Guest guest Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Hi Everyone Although I am doing well - feeling well ect. there are still one or two areas where I am not improving and wonder if there is anybody else who has these problems. I have VERY dry skin, especially on lower legs and arms. Flaky and they feel like sandpaper. I have many brown 'liver' marks just on my arms, which are growing daily. These marks vary in size, some patches half an inch down to little freckles. I am developing puffy eyes (underneath) - I am beginning to look so tired all the time, but I don't feel tired. I have lost a lot of cranial hair (and other areas) but this is still coming out and Armour has made no difference whatsoever. Hopefully, there is somebody who will be able to tell me how I can address these odd little annoying problems please.. Luv - Sheila Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Hi Sheila, First want to say I'm sorry I've not been back in touch, after the birth of my sis-in-law's baby, my uncle then died, so I've been with my family loads & not had chance to call. It was great to chat with you though. Sorry to hear you're having a few problems. Have you considered using grape seed oil or sunflower oil and massaging into your skin after showering? Or using extra olive oil in food or taking oil of evening primrose capsules? I know these suggestions are only a quick fix really, but I can't think of what else could be the problem. Are you drinking enough water? Is your washing powder non-biological? This might help too. Can't think of anything about your eyes, or the liver spots really - cold water for the eyes, or eye gel, or rest cucumber slices on the eyes in the morning? For your hair, what about supplementing with folic acid? Since I've been taking folic acid for trying to get pregnant my nails are lovely & my hair's very good too (bushy & healthy). I take pregnacare which contains a range of stuff including folic acid. This is all off the top of my head - hope there may be something in it all. Do you think you may need to increase your meds? Fee x x x > I have VERY dry skin, especially on lower legs and arms. Flaky and they feel like sandpaper. > > I have many brown 'liver' marks just on my arms, which are growing daily. These marks vary in size, some patches half an inch down to little freckles. > > I am developing puffy eyes (underneath) - I am beginning to look so tired all the time, but I don't feel tired. > > I have lost a lot of cranial hair (and other areas) but this is still coming out and Armour has made no difference whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Hi Sheila Check out this attachment of a table comparing thyroid/adrenal/mixed symptoms - all the things you are experiencing are in here. http://www.drrind.com/symptoms.asp Maybe you need to go for adrenal support & increase your meds as you have done. I'm doing much better on 4 grains already. Fee x x x (keeping up the good fight! trying to get my mum to switch over to Armour & get my Aunt treated too and still trying to figure out a way to make public the thyroid scandal) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Sheila, I'll run this by you so that you can ponder it... When we're hypo we don't shed skin like we're supposed to so we end up with thicker, rougher skin. When you start getting your thyroid levels up the skin starts trying to get it's act in gear and speeds up growth and needs to slough off the dead skin... I was without meds (and have no working thyroid - was killed by RAI) for three years and my skin got horrid, it was so thick I didnt' even get any paper cuts, to feel, you'd see the slice in the skin, but it never got to the nerves.... Anyway when I started taking adrenal glandular and then a month later started on DHEA I started to itch... a LOT... It was driving me nuts, the itching was 'under the skin' and I would just 'dig' to get at the itch.... As time passed the skin started flaking off, all dead and dry, I actually left little piles of it when I was having a scratch fest.... Now.... the itching has all stopped and I have 'normal' skin again. It's soft and natural looking, even the horribly bad parts on my feet and elbows. I did nothing special.. just concentrated on helping all that old dead skin to slough off by using a fluff when in the shower and a coarse towel when drying. I'm still doing both of those things to keep my skin stimulated, along with skin brushing, I'm trying to increase the elasticity at this point so that it will shrink as a continue to lose weight. Just wanted to give you something to consider as a possibility. I may be way off... but... the share thing.... *smile* The liver spots, if they are what I am thinking. I've read that that is an indication of adrenal issues. I'm not sure about that, though, since I only saw it in one source and they didn't have any pictures. I started getting them, freckle sized, mostly on my arms, near the inside of the elbow.. Since I've been on natural thyroid, about 18 months, and adrenal supps (12 months) I've gotten no new ones! So, something is shifting, to have no more new ones coming. Topper () Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Hi Sheila, Re: the hair loss. Have you had a ferritin level done? After all the research I did after I got my results back (I'm pretty low), low ferritin with hair loss seemed to pop up quite frequently. I've considered myself extremely lucky in the hair/nail department with regard to my hypo. Mine grow(s) like weeds. This is probably highly genetic for me. But had several other low ferritin symptoms. The puffy eyes are edema, like what one would have in the feet and ankles. I had it pretty bad before taking Armour. Never took anything for adrenal supps. But it has improved quite a bit. My cortisol level has come down some, too, so it's probably a mixture of adrenal/hypoT, but I tend to think it's more adrenal hyperfunction. I.e. Too much cortisol. Aldosterone is also adrenal and this affects fluid balance. I also have A LOT of those liver spots and they seem to keep coming. I THOUGHT I read somewhere that this is a hypercortisol issue but can't find the link I had on it. Will keep looking for it and pass it along to you when I find it. But do some reading on ferritin. Iron is pretty important to overall health, stability. Hope this helps! Janet -- In NaturalThyroidHormones , " Sheila " <sheila.turner@l...> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Although I am doing well - feeling well ect. there are still one or two areas where I am not improving and wonder if there is anybody else who has these problems. > > I have VERY dry skin, especially on lower legs and arms. Flaky and they feel like sandpaper. > > I have many brown 'liver' marks just on my arms, which are growing daily. These marks vary in size, some patches half an inch down to little freckles. > > I am developing puffy eyes (underneath) - I am beginning to look so tired all the time, but I don't feel tired. > > I have lost a lot of cranial hair (and other areas) but this is still coming out and Armour has made no difference whatsoever. > > Hopefully, there is somebody who will be able to tell me how I can address these odd little annoying problems please.. > > Luv - Sheila > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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