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@kayberry: I was never diagnosed, but I'm pretty sure I have hypothyroidism. I suffer from severe depression. I've lost weight and almost a year later - I gained most of it back out of nowhere. I did nothing different besids cut out drinking and bar food all together (go figure, right?). I get so cold easily. I'm constantly in pain one way or another. Tired? ALL OF THE TIME! Working night shift doesn't help either. My libido is the only thing that doesn't suffer.
@MissPumpkinPie: Some of the symptoms I've always had - I always tend to be cold.. I am an emotional person and tend to be affected easily by things. I used to be so good at keeping weight off but recently I haven't. So I don't know, some of them are sudden but it is worrying me.
You should have bloodwork done - it could probably help being on meds to balance your thyroid
@kayberry: I plan on having it done. I didn't have health insurance for the longest time and recently got it. =) The funny thing is that I've laid out all of my symptoms to doctors when I first 18. I'm pretty sure the doctor did check my thyroid at the time, but she claims everything was fine. I'm pretty convinced I've encountered assholes/lazy doctors.
@MissPumpkinPie: There are certain types of hypothyroidism that doesn't show up with a normal blood panel and has to be done by a hormone specialist? That could be the problem. Or it could just be lazy doctors - I've encountered those too.
My SO works at a hospital in the lab so tonight he's going to look over my blood work request form because I want to have a full panel done and a metabolic panel done. He was like : yes, do everything!
Hopefully I can go tomorrow or Monday to have the blood done. UGH I hate needles :/
Yup, I actually went off Nuvaring for symptoms very close to yours, and now have to go back for follow up blood work to see how my levels are so I can see if it was the bc or actual hypothyroidism. Good luck, I hope you get some answers soon!!
@MrsSl82be: Did you go off for the symptoms but they persisted and then you had blood work done? Or did you go off because the ring would interfere with the blood results?
Do you guys think my being on the BCP would effect the blood results? I didn't consider this
I had these symptoms before I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism:
- fatigue
- sleeping for 12-16 hours
- depression and mood swings, angriness. I could be fine on one day and totally depressed on the next day.
- feeling cold.
- nausea and dizziness. (in the last stage before the diagnosis)
- weakness in the legs, overall weakness. (200 meters was my limit for walking. I used to do sports for 15 hours a week before the hypothyroidism)
- aches and pains in my arms and legs
- panic attacks
- I wasn't willing to do anything, even things I normally found interesting (e.g. studying, sports)
- memory loss (I started to feel really stupid. Yet I got my Master's degree. Now I cannot imagine how I did that when I was so tired.)
- inability to fall asleep. It took hours.
At first I was diagnosed as depressed. I took the depression medicines for 4 years and they seemed to help depression a bit. They did not help at all with the other symptoms. I quit taking the medicines (with the consent of my psychiatrist).
I was finally diagnosed after having symptoms for 7 years or more. My TSH and T4 levels were just under/over or just on the border. They were measured repeatedly and yet my GP said that she would not prescribe levothyroxin to me yet. I had to change my GP to get levothyroxin.
I have been taking levothyroxin for over a year now. The first 6 months was real rollercoaster, since the medication builds up slowly in your system and before you can take any more of the medicine you have to have your hormone levels checked and then the medicine does not keep up with the needs of the body. I am now in the care of a great endocrinologist. He says that it might take 2 years for me to recover. I am now better than before the medicine , but it's not perfect yet. I have gotten rid of panic attacks, nausea, dizziness, most of the tiredness and I'm not cold any more. And my depression disappeared!
Please find a good endocrinologist now! Hypothyroidism took so many years away from me. I don't want anybody to go through the same.
The labwork is taken in the morning in my country (between 8.00-10.00). Ask the hypothyroid organisations in your country how it's done there.
@kayberry: It's possible I need to go to a specialist, but as an 18 year old, how would I have known? That's where the lazy doctors come from. Instead of referring me to someone or suggesting I go.. they tell me I'm fine? That's why I hate doctors and have a hard time going. FI doesn't understand. Hah. Btw, I don't mean for my response to be snarky. Looking at it, it seems to be. I'm just frustrated with healthcare in the States.
