I've felt a bit "off" for a few years now, but lately I've been feeling pretty awful.  I'm fatigued almost all the time, and have to nap even if I get plenty of sleep.  Sometimes I get random chest pains or my heart flutters.  I feel like I'm not getting enough oxygen when I breathe, and that I'm mentally dull/slow.  I eat constantly but can never seem to gain any weight.  I overheat very easily and sweat even when it isn't hot out.  I randomly have a bout of diarrhea almost every month, and often have abnormal abdominal pain before exciting events.  I occasionally have manic phases where I can't sleep and my mind races uncontrollably.  Lastly, my muscles (especially my arms) are really weak, but I'm pretty out of shape.\n\nI've done some research on my own, and am planning on seeing a doctor at some point.  I'm just curious if anyone here has experience with thyroid problems, if they had similar symptoms, and how they turned out with treatment.  Any other general info is welcome.
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This is likely to be a thyroid case, based on your history of fatigue, heart flutters, mental dullness, weight gain, etc. Problem is, it doesn't seem to correlate to either hyperthyroidism (excessive) or hypothyroidism (less) because of contrary symptoms (although, I will admit that these symptoms are not steadfast).\n\nApart from that, the other likely cause for fatigue and heart flutters could be long-standing anaemia.\n\nDo keep an eye on your menstrual cycles & see if they're still regular/ irregular and of your normal flow or if they've dereased in quantity.\n\nTreatments for either thyroid or anaemia is good. Most patients are in normal health status within 3 months or so, with good patient compliance. \n\nDo get yourself checked by a medical professional without delay. A 'few years' is already a long time to contemplate a visit to the doctor's.
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I have been reading this book called Menopause Without Medicine, \nwanted to share something with you that I read today.\n\nIf you have emotional distress, what are the chances that you are \nmissing a vital vitamin or mineral in your diet? Check whether any of \nthe symptoms listed below are familiar to you:\n\n- Vitamin B-1(thiamine): loss of appetite, depression, irritability,\n  memory loss, sensitivity to noise, inability to concentrate, \n  fatigue, reduced attention span.\n\n- Vitamin B-3 (niacin): insomnia, nervousness, confusion, depression,\n  hallucination, loss of memory\n\n- Vitamin B-6: anxiety, depression, irritability, insomnia\n\n- Pantothenic acid: depression, inability to tolerate stress\n\n- Vitamin B-12 (cobalamine): difficulty concentrating and remembering,\n  stuporous depression, severe agitation, hallucinations, manic\n  behavior\n\n- Folic acid: irritabiity, weakness, apathy, hostility, anemia\n\n- Vitamin C: increased stress and fatigue\n\n_ Vitamin E: depression, lethargy\n\n- Potassium: nervousness, irritability, mental disorientation\n\n- Magnesium: paranoid psychosis\n\n- Calcium: anxiety, neurosis, fatigue, insomnia, tension\n\n- Zinc: anemia, poor mental function\n\n- Iron: depression, lethargy, poor concentration, irritability,\n  decreased attention span, personality changes\n\n- Essential fatty acid: anxiety, irritability, insomnia\n\nThe chemical makeup of the brain requires an ample and constant \nsupply of essential nutrients. Vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids, \nand enyzymes are all interrelated, each dependent on the others for \nabsorption and utilization; moreover, a shortage of one vital element \ncan render all the others less effective. That is why nutritionists \nurge people to eat a variety of nutrient-dense foods.\n\nI do know from past research and personal experience that if you are \nnot taking a good multi-vitamin along with a mineral supplement it is \nmore difficult to get your hormones balanced and keep them there...\n\n\nNeed more info?\nE-mail me!\nBlessings~\nMichelle Jones
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You need to consult a doctor.  There are too many possibilities here & no one will be able to diagnose the problem without tests & an examination. \nSleep Apthnia (spelling?) is one possibility & can be corrected with medication.  Another more common disorder deals with the Thyroid & fatigue is usually accompanied by weight gain & other symtoms.  The need to sleep is also associated with depression, which in itself is often misunderstood by patients. Depression is a real physical disorder that adversly affects body chemesrty.  Probably one of the most dangerous possibilities is Hypertension, which can effect many areas of the body including the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys etc.\nYour doctor must first determine if your fatigue is a disorder or a symptom. You can't do that on these pages. Go see a doctor!\nIt could also be as simple as changing your diet.
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I am far from a doctor, but I had very similar symptoms about a year ago.  I couldn't breathe, I felt like I was always hyporventilating, I had terrible pains in my upper chest, pains in the bottom of my throat when I took a deep breath, irregular heart beats and splitting headaches up the back of my head.  This may sound crazy but, I had a full physical done with blood tests and an electrocardiogram, and it turned out that all my symptoms were being caused by stress and anxiety.  I lost someone very close to me and that was my bodies way of showing signs of stress.  Anxiety can make you experience very bizarre physical symptoms and worrying only makes them much worse.  Trust me, I worried myself sick over it...only adding to the stress I was already dealing with.  My advise...relax, and go get checked out.  It will probably be nothing and you will feel much better knowing that.
