Does anyone have Hypothyroidism?  What are your symtoms?
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Fatigue\nWeakness\nWeight gain or increased difficulty losing weight\nCoarse, dry hair \nDry, rough pale skin\nHair loss \nCold intolerance (can't tolerate the cold like those around you)\nMuscle cramps and frequent muscle aches\nConstipation\nDepression\nIrritability\nMemory loss\nAbnormal menstrual cycles\nDecreased libido\n\n They main purpose of the thyroid is to regulate your metabolism. In essence, if you have hypothyroidism, then in the most basic terms, your whole body slows down. Hence, the symptoms I have given you above. Now, there is a relation to hypothyroidism and depression. Both need to be diagnosed by a MD. And both can be treated with medication.
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Hypothyroidism is the disease state caused by insufficient production of thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland. There are several distinct causes for chronic hypothyroidism, the most common being Hashimoto's thyroiditis and hypothyroidism following radioiodine therapy for hyperthyroidism.\n\nThe severity of hypothyroidism varies widely. Patients are classified as "subclinical hypothyroid" if diagnostic findings show thyroid hormone abnormalities, but they do not exhibit any symptoms. Others have moderate symptoms that can be mistaken for other diseases and states. Advanced hypothyroidism may cause severe complications, the most serious one of which is myxedema.\n\nSubstitution of thyroid hormones by taking thyroxine (T4) tablets, usually in the form of levothyroxine. Doses are started with smaller amounts of thyroxine and then slowly titrated under control of TSH levels. Usually the maintenance dose is about 1 to 2 micrograms (µg) per kilogram of body weight.
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http://www.sclero.org/medical/symptoms/associated/thyroid/a-to-z.html\nhttp://webhome.idirect.com/~wolfnowl/thyroid.htm
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Are you sure its anxiety? some of your symptoms sound like a thryroid problem. Depends on the sequence of events. Did you gain weight, while tired and groggy? which led to depression which led to your unhappiness? \nAsk your md. But do research many doctors are ill informed about the growing thyroid problem
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as i mentioned in your other question, i do not know how to read this. but, here's some websites that can help you, and some information about me & the symptoms in general. i'm still working to find the right dosage of medication, and i've had it for 10 years! i got it after i had my 2nd child.\ni have low thyroid. if you have low thyroid...here's a great question to answer: can you see the floor of your house? that was what was asked of me at one point, and to my amazement, the answer was no!\nanyway, the signs are:fatigue and lack of energy. Women suffering from underactive thyroid experience heavier menstrual periods. Sluggishness and forgetfulness are symptoms of underactive thyroid problem. Other symptoms of this thyroid disorder are dry skin and hair and constipation.\nif you have high thyroid, or an overactive one, the signs are:increased body metabolism. This is followed by weight loss and excessive warmth and sweating. Persons suffering from overactive thyroid experience trembling hands, irritability and rapid heartbeat or palpitations. Women with overactive thyroid or hyperthyroidism may experience shorter or lighter menstrual periods.\nI take medication, and sadly will have to take 1 pill everyday for the rest of my life. there's a blood check that they will do to see if you have low or high. i hope i've helped you!!
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You probably have an overactive thyroid like me, which means... ur screwed just like the rest of us.
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There are some signs and symptoms of thyroid problems, but no diagnostic way of confirming without blood work.\nLook up hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism on web for some of the signs.
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These don't sound like symptoms of an underactive thyroid.  You can read the book by Mary Shoman titled:  Living well with Hypothyroidism.  it should give you a lot of information and ideas of what to do if it is actually your thyroid.  It will also help you talk to your doctor.
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It can be a symptom of hyperthyroidism.  That's what happened to me.\n  I started being hungry all the time and was losing weight, I thought I had a tapeworm!\n  Either way, if it continues you should go to your doctor because it's not something you can handle on your own. Good Luck
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i'm going to say NOT automatically. It's going to be VERY HARD, as your body needs that for better metabolism.\ni have low thyroid. if you have low thyroid...here's a great question to answer: can you see the floor of your house? that was what was asked of me at one point, and to my amazement, the answer was no!\nanyway, the signs are:fatigue and lack of energy. Women suffering from underactive thyroid experience heavier menstrual periods. Sluggishness and forgetfulness are symptoms of underactive thyroid problem. Other symptoms of this thyroid disorder are dry skin and hair and constipation.\nif you have high thyroid, or an overactive one, the signs are:increased body metabolism. This is followed by weight loss and excessive warmth and sweating. Persons suffering from overactive thyroid experience trembling hands, irritability and rapid heartbeat or palpitations. Women with overactive thyroid or hyperthyroidism may experience shorter or lighter menstrual periods.\nI take medication, and sadly will have to take 1 pill everyday for the rest of my life. there's a blood check that they will do to see if you have low or high. i hope i've helped you!!
