Re: OT: atrophy of the fingertips (foot pain and carpal tunnel)

[Guest guest]

In your original post, you mentioned tender feet and carpal tunnel - both are

incredibly common with underactive thyroid situations. I have no idea about the

fingertips, and skin. But I do know that when lyme effects your thyroid, or

pituitary (resulting in underactive thyroid and other things), it can induce

this state. I am having some problems with that and it seems to be slowly

changing as I treat the infection. Have you had any workups done for 'ancillary

fallout'? Perhaps there is something else that can be supplemented or treated.

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> In your original post, you mentioned tender feet and carpal tunnel - both are

incredibly common with underactive thyroid situations. I have no idea about the

fingertips, and skin. But I do know that when lyme effects your thyroid, or

pituitary (resulting in underactive thyroid and other things), it can induce

this state. I am having some problems with that and it seems to be slowly

changing as I treat the infection. Have you had any workups done for 'ancillary

fallout'? Perhaps there is something else that can be supplemented or treated.

Yes, could be a factor. I'm suspecting thyroid problems, but the testing here is

very basic and they say the results were within normal parameters. But there are

a lot of cues that could point to low thyroid: I had very low temperatures until

about a year ago (now almost normal), strong weight loss, hair loss, etc.

I'm not sure where to start, my impression is that thyroid problems are not

diagnosed/treated very often in my country (Netherlands).

it's a bit weird though that while most of my lyme symptoms have receded, and my

temperature and weight are going back to more normal values, the fingertip

problems are getting much worse.