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Have you had any panic attacks? \n-Sweating\n-Shaking\n-Racing thoughts\n-Choking feeling\n-Trouble breathing\n-Racing heart beat\n\nYou might...talk to your doctor about it.  If you feel constantly in anxeity there could be a deeper root or you could be developing or have anxeity disorder.  Call your doctor and talk to him about it
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EDITED 1-23-06 \n\nWow. You even have TMJ!? \nI guess you should feel good about yourself! You are the only person I have heard of that can have all that and still make it through the day. \n\nThe nice thing is you have so many places to chose to start fixing yourself. The other neat thing is that once you get one thing fixed a lot of the other problems will start to go away. \n\nBeing over weigh and eating poorly will give you GAD, GERD, IBS, Depression (and all the other symptoms of it), gall bladder issues, high cholesterol, kidney stones, and obesity. \n\n**This is important.... Processed sugar is actually a poison to you. My doc proved this to me by having me cut it out of my diet for 2 weeks then doing a blood test on me...my cholesterol dropped by 60 pts. \nThrow away anything that has processed sugar. Little Debbies, hostess cakes all that crap. Also no more Sodapop. Drink tea, water, or juice.\n\n- Every day or two you need to include a healthy salad that includes green, red and yellow veggies, some meat and cheese for one meal. Don't worry about getting fat free dressings. Just don't drowned your salad in dressing. \n\n-Also include beans and fruit into your diet. Rotate everything through out the week so you don't eat the same stuff everyday. \n-Don't forget the Steak. Mmm a nice juicy steak. Its ok to eat meat. Your body needs the nutrients from it. Heres a meal for ya, steak, salad and garlic parmessian bread. Yum. And good for ya!  \n\nNext...Start walking around your block 2x a day. Don't push yourself. Only go once around or down to the corner and back if that is all you can do but for God's sake get out. Activity and sunshine are proven to drop your cholesterol and help with depression. \n\nI know it is hard to change, so do it in small steps. Start today don't put it off. Make a plan that you can realistically stick to every week. Don't look too far ahead. After a week you will start to feel amazing. I did. \n\nOh and Identify and get rid of the things that are over stressing you. \n\n****You are not hopeless. Remember that.\n\n\n****Swimming is great low impact cardio. You have got to do something. Excercise will help with bones.\nNo more excuses.
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Go and have a check up pronto!\nA blood test should be made to determine any strange stats.\nIn my case some 7 years ago, it was depression and low energy that drove me to the doctor where we found my hypothyroid hashimoto disease.\nTell the doctor everything about your normal day-to-day life, like what you eat, how much water you drink, you long you work and how long you sleep and how much you exercise.\nGood luck and do go to the doctor!
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I use to be like you. So much so that my boyfriend was afraid of me and he is the one that finally showed me on a calendar(he had been secretly charting my moods according to my cycle)that I was a crazy/dangerous woman particular times of the month.\n\nChanging my diet to healthier (you know the drill) and taking vitamins Brewers yeast shake, A-D combo, E400 IU, C 1000mg at least 1x per day (I usually did 2x am and pm)changed my whole life for the better.\n\nEven today, (20 yrs. later) if I go without vitamin supplements for a time, the crazy symptoms with my cycle start to return and now I am going into menapause.\n\nSo I am trying to tell you also that this won't just stop on its own. I've found I had to "fight for my womb"; it's health and it's "right" to exist.\n\nProcream Plus Natural Progesterone Cream by Eternally Fit has been my life saver now even without vitamin supplements (used it for 6 years). For I learned that those symptoms are due to Estrogen Dominance and will follow a woman thru the years of the different phases of her cycle and manifest as different "diseases", really bad cramps, heavy bleeding, fibroid tumors, endometriosis, mood swings, bad menopause experience etc..\n\nI have recommended ProCream Plus to friends of mine who are not into the vitamin thing and they too feel like they found a "lifeline".  I never leave home without it.\n\nIn addition, the product comes with an educational tape by a well known M.D. (who gets no $$ from the product).\n\nIn lay language he describes why we women go thru this, the root causes and how it is now indigenous to us as American women.  It is ear-opening but you find that you can't deny the truth of it.\n\nNote: DO NOT CONFUSE THIS WITH THE SYNTHETIC PROGESTERONE HORMONE TREATMENTS M.D.'s give (which usually augment women's health problems.)\n\nGod bless!
