Gosh, Edna. What an ordeal. I hope your new endo is able to help. As for not trusting everything you read on the Internet: I get that, and I try to keep that in mind as I'm reading. But I find the kind of general information found at a site like Mayo to be fairly useless when it comes to understanding anything but the basics. It offers very little guidance on the nuts and bolts of managing thyroid disease.