Long and Pathetic list of Hypothyroid Symptoms
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: This is an IRONIC list. Granted, these are hypothyroid symptoms experienced by patients. BUT, these are symptoms that patients have had WHILE ON Thyroxine T4-only meds (Synthroid, Levoxyl, Levothyroxine, Eltroxin, etc) and with a “target” TSH! Cough.
But there’s MORE! In order to qualify to be on this list below, these ALSO had to be symptoms which were totally eradicated when these same patients got on natural desiccated thyroid like Armour, Naturethroid, Thyroid-S or compounded, and found their optimal dose:
- Less stamina than others
- Less energy than others
- Long recovery period after any activity
- Inability to hold children for very long
- Arms feeling like dead weights after activity
- Chronic Low Grade Depression
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Often feeling cold
- Cold hands and feet
- High cholesterol
- Bizarre and Debilitating reaction to exercise
- Hard stools
- Constipation
- No eyebrows or thinning outer eyebrows
- Dry Hair
- Hair Loss
- Dry cracking skin
- Nodding off easily
- Requires naps in the afternoon
- Sleep Apnea (which can also be associated with low cortisol)
- Inability to concentrate or read long periods of time
- Forgetfulness
- Foggy thinking
- Inability to lose weight
- Always gaining weight
- Inability to function in a relationship with anyone
- NO sex drive
- Moody periods
- PMS
- Excruciating pain during period
- Nausea
- Swelling/edema/puffiness
- Aching bones/muscles
- Osteoporosis
- Bumps on legs
- Acne on face and in hair
- Breakout on chest and arms
- Hives
- Exhaustion in every dimension–physical, mental, spiritual, emotional
- Inability to work full-time
- Inability to stand on feet for long periods
- Complete lack of motivation
- Slowing to a snail’s pace when walking up slight grade
- Extremely crabby, irritable, intolerant of others
- Handwriting nearly illegible
- Internal itching of ears
- Broken/peeling fingernails
- Dry skin or snake skin
- Major anxiety/worry
- Ringing in ears
- Lactose Intolerance
- Inability to eat in the mornings
- No hair growth, breaks faster than it grows
- Joint pain
- Carpal tunnel symptoms
- No Appetite
- Fluid retention to the point of Congestive Heart Failure
- Swollen legs that prevented walking
- Blood Pressure problems
- Varicose Veins
- Dizziness from fluid on the inner ear
- Low body temperature
- Raised temperature
- Tightness in throat; sore throat
- Swollen lymph glands
- Allergies (which can also be a result of low cortisol–common with hypothyroid patients)
- Headaches and Migraines
- Sore feet (plantar fascitis); painful soles of feet
- now how do I put this one politely….a cold bum, butt, derriere, fanny, gluteus maximus, haunches, hindquarters, posterior, rear, and/or cheeks. Yup, really exists.
As you read the above list and see some of the symptoms as your own, you have to now make a paradigm shift in the way society and doctors have taught you to ascertain whether you have hypothyroid or not, or whether you are adequately treated or not. Namely, you have to make SYMPTOMS your primary clue, NOT labwork. Labwork should only serve as additional information, NOT as the initial force of reality. If you continue to look at labwork as THE answer, you are no better than hundreds of thousands of doctors around the world who have kept thyroid patients SICK! That is especially true for the TSH, besides the total T4.
Once you understand that SYMPTOMS are the clue, you can pursue correct and beneficial labwork as additional information.
Next, you find a doctor who’s ahead of the game, because he understands that SYMPTOMS are the horse that pulls the cart, not labs, and that desiccated thyroid is the treatment of choice. You may have to drive farther to a good doc than any doctor you’ve ever had. But it’s worth it.
Additionally…no matter how excellent of a doctor you find, you need to become educated about what patients ahead of you have learned, and what mistakes you do not want to make. NO DOCTOR IS PERFECT, so YOU are your own best advocate.
This bible of hypothyroid treatment contains most everything you will find on this site, plus a whole lot more, including a chapter on T3, an explosive doctor chapter, historical information on desiccated thyroid as well as T4, an entire chapter on the TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hooey), how to interpret your cortisol labs, extra details in two adrenal chapters, and more!
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