tendon pain and hypothyroidism

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Hello Group

Does anyone know if there is a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon pain?

Just before I was diagnosed with (and treated for) hypothyroidism I had a spate of tendon problems. I had tennis elbow (both elbows), painful achilles tendons (both heels) and awful pain in the tendons just below both kneecaps.

Since commencing treatment I have had both carpal tunnels operated on and now need an op for cubital tunnel syndrome. I am dreading the cubital tunnel operation as it will take a while to recover.

If there IS a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon problems I would much rather increase my levothyroxthine dose than having the operation. I am currently taking 125mcg/day.

Thankyou

Gwynneth Broxton

PS: I hope you don't think I am whingeing!

==========================================Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the sametime. I think I've forgotten this before.....

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I would advise you to get to try armour and or a combo of sythetic and armour before doing something permanent. TENDON pain and hypo go had in hand. I too am very senstive and have the same problem. When I've taken the right combo long enough, EVERYTHING felt wonderful. No pain. ~E:) Gwynneth Broxton wrote: Hello Group Does anyone know if there is a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon pain? Just before I was diagnosed with (and treated for) hypothyroidism I had a spate of tendon

problems. I had tennis elbow (both elbows), painful achilles tendons (both heels) and awful pain in the tendons just below both kneecaps. Since commencing treatment I have had both carpal tunnels operated on and now need an op for cubital tunnel syndrome. I am dreading the cubital tunnel operation as it will take a while to recover. If there IS a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon problems I would much rather increase my levothyroxthine dose than having the operation. I am currently taking 125mcg/day. Thankyou Gwynneth Broxton PS: I hope you don't think I am

whingeing! ==========================================Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the sametime. I think I've forgotten this before.....

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I would advise you to get to try armour and or a combo of sythetic and armour before doing something permanent. TENDON pain and hypo go had in hand. I too am very senstive and have the same problem. When I've taken the right combo long enough, EVERYTHING felt wonderful. No pain. ~E:) Gwynneth Broxton wrote: Hello Group Does anyone know if there is a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon pain? Just before I was diagnosed with (and treated for) hypothyroidism I had a spate of tendon

problems. I had tennis elbow (both elbows), painful achilles tendons (both heels) and awful pain in the tendons just below both kneecaps. Since commencing treatment I have had both carpal tunnels operated on and now need an op for cubital tunnel syndrome. I am dreading the cubital tunnel operation as it will take a while to recover. If there IS a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon problems I would much rather increase my levothyroxthine dose than having the operation. I am currently taking 125mcg/day. Thankyou Gwynneth Broxton PS: I hope you don't think I am

whingeing! ==========================================Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the sametime. I think I've forgotten this before.....

~EG Connecticut Total-T 16 months ago / 37.5 mg Synthetic/120mg Armour since August 7th

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Hi Gwynneth

I've only been taking Armour for five weeks, but the first hypoT

symptom to disappear for me (and the only one so far!) was the

wrist, knuckle and carpel tunnel pain I had been experiencing. It

disappeared within a week and has so far not returned.

Katy

>

> Hello Group

>

> Does anyone know if there is a connection between hypothyroidism

and tendon pain?

>

> Just before I was diagnosed with (and treated for) hypothyroidism

I had a spate of tendon problems. I had tennis elbow (both elbows),

painful achilles tendons (both heels) and awful pain in the tendons

just below both kneecaps.

>

> Since commencing treatment I have had both carpal tunnels operated

on and now need an op for cubital tunnel syndrome. I am dreading

the cubital tunnel operation as it will take a while to recover.

>

> If there IS a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon

problems I would much rather increase my levothyroxthine dose than

having the operation. I am currently taking 125mcg/day.

>

> Thankyou

>

> Gwynneth Broxton

> PS: I hope you don't think I am whingeing!

>

>

> ==========================================

> Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same

> time. I think I've forgotten this before.....

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Gwynneth

I've only been taking Armour for five weeks, but the first hypoT

symptom to disappear for me (and the only one so far!) was the

wrist, knuckle and carpel tunnel pain I had been experiencing. It

disappeared within a week and has so far not returned.

Katy

>

> Hello Group

>

> Does anyone know if there is a connection between hypothyroidism

and tendon pain?

>

> Just before I was diagnosed with (and treated for) hypothyroidism

I had a spate of tendon problems. I had tennis elbow (both elbows),

painful achilles tendons (both heels) and awful pain in the tendons

just below both kneecaps.

>

> Since commencing treatment I have had both carpal tunnels operated

on and now need an op for cubital tunnel syndrome. I am dreading

the cubital tunnel operation as it will take a while to recover.