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Actually, that sounds fairly normal for an underactive thyroid.  I myself have hypothyroidism and I feel like a train wreck in the morning too.  My endocrinologist tells me that it's amazing I can get out of bed in the morning at all.  That's how much correcting my hormone levels need.\n\nWhat you really need to do is stick with your medication every day.  Do NOT forget.  I forgot for a while and it lead to some serious problems.  If you stick with your meds and you're still feeling really sluggish in the morning, tell your doctor on your next visit.  Really, the only remedy is to find the right dosage and right now you're probably on too low a dose.  Hormone replacement needs can fluctuate especially if your hypothyroidism is caused by Hashimoto's Disease (an auto-immune disease and the leading cause of hypothyroidism).  I'm not sure if yours is, but it's a possibility and it WILL make your levels fluctuate.  Once your levels are balanced out, you should start to feel 100% better.\n\nI've been on steady meds for a few months now (after slacking off horribly and feeling just like you do) and I'm feeling the difference.  I have more energy overall.\n\nIf you need a pick - me - up in the morning, you could always try coffee.  If you don't like coffee, try another caffeinated beverage.  Combine it with brisk activity like a jog or a quick lap around a pool.  Adrenaline can go a long way.\n\nHope you get to feeling better!
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Yep!  It sounds like depression if it goes on and on and it brings alot of good caring people down this world is a sad place right now.  Things do get better and if you still feel out of it after a long while I would talk with your doctor.Hope you feel better real soon!!
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My husband and my daughter have hypothyroidism. Both of them are stabilized with 1.25. My daughter has different symptoms than my husband. My daughter does get depressed, weight gain, etc. Not being able to take most over the counter medicine she suffers with allergies and cold. Stay with synthroid. I have used generic med on her and it was like she wasn't taking any medicine at all. \nMy husband has the mood swings. They are the worse. He also had weight loss that was very low. That was before the medication. If your test show you are stable them from there you will be able to cope with anything. My husband's blood work  is good. I wish mine was as good. My daughter is pregnant. This mess with your medication. The baby needs more than you realize. My daughter has had this since 8 years old. It interferred with her growth. My husband had it for years but wasn't diagnosed until last year. He didn't think anything was wrong. I was the one that had to deal with his mood swings. He was about to go into a coma when the dr. finally found what was wrong. Take your medicine and do your tests regular and you will be fine.
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Hi!I have a huge problem. I would like to be healthy. I'm not to sick but I'm also not in good shape. I'm always very tired and with little energy. IF i walk to school i get tired. If i do to many things at home i get tired as well. I dont want to be tired! What should i do?\n\nYour desperate friend\n\nCarmen
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Yes, it means you're borderline hypothyroid. Are you having any symptoms? hair loss? tiredness, muscle aches? constipation, cold hands? The interesting thing is you don't have to have all these symptoms in order to be hypothyroid. You could ask to try a low dose of thyroid medication and see what that does.\n\nBut since you're still on normal, and once you start the thyroid medication, you pretty much aren't able to get off, I would try some natural remedies to get a sluggish thyroid working. There are some things you could try. \n\nCheck out this website: \n\nhttp://www.quickregister.net/articles/ROI/Do_Natural_Thyroid_Boosters_Work.html
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what does she tell you?  Did you get your Thyriod tested?  Are you depressed?  have you tried taking a decongestant before you go to sleep at night to help you sleep?  exercise always helps me...  maybe you should go to the doctor and get a second opinion.
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oh man do I know what your talking about. I have been to the dr. he says they cant find nothing. I dont know about you or how you feel but I am sick all the time. and i am not a hydro......how ever you spell it.My joints ache my muscles hurt, I feel like I have the flu all the time.`I am really getting sick and tired of being sick and tired.I dont know what else to do.I have felt like this for a long time.I know this hasnt helped you any. Just thoght I would share a little about how I feel.If you would like to e-mail any body about this I am here. klinedarlene@yahoo.com. Have a nice week-end.
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Lots of things can cause tiredness.  I'll name just a few that come to my mind.\n\nIron deficiency.  If you have lost any blood or are not getting enough iron in your diet, you could have anemia.  This makes you feel tired and run-down.\n\nThyroid disease.  If your thyroid is low, you will feel tired.  \n\nDepression.  One symptom of depression can be fatigue.\n\nVitamin B deficiency.\n\nAnd a whole host of illnesses have tiredness as a symptom.  You could even have a sleeping disorder where even though you are technically asleep, you are not getting a good sound sleep that your body needs.\n\nDo you get enough exercise and drink plenty of water?\n\nYou probably should have a complete bloodwork done, so they can check for all the possible things like thyroid and deficiencies, etc.
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Do you have a copy of your blood work? If you do, look at it and see if you were TSH, T-3 and T-4 levels were tested. These are tests used to determine how well your thyroid is functioning. The symptoms that you're describing remind me of how I first felt when I developed hypothyroidism. I doubt it is your blood sugar because people tend to lose weight, not gain weight, during the onset of diabetes. On top of feeling sluggish, poor thyroid function can make you depressed, anxious, physically and mentally exhausted, constipated, and can affect your mood in general. I didn't want to hang out with my friends, talk on the phone, go to work or school, or do anything that required any effort. Also caffeine and sugar had adverse effects on me. If you're experiencing any symptoms similar to these, and you TSH ( thyroid stimulating hormone ) wasn't already tested, I suggest ruling hypothyroidism out as a first step. Good luck, and remember, if diseases are caught early enough, more than likely they can be cured ( or at least treated ).