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Hi to all, Maybe you can help. I'm wondering how many People tested for Lyme, regardless if their tests were positive or not, suffer some sort of thyroid problems? I'm new to all this Lyme stuff and already I know two people both living in highly infected areas that one person, a young woman was diagnosed with a hypothyroid and the other one, my husband, is now being tested for a hyper-paraThyroid. Both people live in a household with at least 1 person with Lyme. Anyone else dealing with thyroid problems or have any thoughts or information on this.
I also have a hashimotos disease- autoimmune thyoid disease- basically hypothyoid with antibodies. I was diagnosed with it at 17. I cannot seem to get my thyroid regulated . . it just is impossible with lyme.
I believe that I had lyme as a teenager and have had it all these years . .and my endrocrine system was one of the first to go.
Hope that helps
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I also have a hashimotos disease- autoimmune thyoid disease- basically hypothyoid with antibodies. I was diagnosed with it at 17. I cannot seem to get my thyroid regulated . . it just is impossible with lyme.
I have hashimotos-autoimmune thyroid and am hypothyroid too. I had lyme for years before I ever had any thyroid problems. I also am having a hard time getting my thyroid regulated. I went from .5 to 115.60 in 5 weeks on my TSH. Crazy!!!
Kathy
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Hi, I also have Hashimotos hypothyroidism. Although at the moment my thyroid is functioning in the normal range without medication. Accoridng to labs at least
I have a strong family history of thyroid disease, and likely would have developed it at some point.
Lyme disease complicates my thryoid disease in numerous ways. Two examples:
Dysregulated immune system. With antibodies attacking the thyroid and thryoglobulin it is more difficult to treat/regulate the thyroid condition. I have been hyper and hypothyroid numerous times.
Chronic stress according to some results in impaired conversion of T4 into the bioactive T3. So although I have enough T4, my T3 tends to be on the low side. I feel better with T3 supplementation in the form of armour or cytomel, but can not tolerate it in the long run.
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I had my thyroid removed last summer (05) as there were 3 nodules on one side and 1 on the other. (There was a 1cm finding of cancer.)
I take 150mcgs Synthroid daily to supplement.
Have not been dxs with any TBDs yet. I see LLMD next week.
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