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What is hyperthyroidism? \n\nHyperthyroidism develops when the thyroid gland makes too much thyroid hormone. Thyroid hormone controls your metabolism—how your body turns food into energy—and influences your heart rate, digestion, muscle and bone strength, and cholesterol levels. When you have too much thyroid hormone, all of your body's functions speed up. \n\nWhat causes hyperthyroidism? \n\nGraves' disease, also known in Europe as von Basedow's disease, is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism. Graves' disease causes the thyroid gland to produce too much thyroid hormone. Graves' disease, like many thyroid problems, often runs in families. \n\nHyperthyroidism can also be caused by thyroid nodules—growths in the thyroid gland—and by thyroiditis, which is inflammation of the thyroid gland. \n\nThis topic mostly focuses on hyperthyroidism caused by Graves' disease. However, many of the symptoms of hyperthyroidism are similar even when the causes are different.\n\nWhat are the symptoms of hyperthyroidism? \n\nYou may have hyperthyroidism if you:\n\nFeel nervous, moody, weak, or tired. \nHave hand tremors; have a fast or irregular heartbeat; or have trouble breathing, even when you are resting. \nAre sweating a lot, and have warm, red skin that may be itchy. \nHave frequent bowel movements. \nHave fine, soft hair that is falling out. \nLose weight even though you are eating normally or more than usual. \n\nHyperthyroidism symptoms are different depending on how old you are. For example, older adults may lose weight, not feel like eating, have an irregular heartbeat, or have chest pain. Symptoms can be easy to spot in some people and harder to notice in others.\n\nHow is hyperthyroidism diagnosed? \n\nDoctors diagnose hyperthyroidism by asking questions about your medical history, doing a physical exam, and ordering blood tests that tell how much thyroid hormone your body is making. \n\nHow is hyperthyroidism treated? \n\nThere are three treatments for hyperthyroidism. Antithyroid medication and radioactive iodine are the ones doctors use most often. Rarely, a person may have surgery. One or more of these treatments will lower your thyroid hormone levels and make you feel better. Once you have been treated for hyperthyroidism, you will need to have your thyroid hormone levels checked regularly, because there is always a chance that hyperthyroidism will come back. \n\nIf you do not get treatment, hyperthyroidism can lead to heart problems, bone problems, and thyroid storm, a life-threatening condition that occurs when the thyroid gland releases a large amount of thyroid hormone in a short period of time.
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Hypothyroid can be to blame for your weakness and general malaise. However, MS can also cause symptoms like that. One of the first symptoms patients can report is vision problems. If you know MS runs in your family and you are of moderate age, AND you are having these attacks (note that usually MS waxes and wanes) you should go see your doctor. \n\nAlso having a thyroid test done is pretty easy and would be a good idea for you. Other signs of hypothyroidism include depression, lowered affect, unable to get warm.
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yes, but it's reallllly tough!!\nhere is some information about myself, plus some symptoms in case anyone coming upon your question may be interested;\ni have low thyroid. if you have low thyroid...here's a great question to answer: can you see the floor of your house? that was what was asked of me at one point, and to my amazement, the answer was no!\nanyway, the signs are:fatigue and lack of energy. Women suffering from underactive thyroid experience heavier menstrual periods. Sluggishness and forgetfulness are symptoms of underactive thyroid problem. Other symptoms of this thyroid disorder are dry skin and hair and constipation.\nif you have high thyroid, or an overactive one, the signs are:increased body metabolism. This is followed by weight loss and excessive warmth and sweating. Persons suffering from overactive thyroid experience trembling hands, irritability and rapid heartbeat or palpitations. Women with overactive thyroid or hyperthyroidism may experience shorter or lighter menstrual periods.\nI take medication, and sadly will have to take 1 pill everyday for the rest of my life. there's a blood check that they will do to see if you have low or high. i hope i've helped you!!
