No Hashimoto's!

I had my six month appointment with my endocrinologist in January.  I had seen him in July on recommendation from my OB/pelvic pain specialist in April.  She had run a million tests on me (pre pelvic pain diagnosis) and found that my thyroglobulin was elevated.  She suggested it might be early stages of Hashimoto's and just told me to go see this doctor.  Like an asshole I forgot to ask him anything about Hashimoto's when I saw him.  I called two weeks after my appointment and they told me the doctor would call me (yeah right).  I had so much else going on that it just got pushed down to the bottom of my list of things I could worry about.  After all, although my thyroid was slightly englarged, all my tests had come back normal and the ultrasound showed nothing abnormal.  He told me to come see him again for a checkup in January.  In the meantime I told my acupuncturist about this and he ran with it.  He told me if I had those antibodies then I had Hashi's, end of story (a lot of his patients have it).  So I started reading up about it and freaking out a little, going on a gluten free diet etc.  For SIX MONTHS I thought I had it.  I was terrified that my stomach problems were being cause by this disease (of which was apparently asymptomatic otherwise) and that I was going to have to deal with this forever.  Well when I saw my endocrinologist I asked him about it and he told me I didn't have it.  I was really shocked and insisted that he pull out the bloodwork I had brought him when I saw him in July.  He told me that 95%--not 100%--but 95% of patients with Hashi's have elevated peroxidase too, which showed normal on the bloodwork I brought him from April as well as the bloodwork he did in July (and now the ones he ran in January as well).  I was so happy I could have danced out of there.  My acupuncturist told me that my endocrinologist is not educated and is old school and that's why he says I don't have Hashi's.

I am going with what my endocrinologist said.  He's got an office at NYU Langone and graduated NYU in the 50's.  I think he has some experience.  Plus he's an ENDOCRINOLOGIST!!!!