Anyone here with Hyper from Hashimoto's?
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Anyone here with Hyper from Hashimoto's?
| Tue, 08-10-2004 - 2:13pm |
How can it possibly be treated? A month and a half ago my TSH was .003. Now, it is normal. Through out my pregnancy I took 400 mg of PTU a day. At the end of my pregnancy I started showing up hypo. At the time, it was assumed I had Graves now we know differently. But my big hang up is, if your hormones fluctuate that much and aren't reliable (for lack of a better word), how can you be medicated? After a while, you will be over medicated? Am I missing something? How can they treat this effectively?



No that isn't it at all.
Yep.
Symptoms of Hypothyroidism
Fatigue
Weakness
Weight gain or increased difficulty losing weight
Coarse, dry hair
Dry, rough pale skin
Hair loss
Cold intolerance (can't tolerate the cold like those around you)
Muscle cramps and frequent muscle aches
Constipation
Depression
Irritability
Memory loss
Abnormal menstrual cycles
Decreased libido
Each individual patient will have any number of these symptoms which will vary with the severity of the thyroid hormone deficiency and the length of time the body has been deprived of the proper amount of hormone. Some patients will have one of these symptoms as their main complaint, while another will not have that problem at all and will be suffering from a different symptom. Most will have a combination of a number of these symptoms. Occasionally, some patients with hypothyroidism have no symptoms at all, or they are just so subtle that they go unnoticed. Note: Although this may sound obvious, if you have these symptoms, you need to discuss them with your doctor and probably seek the skills of an endocrinologist. If you have already been diagnosed and treated for hypothyroidism and you continue to have any or all of these symptoms, you need to discuss it with your physician. Although treatment of hypothyroidism can be quite easy in some individuals, others will have a difficult time finding the right type and amount of replacement thyroid hormone.
Cathy :)