Guest guest Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 To the women who wrote in with questions about cycles, flow, length of periods: you might want to get your thyroid checked. Both hypo- and hyper-thyroid conditions can cause problems with the above. In general, with hypothyroidism, the periods will get closer together and very heavy; with hyperthyroidism, the periods tend to get further apart and scanty. I have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism and mine went from a 32-33 day cycle down to 18...and horribly heavy. With thyroid hormone treatments, that has eased considerably...but now I'm edging back to the short, heavy cycles. One of my cousins had Graves' Disease and she followed the far apart, scanty scenario. Of course, there always can be exceptions to this! Something I've found out from the thyroid list is that the guidelines for TSH have been lowered, from a range of, say, .5 to 5.7 or so to a range of .3 to 3. These recommendations came out in late 2002 or early 2003; most doctors seem to be using the old ranges, sad to say. Wisconsin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 Thanks to all who replied to my question... john, I will look into the thyroid condition with my doc on Monday. I would think, tho, that with hyperthyroidism I'd be losing weight--which hasn't been happening. Do you know if this is true? I'm concerned that my off-kilter hormones are either masking pregnancy, or my fibroids have grown to interfere with my ovaries-- stopping ovulation & therefore periods. Hopefully we'll figure this out. Thankgs again. -liz Michigan > To the women who wrote in with questions about cycles, flow, length of periods: you might want to get your thyroid checked. > > Both hypo- and hyper-thyroid conditions can cause problems with the above. In general, with hypothyroidism, the periods will get closer together and very heavy; with hyperthyroidism, the periods tend to get further apart and scanty. > > I have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism and mine went from a 32-33 day cycle down to 18...and horribly heavy. With thyroid hormone treatments, that has eased considerably...but now I'm edging back to the short, heavy cycles. > > One of my cousins had Graves' Disease and she followed the far apart, scanty scenario. > > Of course, there always can be exceptions to this! > > Something I've found out from the thyroid list is that the guidelines for TSH have been lowered, from a range of, say, .5 to 5.7 or so to a range of .3 to 3. These recommendations came out in late 2002 or early 2003; most doctors seem to be using the old ranges, sad to say. > > > Wisconsin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 Thanks to all who replied to my question... john, I will look into the thyroid condition with my doc on Monday. I would think, tho, that with hyperthyroidism I'd be losing weight--which hasn't been happening. Do you know if this is true? I'm concerned that my off-kilter hormones are either masking pregnancy, or my fibroids have grown to interfere with my ovaries-- stopping ovulation & therefore periods. Hopefully we'll figure this out. Thankgs again. -liz Michigan > To the women who wrote in with questions about cycles, flow, length of periods: you might want to get your thyroid checked. > > Both hypo- and hyper-thyroid conditions can cause problems with the above. In general, with hypothyroidism, the periods will get closer together and very heavy; with hyperthyroidism, the periods tend to get further apart and scanty. > > I have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism and mine went from a 32-33 day cycle down to 18...and horribly heavy. With thyroid hormone treatments, that has eased considerably...but now I'm edging back to the short, heavy cycles. > > One of my cousins had Graves' Disease and she followed the far apart, scanty scenario. > > Of course, there always can be exceptions to this! > > Something I've found out from the thyroid list is that the guidelines for TSH have been lowered, from a range of, say, .5 to 5.7 or so to a range of .3 to 3. These recommendations came out in late 2002 or early 2003; most doctors seem to be using the old ranges, sad to say. > > > Wisconsin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 Thanks to all who replied to my question... john, I will look into the thyroid condition with my doc on Monday. I would think, tho, that with hyperthyroidism I'd be losing weight--which hasn't been happening. Do you know if this is true? I'm concerned that my off-kilter hormones are either masking pregnancy, or my fibroids have grown to interfere with my ovaries-- stopping ovulation & therefore periods. Hopefully we'll figure this out. Thankgs again. -liz Michigan > To the women who wrote in with questions about cycles, flow, length of periods: you might want to get your thyroid checked. > > Both hypo- and hyper-thyroid conditions can cause problems with the above. In general, with hypothyroidism, the periods will get closer together and very heavy; with hyperthyroidism, the periods tend to get further apart and scanty. > > I have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism and mine went from a 32-33 day cycle down to 18...and horribly heavy. With thyroid hormone treatments, that has eased considerably...but now I'm edging back to the short, heavy cycles. > > One of my cousins had Graves' Disease and she followed the far apart, scanty scenario. > > Of course, there always can be exceptions to this! > > Something I've found out from the thyroid list is that the guidelines for TSH have been lowered, from a range of, say, .5 to 5.7 or so to a range of .3 to 3. These recommendations came out in late 2002 or early 2003; most doctors seem to be using the old ranges, sad to say. > > > Wisconsin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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