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Posted by flygirl (Member # 6669) on :

my doc said my thyroid is hypo, so I gotta take cetamel? not sure if I got that right, the RX is downstairs.

is this a Lyme thing that may go away when I am better, or something else?

Posted by flygirl (Member # 6669) on :

cytomel, sorry.

Posted by HEATHERKISS (Member # 6789) on :

This is bad news...... I'm also hypo and alot of people on this web ring. Most likely we will be all our lives. I think once the thyroid doesn't work it never will. I could be wrong. I'm not an endocronologist.

But my mom is a nurse and I just recently asked her the same question. This is what she told me.

Posted by HEATHERKISS (Member # 6789) on :

GOOD NEWS IS....... you will feel alot better on your new medicine. It helps alot! And honestly out of all the medicines you could be paying for this one is cheap. about $20.00?

Posted by flygirl (Member # 6669) on :

well, supposely it's hovering near the normal range?

I am at a normal weight and actually get too WARM I think. not sure why I would be hypo?

will being hypo make your hair thinner, or will the drugs to get you back "up" make the hair thinner?

Posted by flygirl (Member # 6669) on :

thanks for the info!

still not sure why I am hypo, I don't seem to fit the symptoms.

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Posted by HEATHERKISS (Member # 6789) on :

Supposedly the lyme bacteria loves to attack the thyroid,

You are actually the first person who has said they were hypo and hot. Ussually hypos are cold.

That is so me. I was so friggin hot. Oh and forget the summer. Unbearable. but that went away after two years.

Posted by HEATHERKISS (Member # 6789) on :

I lost alot of hair and it got thinner but that was a relief for me. My hair has always been freakishly unbeleivable thick.

Posted by HEATHERKISS (Member # 6789) on :

Your kitties are so cute. I've got two cats also. One is black the other a mainly white calico.

Posted by Laurie362004 (Member # 6928) on :

hi...my lyme has caused me to be hypo as well....the hot flashes are unbeleivable...i have actually put my head in the freezer at workto cool off...lol.but since on antibiotcs and synthroid thehot flahses are not as bad....i am still waiting for my weight to regain its more noraml self...............

Posted by HEATHERKISS (Member # 6789) on :

DID YOU GAIN 40lbs Like me?

Posted by Samantha (Member # 3198) on :

I think my daughter has a hypothyroid. She has gained 25 pounds over a short time. Which thyoid tests helped dignose you?

Thanks!

Posted by flygirl (Member # 6669) on :

Heayher, did your hair get thin from the meds? or from being hypo

Posted by HEATHERKISS (Member # 6789) on :

from hponess

Posted by flygirl (Member # 6669) on :

post pictures of your kitties! mine are little princesses.

Posted by ToriT (Member # 6954) on :

I am hypo and not indentified Lyme yet. I am on synthroid and my symptoms have worsened.

My THS levels are normal and my goiter (swelling) has gone down. But I feel worse then ever.

I do not match all Hypo symptoms either. I am skinny - skinny.

I am so tired and brain dead by the time I see my endo. All I say to her is ,"I don't understand i am so tired". She say something or other. And I say, "I don't understand _ I am so tired".

I want to know more about the parathyroid. There is very interesting info about that. Do a search on it. Bad parathyroid is called the "moans, groans, and bones" disease.

Be well

Posted by bg (Member # 46416) on :

Samantha, the tests are TSH, T3 & T4.

I've had underactive thryoid about 20 yrs. on synthroid/levoxin tablets. This past 8 months, my dosage went down, and I will be on this the REST of my life.

Also, be sure to have your blood sugar tested to see if you are now a diabetic too. The thryoid is a sx of that too.

Betty G.

Posted by Samantha (Member # 3198) on :

Thanks for the info.

Posted by Foggy (Member # 1584) on :

Has anyone tried these herbal Thyroid suppliments?
http://www.wilsonssyndrome.com/Products/ThyroCare.htm

Posted by Aniek (Member # 5374) on :

I've heard some studies have shown that after Lyme treatment, thyroid can sometimes return to normal. I am borderline hypo.

Flygirl - where did you get a picture of my cats? Seriously, they look just like my cats. How do I add pictures here?

Posted by Laurie362004 (Member # 6928) on :

quote:
Originally posted by HEATHERKISS:
DID YOU GAIN 40lbs Like me?

hi heaterkiss....yes i have gained right at about 40 pounds...what other symtpoms r u experiencing.......im 36 female from ohio you can meial me direct at [email protected] if you wish to share stories...

Posted by Paisley (Member # 6502) on :

dear flygirl,

I was diagnosed as hypo about 4 yrs. ago. It seemed to help with many of the symptoms. My speciaiest put me in it even though I was considered subclinical. Agian, it was more of a clinicala dignosis. I gained 80 lbs. before the diagnosis was made. Now I am down to a size 0 (I think now becausea the parasites are using my food supply). Not healthy I know, but I'm having a lot of probelms with food and keeping ti down as well.

My specialist also stated that once the thryroid is destroyed by a virus or bacteria, it is very difficult to get back to functioning on its own.

Best of luck finding answers.
paisley

Posted by flygirl (Member # 6669) on :

Hi!

the weird thing is - I don't have any of the symptoms:

not tired.

weight: in the past year, strictly due to inactivity (swollen knees, hard to exercise) I gained 5 pounds. however, since this treatment I've felt better and in just the past few weeks I've dropped a few bc I am finally walking again.

HOT. I keep my heat on 66 at night - still sleep with a sheet and just a Tshirt - and still will wake up with a damp T shirt. if anything I would think I am hyper not hypo.

will this drug then exacerbate my hypER symptoms? make me even warmer, lose weight I really don't need to lose, etc?

what about hormonally - will I get zits, lose some hair?

Posted by ShadowHawk (Member # 6263) on :

How many of you that are hypothyroid have been tested for Hashimoto's Antibodies?

Hashimoto's Thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease where our own immune systems attack the thyroid gland and cause the hypothyroidism. It often causes goiter, or swelling of the thyroid gland too.

Posted by James H (Member # 6380) on :

Flygirl,

What does your temperature, as measured by a thermometer run? It can be low, 96 or 97, and you can still feel like you are hot, because your 'thermostat' is misadjusted.

I am told one will feel alot better if a low temperature condition caused by thyroid issues is corrected... even if you do not feel like you are cold.