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Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the body lacks sufficient thyroid hormone. Since the main purpose of thyroid hormone is to "run the body's metabolism", it is understandable that people with this condition will have symptoms associated with a slow metabolism. Over five million Americans have this common medical condition. In fact, as many as ten percent of women may have some degree of thyroid hormone deficiency.   Hypothyroidism is more common than you would believe...and, millions of people are currently hypothyroid and don't know it! \nThere are two fairly common causes of hypothyroidism. The first is a result of previous (or currently ongoing) inflammation of the thyroid gland which leaves a large percentage of the cells of the thyroid damaged (or dead) and incapable of producing sufficient hormone. The most common cause of thyroid gland failure is called autoimmune thyroiditis (also called Hashimoto's thyroiditis), a form of thyroid inflammation caused by the patient's own immune system. The second major cause is the broad category of "medical treatments".  As noted on a number of our other pages, the treatment of many thyroid conditions warrants surgical removal of a portion or all of the thyroid gland. If the total mass of thyroid producing cells left within the body are not enough to meet the needs of the body, the patient will develop hypothyroidism. Remember, this is often the goal of the surgery as seen in surgery for thyroid cancer. But at other times, the surgery will be to remove a worrisome nodule, leaving half of the thyroid in the neck undisturbed. Sometimes (often), this remaining thyroid lobe and isthmus will produce enough hormone to meet the demands of the body. For other patients, however, it may become apparent years later that the remaining thyroid just can't quite keep up with demand. Similarly, goiters and some other thyroid conditions can be treated with radioactive iodine therapy. The aim of the radioactive iodine therapy (for benign conditions) is to kill a portion of the thyroid to [1] prevent goiters from growing larger, or [2] producing too much hormone (hyperthyroidism). Occasionally, (often?) the result of radioactive iodine treatment will be that too many cells are damaged so the patient often becomes hypothyroid a year or two later. This is O.K. and usually greatly preferred over the original problem. There are several other rare causes of hypothyroidism, one of them being a completely "normal" thyroid gland which is not making enough hormone because of a problem in the pituitary gland. If the pituitary does not produce enough Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) then the thyroid simply does not have the "signal" to make hormone, so it doesn't.\nSymptoms of Hypothyroidism\n\nFatigue\nWeakness\nWeight gain or increased difficulty losing weight\nCoarse, dry hair \nDry, rough pale skin\nHair loss \nCold intolerance (can't tolerate the cold like those around you)\nMuscle cramps and frequent muscle aches\nConstipation\nDepression\nIrritability\nMemory loss\nAbnormal menstrual cycles\nDecreased libido\n\nEach 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 thes
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i have low thyroid. if you have low thyroid...here's a great question to answer: can you see the floor of your house? that was what was asked of me at one point, and to my amazement, the answer was no!\nanyway, the signs are:fatigue and lack of energy. Women suffering from underactive thyroid experience heavier menstrual periods. Sluggishness and forgetfulness are symptoms of underactive thyroid problem. Other symptoms of this thyroid disorder are dry skin and hair and constipation.\nif you have high thyroid, or an overactive one, the signs are:increased body metabolism. This is followed by weight loss and excessive warmth and sweating. Persons suffering from overactive thyroid experience trembling hands, irritability and rapid heartbeat or palpitations. Women with overactive thyroid or hyperthyroidism may experience shorter or lighter menstrual periods.\nI take medication, and sadly will have to take 1 pill everyday for the rest of my life. there's a blood check that they will do to see if you have low or high. i hope i've helped you!!
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Hypothyroidism is the disease state caused by insufficient production of thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland. There are several distinct causes for chronic hypothyroidism, the most common being Hashimoto's thyroiditis and hypothyroidism following radioiodine therapy for hyperthyroidism.\n\nThe severity of hypothyroidism varies widely. Patients are classified as "subclinical hypothyroid" if diagnostic findings show thyroid hormone abnormalities, but they do not exhibit any symptoms. Others have moderate symptoms that can be mistaken for other diseases and states. Advanced hypothyroidism may cause severe complications, the most serious one of which is myxedema.
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Hi Ryan \n\nHopefully it isnt this.\n\nHyperthyroidism\n\nCause\nAbnormal immune response is believed be a possible cause of hypothyroidism. The exact cause is not known, but certain antibodies from the immune system will launch an assault on the thyroid, disturbing hormone production. Lumps or tumors that form on the thyroid also disrupt hormone production. Temporary hyperthyroidism can be caused by infection or inflammation, and certain prescription drugs. \n\nHyperthyroidism is less common than Hypothyroidism, yet for both diseases, women appear to be more susceptible than men. Be aware that a malfunctioning thyroid may be the cause of recurring illnesses. \n\nSymptoms\nSymptoms of hyperthyroidism include rapid heartbeat, enlarged thyroid (goiter), moist skin, trembling or tremors, erratic pulse pressure levels (too high or too low), fatigue, anxiety, weight loss, bulging eyes, excessive sweating, increased appetite, low tolerance to heat, diarrhea, chest pain, and gastrointestinal disorders. In older people with hyperthyroidism, however, the opposite of the above symptoms can occur. Overall, hyperthyroidism is much rare than hypothyroidism (under active thyroid function). \n\nHyperthyroidism may be associated with and often is called Graves' disease, a condition characterized by an enlarged thyroid, bulging eyes bulge, rash and swelling in front of the lower leg. \n\nCan be fixed though.\n\nBest of health to you