I have hypothyroidism. It sucks so much. Even with meds, I'm constantly fatigued. Basically I'll take my meds for the rest of my life. If I don't stay on them I bleed for months b/c it causes weirdness with your menstrual cycles.
I should add that I had all the symptoms you listed. It royally sucks and apparently it runs in families. It's also super common but a relatively easy fix. One pill every morning on an empty stomach. For some the meds work like magic on their fatigue, on mine however I could still sleep 10-12 hours but I suffer with 7.5-9.
I'm actually about to try and get my levels checked next week. I've been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but I was actually talking to a doctor at a healthy life expo thing, and he said I should try and get some more in-depth labs. My TSH levels doubled in one year, but are still within the supposedly "normal" range. He said that it's very unlikely that if my levels were normal, that they would jump like that. So now I'm going to try and get my Thyroid antibodies checked.
CFS is a diagnosis of elimination, and I want to be extra sure it's not just symptoms of an underactive thyroid. I've been trying to find out why I'm so exhausted for about 4 years now.
Ugh yeah I've had nausea too! I've been just attributing all these changes to my pill but ugh.
I don't know what's wrong with me. I got home from class today and slept for two hours straight. I had alarms set - slept through them.
I'm listless and depressed, I don't want to study and then I don't do well and I feel even worse, I feel nauseous, light headed, dizzy and it's just taking a huge toll on me.
The worst is I don't KNOW that I have hypothyroidism. If I get my blood work done and I don't have it how am I supposed to know what's wrong with me?
I was just DX with Hypothyoidism a little over a week ago. I have been on synthroid for 1 week now. My dad has it. Its a pill you will most likely have to take for the rest of your life. Birth control pill will not effect the blood test. Its an easy test and the results are in in about an hour. Its good to know. Its an easy thing once they figure out the medication dosage. I had all of those symptoms too. My friend has it as well and after two weeks of starting the synthroid medication her weight just dropped. I have lost 8 lbs already. I would get the test done and then you are treat it. Its nothing to freak out about. Just take a pill and things will be fine. I work in the healthcare field and my fiance runs all the blood tests in the lab. I understand your frustation though. I gained 25 lbs last year. I had two personal trainers, nutritionist and couldn't lose a single pound. I'm glad I found out what I have and now treating it. Good luck to you. I understand everyone is different. I hope you do the test and start working on a treatment right for you.
@Costa Rica Bride: Thank you! I had my blood drawn on Friday and my doctor should get the results tomorrow. So hopefully I get an answer.
@kayberry: I have Hashimoto's disease; a form of hypothyroidism too. At first I had all kinds of crazy symptoms because I evidently was cycling in between Hashimotos and Graves' disease before my thyroid just decided to be lazy. Your symptoms don't sound too far off from it, however these symptoms are very VAGUE and are in line with a lot of other diseases and syndroms. It took doctors THREE YEARS to figure out what was going on with me. THREE!!!!
My advice to you: If you know something is wrong deep down, DO NOT let a doctor tell you it's all in your head, or that you should see a psychiatrist. That's what I was told, and I stuffed the symptoms down and convinced myself I was going nuts. It took not getting a period for almost a year for me to seek out another opionion, and BINGO! the right test was performed and I had my answer.
You don't really know how bad off you are until you actually get medicated and start feeling well again. It's like night and day. Some days, my toes still turn blue because I'm hyper sensitive to the cold, or I get overly tired, but by and large, I can concentrate much better. I legitimately felt stupid before; my attention span was nil and it had never been that bad before.
Since you swapped BCP, it wouldn't hurt to take a pregnancy test too just to ease your mind a little with that. Some of those symptoms could be baby-related--- I'd take that test just to rule it out.
Good luck to you, and I hope you find the answers you're looking for. If you are on twitter, look up ThyroidMary she has a lot of good information for a beginner if you find your diagnosis is hypothyroidism. And remember not to get discouraged; your meds can take months to adjust, depending on outside factors in your health (like heart disease). You should feel a slight difference within 4-5 weeks of first taking your meds.
@JulesSchnooks: My doctor did recommend counseling - he said it could be just stress but also ordered blood work to test for hypothyroidism. The symptoms could also be from the BCP. WHO KNOWS
ah. No there's definitely something wrong. I took a test in January and it was negative, then AF came and I haven't seen my SO since the beginning of January so it couldn't be that.
