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Macrocephaly (large head and still growing) (images)

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I'm 25 years old male and I am very concerned about my large head, especially because it seems that it is still growing in my age. I was born with large head, but I'd expect that head would grow till the end of puberty (18-20th year) and not in my mid 20's, when growing should be fully stopped. It's true that on my father's side family they have a bit bigger heads, but nobody had a size of mine, neither it was shaped like my upper part of head is swelling , which looks like I have a big dome on my  top of head. Also during last two years my mandible grew, it became more wide, thicker, robust and square shaped, my face grew in general, becoming more protruding, longer, flat and more dull-looking.Also upper lip got more thickened and my eye lids dropped, especially lower eye lids, whole face lost definition and became more massive and chubby.Besides my right part of head seems to had grown more and also left eye seem to drop below the line of the other one, causing more facial asymmetry. Also one one started to point in it's own direction a bit.
What could be wrong?I visited my GP and he doesn't take my problem seriously. We discussed acromegaly and gigantism, yet he didn't want to appoint me to specialist.
P.s. sorry for my English
Symptoms, signs and other already diagnosed diseases:
-178cm, 65kg, under-weighted
-weak, tiny frame (15.5cm/6inch wrists), narrow shoulders
-tiny arms and fingers
-generally underdeveloped body  
-delayed development, as stated by parents

-asthma (suppressed)
-Hyperthyroidism in sub-clinical phase (hashimoto) – did 2 tests over last year and TSH was normal
-mild allergy to dust, grass, mites
-irritable bowel syndrome
-mentally probably a bit lacking of full development

-feeling tired, without energy and will
-anti social
-very, very shy
-depression
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1756321 tn?1547095325
I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis and symptoms with "normal" TSH as it rose slowly in the range over 4 years. It wasn't my normal though which is around 1.5mU/L.

I had numerous symptoms of hypothyroidism but included symptoms you list such as fatigue, mild depression (compared to severe vitamin B12 deficiency) thickened lips and nose (due to myxedema - build up of mucopolysaccharides in the subcutaneous tissues of the skin), ptosis (eye drooping for one eye only in my case), dull facial expression, moon face/puffy face (due to fluid retention).

The antisocial behaviour/shy/depression issues were a few of my many symptoms of vitamin B12 malabsorption (I have autoimmune pernicious anaemia) but any cause of low serotonin will cause these symptoms (posted more info about serotonin deficiency on the link below). My face has fallen slightly on one side due to vitamin B12 deficiency damaging cranial nerves.  The top three deficiency states with hypothyroidism are iron, vitamin D and vitamin B12.

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Neurology/Making-myself-crazy/show/1812980
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707563 tn?1626361905
Hi -

Animations/gifs don't work in posts on our site. Sorry about that!

Emily
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I posted animation of head growth, but it doesn't seem to work, neither I can edit it.
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