>

> If there IS a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon

problems I would much rather increase my levothyroxthine dose than

having the operation. I am currently taking 125mcg/day.

>

> Thankyou

>

> Gwynneth Broxton

> PS: I hope you don't think I am whingeing!

>

>

> ==========================================

> Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same

> time. I think I've forgotten this before.....

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Gwynneth

I've only been taking Armour for five weeks, but the first hypoT

symptom to disappear for me (and the only one so far!) was the

wrist, knuckle and carpel tunnel pain I had been experiencing. It

disappeared within a week and has so far not returned.

Katy

>

> Hello Group

>

> Does anyone know if there is a connection between hypothyroidism

and tendon pain?

>

> Just before I was diagnosed with (and treated for) hypothyroidism

I had a spate of tendon problems. I had tennis elbow (both elbows),

painful achilles tendons (both heels) and awful pain in the tendons

just below both kneecaps.

>

> Since commencing treatment I have had both carpal tunnels operated

on and now need an op for cubital tunnel syndrome. I am dreading

the cubital tunnel operation as it will take a while to recover.

>

> If there IS a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon

problems I would much rather increase my levothyroxthine dose than

having the operation. I am currently taking 125mcg/day.

>

> Thankyou

>

> Gwynneth Broxton

> PS: I hope you don't think I am whingeing!

>

>

> ==========================================

> Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same

> time. I think I've forgotten this before.....

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Gwynneth.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

And just in case you missed it... Yes, low thyroid, long term does cause tendon problems!

I'll do short story.. you want the long one... I'll do it, just ask any body, my posts are LOOOONG.

Had a sore foot at work.. got worse got worse then got worse. Limping badly my boss decided it was a ploy to get easy work so he started giving my crappy stand up/walking work. So he as me at a machine that keeps breaking down, that I can't sit at, and have to walk on the concrete to find a tech every time it goes down.. I was limping so bad by then, put it this way, when I finally hit the floor 20 people got there nearly fast enough to catch me! Everyone was watching me those weeks.

So, off to the doc the next day, diagnosed with Plantar Faciitis. Given a little plastic cup to put in my shoe, told to take Advil every four hours to manage pain, and given a sheet of paper with exercises that were recommended for stretching the tendons and reducing pain.

I was told that it was a physical injury, from being fat, that it was my fault, that it was life long, permanent, no cure, forever pain, for the rest of my life.

I needed crutches to walk... lost the job in a matter of weeks cuz I couldn't do the work, according to the new boss, if I needed crutches.

It hurt standing, sitting, walking. It hurt when I was awake, it hurt in my sleep. It never stopped hurting. For years.

As time passed the stress to the other leg, my hips, my back and my shoulders kicked in. Walking all lopsided on crutches for month after month, year after year was messing up those tendons to.

Nothing I did stopped it. Nothing. No matter how many pills I took... the only thing that helped with the foot was an ice therapy thing I learned after reading up on tendons and how they work.

Ever tried getting a job on crutches? It don't work. Ended up losing insurance and my job over that foot.

So... That was spring of '97, by '98 I was using crutch every time I left the house, by '99 I used them a lot in the house, by 2001 I was using them even to go to the bathroom. It was 2002 when I just couldn't take it anymore. I had no meds, no job, no insurance and lived every minute of every day in pain, and had been for years. Couldn't do anything without hurting the injured tendons. Not even wipe my butt... but the constipation from the hypo made that only a once a month challenge anyway (laughing is okay.... but it was very very real)

So.... July '02, total desperation, couldn't take it anymore.. I ordered my own meds, natural thyroid. Ten years I spent on Synthroid and it ended me up a cripple, for all intents and purposes. By fall I was only using one crutch. By the January computer fair I had a crutch with me but carried it most of the time, used it some walking back to the car. By February I stopped bothering to carry the crutch around with me any more... I was walking fine on my own. I wasn't even up to a one grain dose yet.... One grain is biologically equivalent to only 74 mcg of Synthroid (Levothyroxine or any of the other T4 only synthetics) I wasn't even up that high and my 'life long injury' was gone. I had been on 200 mcg of Synthroid. I had gain 200 pounds, crippled, depressed, a whole laundry list of symptoms and not one doc, NOT ONE, paid any attention to what was going on and just prescribed the same 200 mcg year after year after year.

The aching tendons in shoulders, arms, back, hips and legs was all gone. The foot, that permanent, no cure, life long injury.... all gone.

