Re: second thoughts

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In a message dated 12/22/2004 10:15:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,

bcmc@... writes:

> The ringing ear part is really getting to me,swollen glands will

> not go away is making me anxious.......

>

maybe someone here can help on the ringing ear thing...I know it's been a

problem for lots of folks. but i don't think stopping Armour is the

solution...it

would be the hope for resolution of the problem.

cindi

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Good theory but I still have my adenoids and my tonsils were not removed

until after age 21... and I still have that swollen lympth node..../???

LaCretia>

>I think swollen glands are directly related to tonsil & adenoids being

>removed at a young age. Tell me, just for curiosity sake, did you have

>yours out at a young age (say under 8 years old)? I think the job in the

>immune system for the tonsils (maybe adenoids too) is to catch bacterial

>that is headed down our throats before it can enter the system. With them

>gone, the glands in the neck seem to catch virus & bacterial infections

>more than they should have to otherwise. Just my own little theory, as I

>have swollen gland more than not and I have known friends that HAD tonsils

> & adenoids still that had no problems with theirs.

> *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV

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Speaking of swollen glands, the ones that surround my jaws are giving me

fits over the last few days, especially with the onset of much colder

weather, and I feel like there's a golf ball in the entire throat, but not

on the inside of the throat. It makes me feel like something is being cut

off to my head, as in blood circulation. It's happened before, and I just

hit the aspirin or the ibuprophen or the other one that's now OTC, and it

helps. Then it magically goes away, poof!! Frustrating!!

Re: second thoughts

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> I think you should wait for your test results before changing any thing.

You are still on a pretty low dose of thyroid. It does not correct itself

quickly. Ear ringing is one of the things that seems to hang on forever for

the people that have it. If your tests show you to still be hypo an increase

would be much better than stopping. Hypothyroid WILL ruin your life if not

take it if it is untreated or undertreated. It does not go away, or get

better by itself. I often experience the swollen lymph nodes all around that

area, I really think that is an autoimmune flare up. I take aspirin and more

thyroid and that seems to end it quicker than anything. Hang in there.

> *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV

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Mine is one of the ones whose earringin may be permament. It's been there

since 1998, which included a severe vertigo for several wks. This was the

exact time that I started feeling so bad, gradually into the next 2 yrs

after that. I think that was the " middle beginning " , since I'd already had

known hypo for 5 yrs before that, with seemingly no problems at all, after

starting on Synthroid. Nothing was the same for me, after the ear bout.

Re: second thoughts

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> In a message dated 12/22/2004 6:31:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,

> bcmc@... writes:

>

> > .But I can't get rid of the ringing ear part

>

> from reading the thyroid forums, this does seem to be a hard symptom to

get

> rid of. somebody speculated they might have had permanent ear damage from

the

> hypo that was causing it. I will get the ringing occassionally but not

enough

> to cause me distress.

> Cindi