Re: [enzymes]Kathleen/was: Thyroid problems/?

[Guest guest]

Could be. Better test is to take his temps 3-4 times throughout the day,

say at 9am then noon, then 3pm then at 6pm. He should have temps at about

98.4 or higher.

If he passes that test, take his temp first thing before he gets up (we

could never do this, can't remember how old Ben is, but ours is little, and

this was not going to happen)

As you may remember, the only symptom we had was dry skin, but her temps

were between 96.7 and 97.1, brrrr. Now with the Armour, they sit squarely

at 98.5-98.6, throughout the day.

Good luck,

Thyroid problems/?

>I haven't had a chance yet to consult 's pediatrician regarding his

>thyroid problems,

> but I have a new reason for wondering about them. He's just had his third

> swimming lesson

> at the Y--outdoor pool, water temp in the mid-70s and air temp in the

> mid-90s. The other

> children seem to be comfortable but by about 2/3 through the half-hour

> lesson is

> sitting on the steps not just shivering but with his teeth chattering,

> complaining of the cold.

> Is this just his excessive anxiety? He doesn't seem to be afraid of the

> water or the teacher,

> Andy, who is pretty good with him. It looks more like hypothyroid to me.

>

> Peace,

> Kathy E.

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[Guest guest]

Btw, know you know this, but do not use a mercury thermometer, we invested

in a good ear thermometer, tested it just once with a mercury thermometer to

see if it was accurate and then put the mercury thermometer at the back of

the highest shelf we have.

Thyroid problems/?

>

>

>>I haven't had a chance yet to consult 's pediatrician regarding

>>his

>>thyroid problems,

>> but I have a new reason for wondering about them. He's just had his

>> third

>> swimming lesson

>> at the Y--outdoor pool, water temp in the mid-70s and air temp in the

>> mid-90s. The other

>> children seem to be comfortable but by about 2/3 through the half-hour

>> lesson is

>> sitting on the steps not just shivering but with his teeth chattering,

>> complaining of the cold.

>> Is this just his excessive anxiety? He doesn't seem to be afraid of the

>> water or the teacher,

>> Andy, who is pretty good with him. It looks more like hypothyroid to me.

>>

>> Peace,

>> Kathy E.

>>

>>

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[Guest guest]

I guess I should do it systematically as you suggest, but I do already know that

unless he

is sick with a fever, his temp runs in the 96-97 range. Mine even on Armour

thyroid and

with a TSH of 1.0 is always 97.4 unless I am sick. But I feel well and would not

want to take

more...would cause tachycardia and diarrhea, I take 1 60 mg Armour thyroid

tablet/day

and have been on it since the 80s...except for one horrible period when a doctor

switched

me to Synthroid. Funny, that's when I had to retire, too.

Peace,

Kathy E.

>

> Could be. Better test is to take his temps 3-4 times throughout the day,

> say at 9am then noon, then 3pm then at 6pm. He should have temps at about

> 98.4 or higher.

>

> If he passes that test, take his temp first thing before he gets up (we

> could never do this, can't remember how old Ben is, but ours is little, and

> this was not going to happen)

>

> As you may remember, the only symptom we had was dry skin, but her temps

> were between 96.7 and 97.1, brrrr. Now with the Armour, they sit squarely

> at 98.5-98.6, throughout the day.

>

> Good luck,

>

> Thyroid problems/?

>

>

> >I haven't had a chance yet to consult 's pediatrician regarding his

> >thyroid problems,

> > but I have a new reason for wondering about them. He's just had his third

> > swimming lesson

> > at the Y--outdoor pool, water temp in the mid-70s and air temp in the

> > mid-90s. The other

> > children seem to be comfortable but by about 2/3 through the half-hour

> > lesson is

> > sitting on the steps not just shivering but with his teeth chattering,

> > complaining of the cold.

> > Is this just his excessive anxiety? He doesn't seem to be afraid of the

> > water or the teacher,

> > Andy, who is pretty good with him. It looks more like hypothyroid to me.

> >

> > Peace,

> > Kathy E.

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

If you get tachycardia, denotes your adrenals are struggling. You can try to

take some adrenal cortex extract to strengthen the adrenals. Low thyroid can

cause heart disease.

If Ben's temps are that low, chances are his thyroid is struggling. Adequate

amounts of thyroid hormone are important, for children, for adequate brain

development. The thyroid is involved in just about every organ system in the

body. We found the low thyroid was also the answer to the bumps she had on

her upper arms (kerotosis), now gone, signaling her fatty acids have become

balanced. You need good thyroid function to adequately absorb the clo most

of us give.

Good luck,

Thyroid problems/?

>>

>>

>> >I haven't had a chance yet to consult 's pediatrician regarding

>> >his

>> >thyroid problems,

>> > but I have a new reason for wondering about them. He's just had his

>> > third

>> > swimming lesson

>> > at the Y--outdoor pool, water temp in the mid-70s and air temp in the

>> > mid-90s. The other

>> > children seem to be comfortable but by about 2/3 through the half-hour

>> > lesson is

>> > sitting on the steps not just shivering but with his teeth chattering,

>> > complaining of the cold.

>> > Is this just his excessive anxiety? He doesn't seem to be afraid of the

>> > water or the teacher,

>> > Andy, who is pretty good with him. It looks more like hypothyroid to

>> > me.

>> >

>> > Peace,

>> > Kathy E.