One of the symptoms of long term low thyroid is Plantar Faciitis... as well as other tendon issues, any area that can be over worked, buzz work repetitive stress, is likely to developed tendon damage.

The difference between Plantar Faciitis, or carpal tunnel or any number of other tendon involvement ailments that are caused by long term low thyroid and physical injury is that those caused by low thyroid go away with you get the RIGHT HORMONE IN THE RIGHT AMOUNT!

Before you let them chop you up anymore.... I would politely and quietly suggest that you make sure that they know what the ........ they are doing. Post your labs for us to see....

We need your levels, and the lab's ranges. The farther back you can go the better. Include the dates and the dosage amounts/changes as they relate to the labs.

Have they given you a diagnosis, a reason why your thyroid levels are low and they prescribed the Levo?

If you are in the same boat that I was in... doesn't getting the proper hormone levels, which you NEED anyway, sound a whole lot better the more surgery? And it's likely that proper hormone levels will have you feeling better in less time than it takes to recover from surgery.

Problem is that the docs won't be able to suck as much money out of you by changing your prescription and getting the thyroid properly managed (whoops... I didn't say that out loud, did I?)

Now... what is a cubital tunnel?

... and you are not whinning.... although whinning is permitted here, even if I don't know how to spell it..... I call them pity parties... easier to spell!!

Oh... Love to share this part... do you know what I use my crutches for now?? I hang home made pasta on them to dry..... they work perfect!!! The rest of the time one of them sits next to my office door, to remind me of how it used to be.

And I just remembered... what got me into the doc that finally diagnosed me was tendonitis in both shoulders.. and thats when I was in thyroid storm.. so the tendon stuff happens on both ends... long term hyper and long term hypo....

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:38:56 -0000 "Gwynneth Broxton" writes:

Hello Group

Does anyone know if there is a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon pain?

Just before I was diagnosed with (and treated for) hypothyroidism I had a spate of tendon problems. I had tennis elbow (both elbows), painful achilles tendons (both heels) and awful pain in the tendons just below both kneecaps.

Since commencing treatment I have had both carpal tunnels operated on and now need an op for cubital tunnel syndrome. I am dreading the cubital tunnel operation as it will take a while to recover.

If there IS a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon problems I would much rather increase my levothyroxthine dose than having the operation. I am currently taking 125mcg/day.

Thankyou

Gwynneth Broxton

PS: I hope you don't think I am whingeing!

[Guest guest]

Hi Gwynneth.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

And just in case you missed it... Yes, low thyroid, long term does cause tendon problems!

I'll do short story.. you want the long one... I'll do it, just ask any body, my posts are LOOOONG.

Had a sore foot at work.. got worse got worse then got worse. Limping badly my boss decided it was a ploy to get easy work so he started giving my crappy stand up/walking work. So he as me at a machine that keeps breaking down, that I can't sit at, and have to walk on the concrete to find a tech every time it goes down.. I was limping so bad by then, put it this way, when I finally hit the floor 20 people got there nearly fast enough to catch me! Everyone was watching me those weeks.

So, off to the doc the next day, diagnosed with Plantar Faciitis. Given a little plastic cup to put in my shoe, told to take Advil every four hours to manage pain, and given a sheet of paper with exercises that were recommended for stretching the tendons and reducing pain.

I was told that it was a physical injury, from being fat, that it was my fault, that it was life long, permanent, no cure, forever pain, for the rest of my life.

I needed crutches to walk... lost the job in a matter of weeks cuz I couldn't do the work, according to the new boss, if I needed crutches.

It hurt standing, sitting, walking. It hurt when I was awake, it hurt in my sleep. It never stopped hurting. For years.

As time passed the stress to the other leg, my hips, my back and my shoulders kicked in. Walking all lopsided on crutches for month after month, year after year was messing up those tendons to.

Nothing I did stopped it. Nothing. No matter how many pills I took... the only thing that helped with the foot was an ice therapy thing I learned after reading up on tendons and how they work.

Ever tried getting a job on crutches? It don't work. Ended up losing insurance and my job over that foot.

