Can Hashimoto's Cause Hyperthyroidism - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Today we're answering the question of, can Hashimoto's cause hyperthyroidism? Again, this is a lengthy kind of explanation, we're trying to keep these to smaller chunks and segments that don't take up part of your day, whole part of your day. And this is what I've been seeing a lot more of lately, and it seems to be very confusing, in a sense that it used to be you had hypothyroidism, or you had Graves' disease. And nobody even really looked for Hashimoto's. And then Hashimoto's came in, just so it could screw up the whole picture. Because Hashimoto's is like hypothyroid. They call it Hashimoto's hypothyroiditis, if it's inflamed, or Hashimoto's hyperthyroid if it's not. Anyway, so it's hypothyroid. So you get the hypothyroid stuff. And then when you get the hyperthyroid symptoms, especially if you're the unusual Hashimoto's patient, that is thin, that has all hyperthyroid symptoms, and there's no hypothyroid symptoms. Now it gets confusing. So the first go-to is, does this person have Graves' disease? There are different antibodies that you check for that is called thyroid stimulating antibodies. And if you have those, you have Graves' disease. But if you have those, you could also have positive antibodies for Hashimoto's. So, but Graves' disease, if that one marker comes up, you opt for Graves' disease. And then that's a medication to stop the too much hormone from going on, or they radiate it or they take it out. Now, there's this big gray wasteland of hyperthyroidism, I'm hearing the diagnosis more and more. Basically, what is in the literature that causes hyperthyroidism are a few things. Okay, Graves' being one of them. Toxic nodule. Now, so nodules, so you get nodules, and then you test the person, and you feel for the nodules. And if you've got one nodule, or if you've got multi nodules. If it's tender, for sure you want to go get a check to see if it's a cancerous proposition. Most of the time it's not. Thyroid cancer isn't that common, but it happens. People get it. But these nodules, my understanding so far. And here's where I say this. I mean you have to understand that we are in the evolution of understanding all of this stuff. That's why I do these things. Everybody comes in and they think like, "Oh well, you should know all of that, the whole thing." Nobody knows all about the whole thing at this point in time so. And toxic nodules are right up there. Nodules are right up there in the area of nobody knows everything about them right now. So what it appears right now is that you get a nodule, whether it's a toxic one nodule, or whether it's a toxic multinodular, many nodules.

Today what's happening mostly is we're getting them ultrasounded, and then they go, "Oh." If it's a nodule, let's do a biopsy on it. And then we do the biopsy and look at them. And like 99 and nine tenths percents of the time the biopsy comes up with abnormal cells, but not cancer. And so what seems to happen most of the time is that the doctors kind of want to hedge their bets that those abnormal cells don't become cancer. And then usually advise you to take it out or radiate it.

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