I knew that there was something wrong with me. Yet the doctors kept telling me that it's depression/stress. Please, get a second opinion. Or third. Do whatever you have to do to get you a right diagnosis. Go to a good endocrinologist.
When your lab tests come back please ask the doctor to give them to you on paper. Ask her/him also to mark the "normal" range borders on the paper. This way you do not have to take the labwork again when you go to an endocrinologist.
I have hypothyroidism, an I have pretty much all of those symptoms. But when I've been on a bad brand of BC some get worse, particularly depression/mood swings
Its also important to know that you can have all the symptoms, and really have hypothyroidism, and test in the normal range. I've had all the symptoms for the better part of the past decade and only tested abnormal this year.
Adding again, counseling is still a good idea regardless of why you feel depressed.
As the other bees have said, these symptoms are all descriptive of so many conditions!
I have a stress induced condition (at least it's stress induced for me) called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. Most of my symptoms centre around fainting and exhaustion, but I'm also really vague and have a wide range of physical ailments when I'm having an episode!
It took me 18 months of neurologists and cardiologists and hospital visits before I got a diagnosis, and even then they weren't 100% sure because by that point I was mostly better.
Being unwell is awful, especially without a diagnosis. I hope you get some answers soon!
@kayberry: Yes, definitely go seek counseling because this process of searching can be daunting in itself, and counseling can most certainly help alleviate the stress of trying to figure out what's wrong BUT mostly my point was to not accept this answer from a lazy doctor who can't find "anything wrong" with you when clearly you know something is. If your doctor suggested therapy in addition to your testing, I'd say that doc deserves a round of applause for being progressive in thinking that mind / health is interconnected, but if he's steering you to a psyciatrist and insinuating that you're "crazy," it's time to kick him to the curb.
When it comes to health, you are your own best advocate. I'm so glad you're being proactive though!
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Hi Bees!
So I'm in university and I'm obviously under a lot of stress. But recently I've been even more stressed as this semester has been a really heavy load and is very tough and my parents don't want to talk to me / won't talk to me about school because they're upset I want to transfer programs. My SO and I tend to get into fights when I talk about school with him.
When I complain that I'm so stressed and that it's really hard to study he doesn't get it (yes he has gone through school too so he does kind of know what I'm talking about but he's also a lot smarter) He just goes "well study harder" or "stop complaining and just do it".
So yeah, doesn't really make me feel better.
Anyways so I recently changed BCPs and since then (and starting this semester) I've noticed that I've been really emotional - up and down really happy and really depressed and upset, listless and not wanting to do anything, irritable and angry. I've been really dizzy and lightheaded recently. I've been extremely tired, to the point where I'm almost falling a sleep in class and trying everything I can to stay awake (hot chocolate, tea, going to bed early, napping, not napping, everything!), I've been having killer migraines and headaches, I haven't been able to fall asleep but then when I finally do fall asleep I have a hard time getting up, I've been having problems again with dizziness like I used to where when I go from sitting to standing or laying to standing my vision blacks and I tend to fall down. I have NO libido whatsoever and so I just attributed this to my BCP.
So I went to the doctor to discuss this and he said it could be the BCP but it could also be stress/hypothyroidism. So he said since I haven't been on the pill very long I should stay on it (doesn't want to suddenly change everything all at once) and he wants me to have blood work done, he said it could be a multitude of things but he is worried it could be hypothyroidism which I looked up online and it lists the symptoms as:
Fatigue, Tiredness and weakness; feeling "run down"
Weight gain or difficulty losing weight
Constipation
Depression
Cold intolerance (low immune system)
Sleepiness
Memory loss
Decreased libido
Muscle aches and pains
Decreased concentration
Vague aches and pains
And I've pretty much experienced all of them (I gained 20lbs coming to university and I did everything I could last summer - eating healthy and exercising - and couldn't lose the weight) etc.
So yeah, I'm worried now so I'll be having my bloodwork done I'm thinking tomorrow or Monday. Also I've signed up for counseling one on one for stress management and I think it will be nice to have someone not personal to talk to.
BEES. Have any of you had hypothyroid problems and are these symptoms on the mark? What do you think?