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

[Guest guest]

> >>

> >> Could be. Better test is to take his temps 3-4 times throughout the day,

> >> say at 9am then noon, then 3pm then at 6pm. He should have temps at

> >> about

> >> 98.4 or higher.

> >>

> >> If he passes that test, take his temp first thing before he gets up (we

> >> could never do this, can't remember how old Ben is, but ours is little,

> >> and

> >> this was not going to happen)

> >>

> >> As you may remember, the only symptom we had was dry skin, but her temps

> >> were between 96.7 and 97.1, brrrr. Now with the Armour, they sit

> >> squarely

> >> at 98.5-98.6, throughout the day.

> >>

> >> Good luck,

> >>

> >> Thyroid problems/?

> >>

> >>

> >> >I haven't had a chance yet to consult 's pediatrician regarding

> >> >his

> >> >thyroid problems,

> >> > but I have a new reason for wondering about them. He's just had his

> >> > third

> >> > swimming lesson

> >> > at the Y--outdoor pool, water temp in the mid-70s and air temp in the

> >> > mid-90s. The other

> >> > children seem to be comfortable but by about 2/3 through the half-hour

> >> > lesson is

> >> > sitting on the steps not just shivering but with his teeth chattering,

> >> > complaining of the cold.

> >> > Is this just his excessive anxiety? He doesn't seem to be afraid of the

> >> > water or the teacher,

> >> > Andy, who is pretty good with him. It looks more like hypothyroid to

> >> > me.

> >> >

> >> > Peace,

> >> > Kathy E.

> >> >

> >> >

> >> >

> >> >

> >> >

> >> >

> >> >

[Guest guest]

Is tachycardia when your heart all of a sudden starts beating really fast, you

sort of get flushed and out of breath and it is all over in about 15-30 seconds?

I have been reading more and more posts on adrenals and am finding this so

interesting. I get what I just described every so often and with my first two

pregnancies I had a lot of trouble with high heartbeats during my second

trimesters. My first pregnancy I actually ended up on a heart monitor to see

what was going on. I would very slowly walk up stairs and my heart would be

racing, like 200 bpm. I would often have those episodes but EKGs were always

normal and no cause was ever found. I am going to have to suck it up and find a

doctor for my ASD son and I. I have been wanting to get our thyroids checked

out for awhile now.

Thanks,

Kathleen Eickwort <Kathleen_E@...> wrote:

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> If you get tachycardia, denotes your adrenals are struggling.

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you’ve never been in bed with a

mosquito!” –Betty Reese

“Uneducated people believe what they are told…Educated people question what

they are told.” –Helen Keller

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[Guest guest]

That sounds more like a short run of supraventrical tachycardia (SVT), like I

used to have

before the radiofrequency ablation, except mine got longer and I couldn't stop

them at

home and ended up in an ambulance one morning with no blood pressure they could

get

on the way to the hospital. I did recover that afternoon and fly to California,

being

exceptionally stubborn. But there are lots of different kinds of tachycardia and

heart

arrhythmias. The nice thing about an event monitor (which I wore for a month) is

that you

can press a button while it is happening, it records the " event " and then you

play it back

over the phone and they analyze the recording and it lets your doctor know

what's going

on. My father had Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome, and my daughter also had a

different

arrhythmia, so I'm not about to try to be a long-distance cardiologist here!!

Take care,

Kathy E.

> >

> > If you get tachycardia, denotes your adrenals are struggling.

>

> " If you think you are too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with

a

mosquito! " –Betty Reese

>

> " Uneducated people believe what they are told…Educated people question what

they

are told. " –Helen Keller

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

I also have WPW but it was corrected with an ablation when I was 19. That was

13 year ago. Scary but successful procedure. My last EKG was about 6 years ago

and it was still normal looking. They thought I was having problems because of

it...textbook symptoms of a heart attack. Ended up being my gallbladder which

they removed 1 month later. When I was pregnant the monitor I wore was an event

monitor. I wore it for a month and recorded all kinds of those events. I sent

the report through the phone to the doctor and was told there wan't any

" problem " . It was only bad during the second trimester of those two pregnancies

and since that time I only have them maybe once or twice a month. I didn't have

the same problem in my third pregnancy with my daughter.

Thanks for the lab referral. I will ask my chiro to order those if I

can't do it myself. He will order labs for me if I know what I am asking for.

Thanks so much.

Kathleen Eickwort <Kathleen_E@...> wrote:

That sounds more like a short run of supraventrical tachycardia (SVT), like I

used to have

before the radiofrequency ablation, except mine got longer and I couldn't stop

them at

home and ended up in an ambulance one morning with no blood pressure they could

get

on the way to the hospital. I did recover that afternoon and fly to California,

being

exceptionally stubborn. But there are lots of different kinds of tachycardia and

heart

arrhythmias. The nice thing about an event monitor (which I wore for a month) is

that you

can press a button while it is happening, it records the " event " and then you

play it back

over the phone and they analyze the recording and it lets your doctor know

what's going

on. My father had Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome, and my daughter also had a

different

arrhythmia, so I'm not about to try to be a long-distance cardiologist here!!

Take care,

Kathy E.

> >

> > If you get tachycardia, denotes your adrenals are struggling.

>

> " If you think you are too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with

a

mosquito! " –Betty Reese

>

> " Uneducated people believe what they are told…Educated people question what

they

are told. " –Helen Keller

>

>

>

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