The Root Causes & Symptoms Of Thyroid Imbalance.
i have a underactive thyroid.i never take my meds well… ill take them for a few weeks then stop taking them for a few and vice versa. i know it aing good for me i dont know why i do it . a got blood work done the other day and my thyroid level was really high.the symtoms i have been going through is fatigue.nausiousness,my face is tingly and my head feels like its burst like alot of pressure and wierd heart beats could these be signs of not taking my meds right or just something else?
I had a very high TSH level (93.16) and also my potassium was high (not sure what the level was). My doctor said that’s common with hypothyroidism; however, I can only find it common with hyperthyroidism. Any ideas what could cause high potassium levels?
im 17 weeks pregnant and i have an underactive thyroid gland.
will my lovothyroxine tablets harm the baby at all?
I was diafnosed with underactive thyroid and quite a bad case of it, 2 of my aunts have it so I guess its genetically and it got so bad for one of my aunts that her voice deepened and she had to have the gland in her neck removed.
around march 2009 I started to feel weird, like I would walk 6 steps and I would get out of breathe, I would feel weak like if I wrote 2 lines of work from pen to paper my arm would ache, my joins were just so sore, my throat was always sore and my voice started to deepen and its like nothing cured my throat, I gained 30 pounds and my diet didn’t changed,my fingernails were soo brittle and thin and refused to grow, I was missing periods and when I did get them they were 10 days later and superr heavy, I always was catching flus I got one at least once a month, I was always tired and my muscles felt so weak, I use no products in my hair, and never ever use straighteners or curlers or blow dryers and my hair was soooooooooooooooo dry and fell out 24.7, i was losing hair daily and it was like dry straw. and my hands and feet began to become swollen, I looked up at these symptoms and it sounded like underactive thyroid so I had blood work done and it showed I had underactive thyroid and I’m starting medication tomorrow.. but these symptoms are soo hard to live with….
I am just wondering once I go on my pills will all these symptoms go away once I start my pills.. and the random 32 pounds I gained for no reason will that go away cause the doctor said that this did cause me to gain weight as it slowed down my metabolism..
I really am desperate for answers, they will help me so much.
Thank you and God bless.
I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism about a year and a half ago. I have since been trying to find a stable dose of synthyroid with my endocrinologist. He believes that the 100 mg dose I am on now may be suffienct. I only have to see him twice a year now, instead of blood work every 6 weeks and an office visit every three months. I still don’t feel like my old self. I will admit that I feel about 80% better than I did, but the feelings of anxiety and depression are still lingering, worse sometimes than others. I am looking for your experineces with the illness, how you coped with it all, and how long after you were stable on your medication that you felt like your old self again. I have thought this whole time that something more serious is wrong with me, only my doctors can’t find out what it is. Did any of you feel this way? Thanks for the help.
My thryoid levels come back normal, but I have the symptoms of hypothyroidism. I am overweight, cold all the time, have dry skin, feel sluggish, have a "full" feeling in my throat…I desperately want to lose weight but don’t know if that is even a possibility if I have a thyroid problem and my doc won’t treat it because my blood results are normal.
What could I do to lose weight?
My doctor thinks I might have an underactive thyroid, because he was looking at my neck for tonsillitis and noticed my thyroid gland looking odd i guess!! I have a massive fear of getting blood taken, I’ve had it done before, I simply cannot see how I can do it again.
Does anyone know of any other way a person can be diagnosed with underactive thyroid without having blood taken?
many thanks
I’m on eltroxin and my something levels are fine, but i still have all the symptoms, and the eltroxin only cures part of the problem.
I know about desiccated thyroid medicine - and i’ve ordered thyroid-s online. How’s thyroid-s?
and can i take kelp supplements in the meantime?
Thanks =)
Gosh, sorry to hear that!
I won’t be stopping my thyroid meds though.
Hope she’s doing well now.
Basically, I have had quite a few people over the months says that I show signs of a underactive thyroid gland. I am only 20 years old and at university. So as long as it does not affect my university performance im not bothered about it since I have a genuine phobia of needles due to past trauma.
So just to ask is it a bad thing to have or is it liveable with.
Thanks.
I have hypothyroidism and have fairly high hormone levels, which my naturopath has told me will make it difficult, if not impossible to conceive. Has anyone here conceived with hypothyroidism?
I should add: I am not on thyroid medication, other than natural treatments.
**Naturopathic medicine (also known as naturopathy, or natural medicine) is a complementary and alternative medicine which emphasizes the body’s intrinsic ability to heal and maintain itself. Naturopaths prefer to use natural remedies such as herbs and foods rather than surgery or synthetic drugs.
