Re: Fw: Ovarian cysts caused by hypothyroidism

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I have recently lost 50lbs, and still have 20lbs to go. Because of my weight

loss, I have had to reduce from 4 grains of Armour to 3 grains because I was

having minor hyper symptoms, and my bloodwork showed I was hyper. The reduction

from 4 grains to 3 made me hypo again - very quickly, even though I titrated

slowly down. I have increased to 3-1/2 grains to meet in the middle and see if

that will help, but not without noticing that after 2 years of being on therapy,

I can tell I have ovarian cysts again. I don't know if it's from my hormones

adjusting to the weight loss, or because I was hypo, or both. Very interesting

read!

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> Multiple Ovarian Cysts as

> a Major Symptom of Hypothyroidism

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> The case I describe below is of importance to women with polycystic ovaries.

If

> they have evidence, such as a high TSH, that conventional clinicians accept as

> evidence of hypothyroidism, they may fair well. But the TSH is not a valid

gauge

> of a woman's tissue thyroid status. Because of this, she may fair best by

> adopting self-directed care. At any rate, for women with ovarian cysts, this

> case is one of extreme importance.

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> In 2008, doctors at the gynecology department in Gunma, Japan reported the

case

> of a 21-year-old women with primary hypothyroidism. Her doctor referred her to

> the gynecology department because she had  abdominal pain and her abdomen

was

> distended up to the level of her navel.

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> At the gynecology clinic she underwent an abdominal ultrasound and CT scan.

> These imaging procedures showed multiple cysts on both her right and her left

> ovary.

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> The woman's cholesterol level and liver function were increased. She also had

a

> high level of the muscle enzyme (creatine phosphokinase) that's often high in

> hypothyroidism. Blood testing also showed that the woman had primary

> hypothyroidism from autoimmune thyroiditis.

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> It is noteworthy that the young woman's ovarian cysts completely disappeared

> soon after she began thyroid hormone therapy. Other researchers have reported

> girls with primary hypothyroidism whose main health problems were ovarian

cysts

> or precocious puberty. But this appears to be the first case in which a young

> adult female had ovarian cysts that resulted from autoimmune-induced

> hypothyroidism.

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> The researchers cautioned clinicians: " To avoid inadvertent surgery to remove

an

> ovarian tumor, it is essential that a patient with multiple ovarian cysts and

> hypothyroidism be properly managed, as the simple replacement of a thyroid

> hormone could resolve the ovarian cysts. " [1]

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> Reference:

> 1. Kubota, K., Itho, M., Kishi, H., et al.: Primary hypothyroidism presenting

as

> multiple ovarian cysts in an adult woman: a case report. Gynecol. Endocrinol.,

> 24(10):586-589, 2008. Does Taking Desiccated Thyroid Cause or Worsen

Autoimmune

> Thyroid Disease?

>  Fairly often, someone asks me whether taking desiccated thyroid is likely

cause

> or worsen autoimmune thyroid disease. A few of these people have become

> concerned because of a rabbit study they've heard about.

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> I've read summaries of this study, and typically the summaries state: " Rabbits

> developed autoimmune thyroid disease after being injected with thyroid extract

> from other rabbits. "

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> After reading these summaries, some people understandably asked, " The rabbit

> developed autoimmune thyroid disease after being exposed to thyroid extract.

> Doesn't this mean that if I expose myself to thyroid extract in desiccated

> thyroid, it can cause me autoimmune thyroid disease in me? Some people who

> already had high thyroglobulin or peroxidase antibodies asked, isn't

desiccated

> thyroid likely to stoked up these antibodies in me?

> In the studies these people mention, the researchers did inject rabbits with

> extracts of rabbit thyroid glands. And the injections led to anti-thyroid

> antibodies in the injected rabbits and damage to their thyroid glands.

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> However, the injections also included saline (salt) and another substance

called

> " Freund's adjuvant. " [4,p.1295] The importance of this latter ingredient is

that

> it's a powerful booster of the immune response to antigenic stimuli.

Laboratory

> researchers use it to augment antibody responses to antigens that might

> otherwise provoke only faint antibody reactions. The adjuvant is severely

toxic.

> Researchers are banned from using it in humans, and they use it sparingly in

> laboratory animals.

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> Because the rabbit thyroid extract was mixed with saline and Freund's

adjuvant,

> I'm curious as to whether the injected thyroid extracts alone would have

> provoked antibodies against thyroglobulin. Maybe it would not have.

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> However, there's also another important consideration. I've talked with people

> from the companies that manufacture desiccated thyroid products, and they've

> told me that they don't measure the amount of the proteins thyroglobulin and

> peroxidase in the thyroid powder they use in their products.

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> Nonetheless, the important point is that the thyroglobulin and peroxidase in

> desiccated thyroid are proteins. Ingesting these proteins may not increase

> antibody activity for this reason-protein-digesting enzymes in the GI tract

are

> likely to decompose the proteins into amino acids. And although the amino

acids

> may then absorb into the body, they aren't likely to recompose themselves into

> proteins that function as antigens to stoke up antibody reactions against

them. 

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> I know of only one study in which researchers actually tested the hypothesis

> that desiccated thyroid might affect patients' autoimmune thyroid disease. The

> researchers switched patients with the disease from synthetic T4 to desiccated

> thyroid for a year. Other patients continued to use synthetic T4. At the end

of

> the year, the two groups of patients did not differ in measures of autoimmune

> thyroid disease; desiccated thyroid had not worsened any immune measures.[5]

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> To answer this oft asked question, then, ingesting desiccated thyroid is not

> likely to cause or worsen autoimmune thyroiditis.

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> References

> 1. Witebsky, E. and Rose, N.R.: Studies on organ specificity. IV. Production

of

> rabbit thyroid antibodies in the rabbit. J. Immunol., 76, 408, 1956.

> 2. Witesky,k E., Rose, N.R., Terplan, K., et al.: Chronic thyroiditis and

> autoimmunization J. Am. Med. Assn., 164:1439-1447, 1957.

> 3. Rose, N.R.: Experimental autoimmune thyroiditis. Citation Classic, Feb.11,

> No.6, 1991.

> 4. Weetman, A.P.: Thyroid autoimmune disease. In Werner's The Thyroid: A

> Fundamental and Clinical Text, 6th edition. Edited by L.E. Braverman and

> R.D.Utiger, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1991, pp.1295-1310.

> 5. Lee, S., Scherberg, N., and DeGroot, L.J.: Induction of oral tolerance in

> human autoimmune thyroid disease. Thyroid, 8(3):229-234, 1998.

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