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OK. i have lived in So. Colorado for 2 years now and can hardly wear long sleeved shirts. i get HOT and sweaty when i sleep with my door to the outside open.
people come into my house with 4 layers on and i am sitting in my sportsbra.
i am doing bioidentical hormones, just doubled thyroid hormone, Armour. i know i am not reptilian, but the heat is debilitating.
Any thoughts?
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My sister has the same issue and has dysautonomia.
We live together and right now I'm Hypothyroid(hashimotos) and I am cold all the time. She is hot. Laugh riot in this household.
when I was in a hyper-thyroid swing of hashimotos, I was warmer than average but nothing like with my sister's dysautonomia.
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thyroid pathology swings? interesting. i test hyper. can you say more 22?
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For decades, anyone coming to my house needed a coat because we kept our house temperature very cold. I could not function in normal temperatures. I had to plan all my trips out in the morning during the spring and summer and even into October because I would have to pay for days if I was out in temperatures that were too warm for me. I also have dysautonomia.
6 months of mepron made a HUGE difference for me. It didn't completly get rid of babesia or whatever protozoan infection I have but it made a big difference in my ability to tolerate normal temperatures.
My babesia tests were negative but like so many others, there seemed to be quite a few signs that a protozoan infection was causing symptoms.
Another big change with treatment is that I can sweat again. For years I did not sweat like a normal person. Part of the way our body controls temperature is by sweating.
I'm still being treated and continue to note changes. It is not going away easily.
Terry
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quote:Originally posted by aliyalex: thyroid pathology swings? interesting. i test hyper. can you say more 22?
My dr told me that ppl with hashimoto's can be hyper before going hypo.
and hypo and hyper symptoms are interchangeable. My sister has supposedly been Hyper but had all the typical symptoms of Hypo. we're not all textbook.
So, 3 yrs ago or so ago? I became warmer, hot-- i.e. I along with the guys at work were vying to crank up the A/C or turn down the heat depending on the time of year. I lost a good amount of weight very rapidly....
then it switched the next year and I started having instead clinical sx of Hypo: gained weight for no reason, became cold, had the typical 'puff' behind my ankle....
(along with other lyme sx)
Note: My TSH was "within normal limits" the entire time. In fact, the entire time it was between 1.25 and 1.91.
So I've never conventionally tested as hypo or hyper.
None of this made sense until another doctor tested for thyroid antibodies (Hashimoto's). Then a thyroid doc told me that Thyroid is a clinical diagnosis, that the tests, esp. for TSH,
don't give PCPs a good picture at all with what is going on with px displaying thyroid sx and many ppl fall through the cracks.
So, yeah, I "swung" one way then the other. Sorta looks like my body prefers the classic symptoms of Hypo now, anyway. It's all the same. Thyroid disease.
quickly grabbed this from about.com, it explains better than my brain can:
Some patients who have the autoimmune condition known as Hashimoto's thyroiditis are diagnosed during a period when they are hypothyroid.
But in a thyroid that is failing due to autoimmune disease, the thyroid can frequently sputter into overdrive, then back into underactivity, and into overdrive again, as it "burns itself out" over time.
You can, therefore, experience periods of overactivity - hyperthyroidism - even while your thyroid is underactive over time and generally on its way to burning itself out.
So, you can experience hypothyroidism symptoms, but periodically have hyperthyroidism symptoms that also appear.
And remember...hyperthyroidism symptoms don't "cancel out" your hypothyroidism symptoms...they more often are added to them.
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thanks. that is helpful.
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Many organs, especially hormone organs, are "not sure where they should be." So they waffle between high + low.
IMO a lot of time, $$$ + effort are wasted pushing up, down, all around. Few companies make supplements that can help rebalance wafflers, highs or lows. Two companies do, www.inno-vita.com + www.systemicformulas.com
Excellent book describing how this is done is: "New Dimensions in Herbal Healing " by Dr. Tips, ND.
TSH test ? A bad joke ? Many docs do not seek out the best things to do, they just do what everybody else does.
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