Hallie Abrams was a year into menopause on HRT when a nutritionist found abnormal lab markers her GP had missed. Imaging revealed thyroid nodules, but her endocrinologist said to wait. Her thyroid marker was 750 versus a normal of 50, yet the doctor offered no plan to lower it.
About a year ago, when I supposedly had fully transitioned into menopause and was on HRT, I was like, something's gotta give. Like, this is not sustainable. And that's when I started searching. And I actually started with a nutritionist dietitian, not you. I didn't know you were doing that at this point in my life. And that did really help in the journey because they gave me markers in my labs to ask my regular general practitioner for. So then my GP had me go and get a scan I had nodes, nodules on my thyroid. And then I went to an endocrinologist and she was like, yeah, like there's nothing we can do because your other numbers are fine. I'm like, but this number, I mean, again, I'm not a doctor and I'm not a scientist. If it's supposed to be 50 and it's like 750, doesn't that mean my body is attacking my own thyroid? And she's like, yeah. I'm like, okay, so what are we gonna do about it? And she's like, there's not really anything to do about it until it does. And I'm like, but if somebody was smoking and they like had a thing of lung cancer, that heart disease, you'd tell them to stop smoking, right? And she's like, yeah. I'm like, so what am I doing that's making this number high so we can correct it?
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