Re: What is going on with my body?

July 1, 2005

Hi . I'm really glad that you found us.

Okay... deep breath... ready? Repeat after me:

I AM NOT CRAZY!!!

Okay... now.. we have that settled.

High blood pressure and gall bladder are not uncommon with low thyroid.

Starting at 100 mcg right off the bat could VERY well be too much to start with.

We need to see your labs... Any chance they gave you a copy? I want to see what they tested... well.. we all want to see what they tested... we're nosey that way... looking at your numbers and your symptoms is how we tell how you are doing....

You ran down a whole list of symptoms that are common with low thyroid AND low adrenal... but we'll get into all of those details later...

You're in the right place to learn more about how to take care of things... we'll help you to understand the meds, the lab results... better ways of eating (STOP SOY NOW) and all kinds of other fun stuff. It can get better. I may take a while, but it can get better and most likely will get better.

Give us a brief run down on the types of foods you eat.... Are you a water drinker for the most part or something else? What types of vitamins and/or supplements do you take?

What dose are you taking right now? You need to be on the same dose for at least 4 weeks, better 6 weeks, before getting your next labs done.. you don't want to be bouncing the dose around at all between now and the labs. As for 'jump starting', that comment tells me that the doc doesn't know doodly squat about how thyroid hormone works ESPECIALLY synthetic T4 (Synthroid).

Do you remember the doc talking about thyroid antibodies? The word Hashimoto's? Any of that ring a bell? It's important to find out why your thyroid hormone levels are low.. simply saying hypothyroid don't make it.... we need to know why. Another reason we want to see the labs... to see what they've checked.

I have a bit of reading for you to do.. when you have some time... it's at our website.

First... a bit about hormones and meds and tests and such.... so that you're more familiar with stuff that we are talking about www.thyrophoenix.com/thyroid_101.htm and the other is on how to track your metabolism while this gets figured out www.thyrophoenix.com/self_monitor.htm

You're not alone .... and you're not crazy.... Let's get started, we've got work to do....

Oh, before I forget... boo hooing is allowed here... it's what keeps us sane!!!

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On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:52:27 -0000 "simplistic_fantasia" writes:

My name is I live in ga i am 26 I was told a week ago i have hypothyroidism. After almost a year of feeling ill. They removed my gallbladder because they said that was what was wrong with me. I felt better for a few weeks then it all started again. I went around a around with different dr who would say basically i was nuts or it was just my anxiety. I knew there was something wrong with my body. So i keep pushing. I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome when i was 19. I do not know if there is a link or not. Then my legs started bothering me. they told me i had sciatica and gave me shots in the rear that hurt so bad. but the pain cam back. I have low body temp. which 97.6 have always been normal for me and when it gets to 98.6 i feel like i have a fever. I am tired all the time. I got a divorce because of all this. My ex husband told me I was lazy fat ect. I started to believe I was just lazy and fat. I would not eat sometimes and still gain weight. I got to be 230 when i went to the dr 2 years ago about my legs and he said basicaly I was to fat and it was my circulation, he also checked my cholesterol but i had eatin that morning it was 235 and all the bad was over bad and the good not good enough even though everyone tol dme not to go by that I started changing the way i eat. reduced fat this fat free that soy protien drank more h20 started walking. I am down to 197 now. And I started getting sick in my stomach after I ate stomach would blow up (bloated) gassy ect pain in upper left abdominol region they keep giving me anti biodics too many i think said i had a upper respitory infection then then i went to a different dr who did a nuclear medicine test on my gallbladder and it was not functioning right so I had it removed in jan 2005 that was so awful for me as I do not like dr or hospitals and all that I have not been to the dr so much in my life! I use to never get sick colds nothing rarely and if i did I did not goto dr my body took care of it on its own. I feel like my body has let me down. Well a feww weeks after surgury The pain i felt in the left abdominal region upper where your ribs are under left breast came back sometimes it is fine then other times it looks like to me like it swells up to me and is tender. I continued to have the chills hot flashs aches pains no energy sleepy all the time I thought i was dying honestly I thought there was something in my body so bad and no one would catch it. Then I went back to the dr because of my legs they hurt more and in my calfs in the back and my feet are cold all the time real cold and some other parts of my body too. I had been to the dr so many times (no insurance) and it has cost me and my new husband so much to hear them say they do not see anything or I am just depressed or its my anxienty I started to believe i was going nuts. and my new husband was tired of coming home and i was so tired I had not done anything all day and my saying everyday I did not feel well I mean ladies I would cry and i still do I was a wreck well i still am . I feel like this is going to kill me or I am going to have a hrt attack or stoke I do not know, I have been so sick for so long and my symptoms were so wierd like my hair started falling out so bad! I had such thick thick nice beutiful hair and now it is thinning in the front you can tell and all over it is so thin! Anyway he thought I was nuts too I asked for the thyroid test! just like i asked for the gallbladder test! I mean if I have not learned anything it was to trust myself! well before i got it back i ended up at the er becuse my legs hurt so bad! and when i got there my blood pressure was 137/96 which they said was high I freaked out becuase my bp has always been 120/80 when it has been checked! they said pain and at night your blood pressure rises but I was just freaked out! they drew by blood and told me my thyroid was messed up I do not know the right way to right this but either normal is 4 or that is what i was or 12 is normal or that was me which ever way indicates hypothyroid. he said they one that says its in your body was fine but the other was off or the other way around i can't remember. But me gave me synthroid 100mg. But i knew i had a drs appt in a few days with my new dr so i filled it but did not take it incase my other dr wanted me to take something else. well i went o my re dr june 24th i also had him check to see if I had an ulcer becuz of the pain under left breast area and he checked my cholesterol as well. I was so scared to get my cholesterol checked again. I had tried so hard to get it down. Anyway no ulcer, cholesterol was 198 but my triglcerides were 287 and bad cholesterol was 109 good was 30 I freaked out. but he did not put me on meds for cholesterol. he told me to take the 100 mg i was perscribed to "jump start" my system then switch to the 75mg he priscribed then go back in 6 weeks to have my blood checked again to see if my levels are better. I started taking the 100 mg last saturday june 25 in the morning empty stomach. I did not notice anything to begin with but i had bad insomnia but i have batteled with in somnia for years so i wrote it off. I had a headache everyday but my sinuses have been bothering me and the lack of sleep so i wrote it off again but it continued then i got diareha which could be from my gallbladder removal thing i have had sensitive bowel sense i had them removed then sometimes it feels like my hrt is beating fast or harder then normal i can look down and see my shirt move but that happens to me all the time. I check my hrt rate all the time. 80 is about normal for me resting. well last night I stayed up again til 4a.m i mean in my head i knew i should be tired but I just could not sleep i tossed and turned then I finally went to sleep but all my rest has been restless i wake up almost every hr or a few minutes later thinking it has been hrs LOL took my meds tired to sleep somemore and was restless they finally wen to sleep had to get up a few hrs later though so I am exhausted but i am wide awake go figure. I knew i was sappose to get energy but I mean i have energy to stay up all night but i do not feel like running around or plantig a garden or nothing so i do not know. I called the dr after they opened just to ask and she said the dr said for me to stop the 100 and goto the 75 tommorow. she asked me to count my hrt beats while she watched her watch for 30 sec it was 38 so she said it was perfect. I do not know I have only been on the meds for 7 days and i feel like crap! nothing has happened and the funny thing is all the "bad side effects" from the synthroid are really regular symptoms i have anyway so LOL to that how do you know anyway. I think I should have started on like 50 then went up if i needed too but to late now. and they will not be back til wed cuz of 4th of july if there is a problem so once again i am on my own to over anylize everything LOL oh i am ramblin but I needed to get this off my chest no one understand what i am going through they do not know how scared I am. And all the things I have read on the internet fill me with more dread and worry. And then I see all these people who get on these meds and lose all this weight, feel energy, all back to normal. And i feel that will never be me, as this whole experience has serious;y changed me I use to never worry so much about my health but after so many bad dr and misdiagnoses I do not trust any dr. I do not want to take these meds as they are poisions to me. I am confused scared and angery with my body I already have polycystic ovarian syndrome and all its gross wierd side effects that put me in line for ovarian cancer, hrt problems, stroke ect. I can not concieve a child. now I feel like i am 90 all my aches and pains and complaits i am cold then i am hot then they ask me if i am depressed i ask them would you be? I am 26 i should be so healthy and full of life!!! I know it will take someone special to read all this complaining and boo hooing so thank you and please write to me.

July 1, 2005