I didn't read the article yet, since I opened the comments first... and was shocked by them. I have a thyroid problem, the first symptons started to show up wh

I didn't read the article yet, since I opened the comments first... and was shocked by them. I have a thyroid problem, the first symptons started to show up when I was 13 or 14, including my hair starting to get white. I didn't knew, it was a thyroid problem, my mom, for some reason (that back then offended me, I told her I didn't wanted to go to a "fat people doctor") took me to a endocrinologist, suspecting something was wrong. The endocrinologist made no tests, only said I was fat, and dismissed me. The thing is: according to BMI, I was only slightly overweight, not even really "fat" yet. But I worsened over the years, and became obese, no matter how hard I tried to not to (including having strict diet and going to the gym, and having medical help from cardiologist, physiotherapist and nutrition). A random friend of my mother then commented I had obvious thyroid problems symptons, including a obviously enlarged neck. My mother started to take me to endrocrinologists again... and again, they just kept telling me I was fat, and refusing to help. I ended researching my own problem, figuring on my own what I needed to have tested, and spending lots of money and time looking for a decent endocrionologist. I found one that is half-decent, and started at 25 years old my treatment finally... and only then, the treatment is kinda half-assed, my current endocrinologist mostly don't believe me, and don't really want to help, in fact I ended mostly treating myself by myself, buying whatever medicine I wanted, and informing the medic after the fact (where if I made the right choice, the medic would inform me that I made the right choice, so far I always made the right choice, according to improvement in symptons and blood tests results). I am currently trying to drop my weight until I get obviously "not fat" so I can then save some money, and go to a expensive endocrionologist and hope he will treat me correctly, instead of telling me I am fat. I even tried to go to the most famous endocrinologist in my country, I spent a entire month salary in one single visit, and the guy just told me I was fat and refused to ask for any tests, despite tests being kinda straightforward (I have a autoimmune disease, a test to see if I have anti-thyroid antibodies would already be enough to diagnose me, yet not a single doctor ever wanted to test that, the single one that did, was a doctor that was going to retire, and that I was very "persuasive" in convincing her to ask for the test, that indeed proved I was correct, and indeed I had a huge amount of anti-thyroid antibodies destroying my thyroid).