So... That was spring of '97, by '98 I was using crutch every time I left the house, by '99 I used them a lot in the house, by 2001 I was using them even to go to the bathroom. It was 2002 when I just couldn't take it anymore. I had no meds, no job, no insurance and lived every minute of every day in pain, and had been for years. Couldn't do anything without hurting the injured tendons. Not even wipe my butt... but the constipation from the hypo made that only a once a month challenge anyway (laughing is okay.... but it was very very real)

So.... July '02, total desperation, couldn't take it anymore.. I ordered my own meds, natural thyroid. Ten years I spent on Synthroid and it ended me up a cripple, for all intents and purposes. By fall I was only using one crutch. By the January computer fair I had a crutch with me but carried it most of the time, used it some walking back to the car. By February I stopped bothering to carry the crutch around with me any more... I was walking fine on my own. I wasn't even up to a one grain dose yet.... One grain is biologically equivalent to only 74 mcg of Synthroid (Levothyroxine or any of the other T4 only synthetics) I wasn't even up that high and my 'life long injury' was gone. I had been on 200 mcg of Synthroid. I had gain 200 pounds, crippled, depressed, a whole laundry list of symptoms and not one doc, NOT ONE, paid any attention to what was going on and just prescribed the same 200 mcg year after year after year.

The aching tendons in shoulders, arms, back, hips and legs was all gone. The foot, that permanent, no cure, life long injury.... all gone.

One of the symptoms of long term low thyroid is Plantar Faciitis... as well as other tendon issues, any area that can be over worked, buzz work repetitive stress, is likely to developed tendon damage.

The difference between Plantar Faciitis, or carpal tunnel or any number of other tendon involvement ailments that are caused by long term low thyroid and physical injury is that those caused by low thyroid go away with you get the RIGHT HORMONE IN THE RIGHT AMOUNT!

Before you let them chop you up anymore.... I would politely and quietly suggest that you make sure that they know what the ........ they are doing. Post your labs for us to see....

We need your levels, and the lab's ranges. The farther back you can go the better. Include the dates and the dosage amounts/changes as they relate to the labs.

Have they given you a diagnosis, a reason why your thyroid levels are low and they prescribed the Levo?

If you are in the same boat that I was in... doesn't getting the proper hormone levels, which you NEED anyway, sound a whole lot better the more surgery? And it's likely that proper hormone levels will have you feeling better in less time than it takes to recover from surgery.

Problem is that the docs won't be able to suck as much money out of you by changing your prescription and getting the thyroid properly managed (whoops... I didn't say that out loud, did I?)

Now... what is a cubital tunnel?

... and you are not whinning.... although whinning is permitted here, even if I don't know how to spell it..... I call them pity parties... easier to spell!!

Oh... Love to share this part... do you know what I use my crutches for now?? I hang home made pasta on them to dry..... they work perfect!!! The rest of the time one of them sits next to my office door, to remind me of how it used to be.

And I just remembered... what got me into the doc that finally diagnosed me was tendonitis in both shoulders.. and thats when I was in thyroid storm.. so the tendon stuff happens on both ends... long term hyper and long term hypo....

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:38:56 -0000 "Gwynneth Broxton" writes:

Hello Group

Does anyone know if there is a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon pain?

Just before I was diagnosed with (and treated for) hypothyroidism I had a spate of tendon problems. I had tennis elbow (both elbows), painful achilles tendons (both heels) and awful pain in the tendons just below both kneecaps.

Since commencing treatment I have had both carpal tunnels operated on and now need an op for cubital tunnel syndrome. I am dreading the cubital tunnel operation as it will take a while to recover.

If there IS a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon problems I would much rather increase my levothyroxthine dose than having the operation. I am currently taking 125mcg/day.

Thankyou

Gwynneth Broxton

PS: I hope you don't think I am whingeing!

[Guest guest]

Hi Gwynneth,

One of the things that I forgot to mention, and I think that it has

since been mentioned to you is:

It is a possiblility that all you need is a higher level of your

currently medicine or a different medicine to help in the elevation

of the pain.

The tests that I mentioned, the Free T4 and Free T3 will give us a

clearer picture as to how your body is doing with your current

dosage.

Gossimer

>

> Hello Group

>

> Does anyone know if there is a connection between hypothyroidism

and tendon pain?

>

> Just before I was diagnosed with (and treated for) hypothyroidism

I had a spate of tendon problems. I had tennis elbow (both elbows),

painful achilles tendons (both heels) and awful pain in the tendons

just below both kneecaps.

>

> Since commencing treatment I have had both carpal tunnels operated

on and now need an op for cubital tunnel syndrome. I am dreading

the cubital tunnel operation as it will take a while to recover.

>

> If there IS a connection between hypothyroidism and tendon

problems I would much rather increase my levothyroxthine dose than

having the operation. I am currently taking 125mcg/day.

>

> Thankyou

>

> Gwynneth Broxton

> PS: I hope you don't think I am whingeing!

>

>

> ==========================================

> Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same

> time. I think I've forgotten this before.....

>