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Believe it or not...you wouldn't believe how difficult it is for a nurse to go into the hospital as a patient. If the doc can't figure out what is wrong with you--it is only because you found a way to fool them. Anyway...this nurse kept passing out. She passed out at work. We took her blood sugar and it was verrrryyyyy low. They admitted her and our endocrinologist saw her. He was "convinced" that she brought on these symptoms herself (because she was a nurse). He sent her down for x-rays and ordered us to search her hospital room for a hidden bottle of insulin (which he was convinced that she was using to bring her blood sugar down). We didn't find one. He couldn't figure out the rest...so he ordered a psychiatric consult. The psychiatrist asked her if she was doing this to herself for attention. That was the last straw. After tendering her resignation from her hospital bed, she then checked out AMA (against medical advice). She drove down to Galveston to John Sealy. She didn't tell them she was a nurse. Within 24 hours, she had a diagnosis of Hashimoto's. Point of story is...I think it is not the first thing they look at which in essence makes it difficult to diagnose. As a result of the Hashimoto's, the thyroid gland becomes unable to produce enough hormones (which is hypothyroidism). So chances are, if you now had hypothyroidism, it was a direct result of the Hashimotos. However, most of the time Hashimoto's isn't detected until the hypothyroidism is detected.
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