Re: HELP!!!!

[Guest guest]

I was dx with Hashi's 5 years ago. At first, I didn't understand why people made such a big deal about it. I wasn't happy about it, but I felt fine. Nothing was too different. After that I lost a baby, had a baby, and lost another one. In the past two years I've felt increasingly worse, though I still function through my day. Some days are worse than others.

I understand your confusion as to symptoms. I've investigated PCOS, estrogen dominance, and several other problems. Which I may have some of, but maybe my thyroid is behind it all. Every time I would mention my symptoms online, people would tell me to get checked for being hypo. But, I would confidently tell them that I was already being treated.

Now, I'm thinking maybe I wasn't properly treated. Having my last baby seemed throw me into a spin emotionally and physically. I'm trying to lose weight, trying to have another baby, and trying to live well. But something just isn't right. I keep telling people it's as if right after birth, someone put ME in someone else's body. I can't explain it the right way, but this isn't what I'm used to!

I also lost half my hair. I've had dermatologists look at it, tell me it's female pattern baldness, tell me it's male pattern baldness, tell me they don't know what it is. Because I do have a sister who is also losing some hair, I am a bit afraid to hope I can blame it all on my thyroid and expect a turn around. I'm a bit afraid to hope any of my symptoms will go away, because in two years I've not found anything that worked (metformin, vitamins, progesterone cream, cutting down on carbs). I'm afraid to hope too much that this is the answer. But it's certainly worth trying.

I am beginning by treating my adrenals for fatigue. And I've switched from levoxyl to Armour. I am praying and hoping, that 6 mo from now, I will feel myself again, and many of my nagging symptoms will have gone away.

You aren't crazy. I know now why so many people complained about grinding through life with Hashi's. I feel the same way. I understand your fears of other diseases or problems, and of not being sure you'll ever feel good again.

[Guest guest]

I was dx with Hashi's 5 years ago. At first, I didn't understand why people made such a big deal about it. I wasn't happy about it, but I felt fine. Nothing was too different. After that I lost a baby, had a baby, and lost another one. In the past two years I've felt increasingly worse, though I still function through my day. Some days are worse than others.

I understand your confusion as to symptoms. I've investigated PCOS, estrogen dominance, and several other problems. Which I may have some of, but maybe my thyroid is behind it all. Every time I would mention my symptoms online, people would tell me to get checked for being hypo. But, I would confidently tell them that I was already being treated.

Now, I'm thinking maybe I wasn't properly treated. Having my last baby seemed throw me into a spin emotionally and physically. I'm trying to lose weight, trying to have another baby, and trying to live well. But something just isn't right. I keep telling people it's as if right after birth, someone put ME in someone else's body. I can't explain it the right way, but this isn't what I'm used to!

I also lost half my hair. I've had dermatologists look at it, tell me it's female pattern baldness, tell me it's male pattern baldness, tell me they don't know what it is. Because I do have a sister who is also losing some hair, I am a bit afraid to hope I can blame it all on my thyroid and expect a turn around. I'm a bit afraid to hope any of my symptoms will go away, because in two years I've not found anything that worked (metformin, vitamins, progesterone cream, cutting down on carbs). I'm afraid to hope too much that this is the answer. But it's certainly worth trying.

I am beginning by treating my adrenals for fatigue. And I've switched from levoxyl to Armour. I am praying and hoping, that 6 mo from now, I will feel myself again, and many of my nagging symptoms will have gone away.

You aren't crazy. I know now why so many people complained about grinding through life with Hashi's. I feel the same way. I understand your fears of other diseases or problems, and of not being sure you'll ever feel good again.

[Guest guest]

Yes, I know these feelings very well! What I finally came to realize, after all the research over the past 3 yrs or so (because I wanted to be sure about it all), is that the thyroid regulates all these other body systems, so what's being called a disease in another body part is usually actually stemming from chronic untreated/undertreated thyroid disease. The female hormones, the male hormones, the cortisol, the cholesterols, the heart, the intestines, all of it-----all are regulated by thyroid function. It's really hard to accept that one body part could be so powerful and have such a powerful influence. It is also hard for ME to accept that I could have some permanent damage on acct of noone knew what they were doing when treating it. This is not a defeatist's attitude, it is a realistic attitude. I can't accept the fact that we were intended to have this as a part of "aging" because I know too many people much older than me (53) who are out jogging every single day. Think about this----If we were intended to age in this manner, how come human beings used to live to be 900 or more yrs old (Adam, Methusalah?). We've messed up something here, and I say that the thyroid is one of a handful of things, that are the only things that could possibly be responsible. The rest of the handful of things are body parts that depend totally on the thyroid to operate correctly. This is how I know it's still thyroid problems. Some things take a very long time to correct and depend strongly on how long it's been there, what happened to that body part during that time (permanent stenosis of the inner ear parts or urethra maybe, plus some other body parts like this? Sometimes they can finish being corrected with surgery, sometimes not), and what the problem is. I've had tinnitus (earringing) that's been there since 1998, but it has not gone away with Armour or any other treatment. Maybe that's coming, but I have no idea if it's permanent damage or not. I feel better in some ways, some ways not. I know that I don't have that horrible depression that I had, although sometimes I have a very slight anxiety, but perhaps I'm also very tired of my job and need to move on. I always did get anxiety when I needed to take action but either couldn't or wouldn't. This type of personality is VERY prone to adrenal fatigue, so I have to look at that too, and take it with a grain of salt (as I've learned to do with many things), since I won't treat that ever again without testing first. One day I will test for that. There are probably several things I feel I need to test for, but they all come back to autoimmune disease, since we're all prone to have others, if we have one, and I don't have an endless supply of money to do this with.

Re: HELP!!!!

I was dx with Hashi's 5 years ago. At first, I didn't understand why people made such a big deal about it. I wasn't happy about it, but I felt fine. Nothing was too different. After that I lost a baby, had a baby, and lost another one. In the past two years I've felt increasingly worse, though I still function through my day. Some days are worse than others.

I understand your confusion as to symptoms. I've investigated PCOS, estrogen dominance, and several other problems. Which I may have some of, but maybe my thyroid is behind it all. Every time I would mention my symptoms online, people would tell me to get checked for being hypo. But, I would confidently tell them that I was already being treated.

Now, I'm thinking maybe I wasn't properly treated. Having my last baby seemed throw me into a spin emotionally and physically. I'm trying to lose weight, trying to have another baby, and trying to live well. But something just isn't right. I keep telling people it's as if right after birth, someone put ME in someone else's body. I can't explain it the right way, but this isn't what I'm used to!

I also lost half my hair. I've had dermatologists look at it, tell me it's female pattern baldness, tell me it's male pattern baldness, tell me they don't know what it is. Because I do have a sister who is also losing some hair, I am a bit afraid to hope I can blame it all on my thyroid and expect a turn around. I'm a bit afraid to hope any of my symptoms will go away, because in two years I've not found anything that worked (metformin, vitamins, progesterone cream, cutting down on carbs). I'm afraid to hope too much that this is the answer. But it's certainly worth trying.

I am beginning by treating my adrenals for fatigue. And I've switched from levoxyl to Armour. I am praying and hoping, that 6 mo from now, I will feel myself again, and many of my nagging symptoms will have gone away.

You aren't crazy. I know now why so many people complained about grinding through life with Hashi's. I feel the same way. I understand your fears of other diseases or problems, and of not being sure you'll ever feel good again.