SYMPTOMS OF HYPOTHYROID BEFORE DIAGNOSIS
Find a Conversation
SYMPTOMS OF HYPOTHYROID BEFORE DIAGNOSIS
| Sat, 04-28-2007 - 10:56am |
For several years now I feel horridly exhausted, sluggish, cold all the time, hair loss, slow bowels, slowly have gained weight over this period of time with difficulty losing any and I follow Weight Watchers pretty closely and still no loss, even with exercise. I have had some testing done like twice over the last couple years and it is within normal limits. I have done research, I am a nurse, and besides feeling like a hypochodriac I truely feel it is thyroid. My mother has hypothyroid and can be famillial. UGGGG. I am tired of being exhausted but don't really know where to go from here. Does anyone have any suggestions or similar experience? Thank you!!!
Jamie
Jamie

Yeah I definately know where you are coming from my levels used to fluctuate so they didnt want to put me on anything! I was trying everything to make my levels drop before blood tests just so that I would finally be listened to and put on something for it! It was crazy and I definately get what you mean about feeling like a hypochondriac I went into the specialist with a list of symptoms and handed it to her, she looked at me like I was crazy and continued to tell me that I could be tired because of college, my dry skin could be cold weather, and so on through my list! Thankfully though they eventually saw my levels low enough to do something about it!
My advice is to really push regular blood tests as that is how (if you fluctuate like mine) they will catch it when it falls a little bit! And really stress how awful you feel especially if, like me you had never been sick before!
Hope that helps you out a little bit I definately think hypothyroid is a possibility for you as your symptoms are identical to some of mine!
Hope you get sorted out with some proper answers!
xxx
I would push hard if you aren't feeling well. Those symptoms are not in your head, no matter what they are telling you.
Good Luck! I hope this helps you some. I am on meds for less than a month and am feeling much better. My joint pain is gone and I am not as tired! Keep me posted on what happens!
((Hugs))
I would push hard if you aren't feeling well. Those symptoms are not in your head, no matter what they are telling you.
Good Luck! I hope this helps you some. I am on meds for less than a month and am feeling much better. My joint pain is gone and I am not as tired! Keep me posted on what happens!
((Hugs))
Sorry!
I would also suggest testing again - maybe even a different doctor. I'd also find out which tests they are doing and make sure they are testing free T3 an T4 as well as antibodies. TSH is usally all they test and it is *not* a reliable indicator. in my case, my TSH and T3 are in normal range (although not optimal) but my T4 is very low - if I had not had a complete test done, that would have been totally missed and I would have been sent home with a 'you're just fine' even though I had multiple symptoms (which, was exactly what happened for many years) Thyroid support groups are full of people with the same story.
Good luck getting this straightened out.
"The diet-heart idea (the notion that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times. This idea has been repeatedly shown to be wrong, and yet, for complicated reasons of pride, profit and
Aww ya gotta love the kiddies! lol
I agree though she should definately get her levels checked out again!
xx