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extra shitty doctors that only checked tsh- mine has never looked particularly bad and depending on when blood work was done it was a moving target
my GP of all people took me seriously and said fuck my ins and ordered blood work every other week for like 8 weeks
by that point a visible lump showed up - now I have a sweet scar (its super faded now) that looks like someone tried to give me an italian neck tie
my lesson in all that is- I trust me, and fuck any dr who disagrees.
here's another weird one for you- my hip has hurt off and on for years- there's not a damn thing wrong with it- but I mysteriously have a small tumor near the greater trochanter- it seems benign, I get regular MRIs of it....the pain in my hip radiates from it. My genuinely super dense bones saved me from having the head of the femur cut off and replaced (hip replacement) because its is in a spot for fracture risk- my dr said "keep lifting heavy things" instead.