Comments on: Is grandpa sleepy? The innocent victims of the TSH lab.

By: Gary Rich

Gary Rich — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:11:21 +0000

I’m a grandpa, only 63, and have battled this thing for almost 9 years, and I worry a lot that my beautiful grandkids will know me as the “grandpa” who was always having to lay down, UGH!! I spent my entire life filled with energy and enthusiasm for everything, from work to play. And then they took my thyroid, and gave me a “storage hormone”. I just switched to natural thyroid, and am excited at the prospect of getting some of my life back, I hope. I did not hope much for this past 9 years. I just chuckle at the number of folks I talk to who way, they tested my thyroid, and……………… Jeez, how is that working for you??

By: Marlene McWilliams

Marlene McWilliams — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:14:08 +0000

I have hypo thyroidism. I am sleepy all the time, my legs are so weak I feel they wont hold me up. I am tired, irritible, My arms are weak, I don’t even feel like preparing myself some thing to eat. In 1999 I was diagonosed with Graves desease nd given radio active iodine to destroy the thyroid and now am Hypo. My thyroid has hit rock bottom and I feel I jaut can’t go on this way.

By: Catherine Clark

Catherine Clark — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:13:09 +0000

My mother-in-law was hugely overweight, fatigued, puffy, couldn’t concentrate, foggy brained, had constipation and gassiness; the list goes on and on. She died from a swift moving cancer, but her life, from my own experience, was lived in the fog of undetected hypothyroidism. As far as I know she was never, ever diagnosed, and if so, than she was grossly undertreated. I know from my own life lived the same way. I just have hope now that was never offered to her. She was an intelligent woman; she just didn’t appear that way most of the time because of her untreated medical condition. Shameful.