Thyroid Connection to heart Disease or not?

[fluffypurrcat]

Hi, I am new to this forum, but I am new to these forums in general, but I started posting in the Heart Diseae forums first, in Mid April of this year. I just turned 55, ( May 28th,) and was diagnosed with Hashimotos in 2000 after probably having it for quite some time. 2000 was a bad year as I was laid off my teaching job because of my  on the job back injury and I haven't worked since. It allso seems that since my diagnosis of Hypo-Thyroid disease, I have just been suffering from one thing after another. Up unitll 1999, my health had allways been pretty good and I recovered quickly from things. The one thing I had was female problems and the fact I had two misscarraiges is probably related to the possiblity I had been suffereing from Thyroid problems for quite some time before being diagnosed.

        To get back to the subject at hand, I have heard for quite some time that there are connections between heart problems and people that have thyroid problems. I suffered the symptoms of a MI on April 2nd of this year, and due to the fact I was in denial and neither my husband called 911 or myself, I have been having a hard time getting a definite diagnosis, that I did in fact have a MI. I have had several tests, and am waiting for the results of an echocardiogram that I will find the results of on the 17th.

            I know that people that have Hypothryoidism tend to have problems with high cholesteral, and sometimes blood pressure as well. My husband says that there is a heart problem conncection too, and the little that I have read seems to be related to people that allready have preexisting heart disease and then getting thyroid problems and they have more problems. My questions is that if you are Hypo are you at a increased risk for developing heart disease problems, and if so what type and what other information can you give?

I do take blood pressure meds and also cholesteral meds, but the choesteral meds don't seem to be working. One of the other problems I have is that because I am vegetarian, I seem to be having a harder time and I dont know if there is a connection or not between my diet and my lack of success at cholesteral lowering or if it is just a general problem that we thyroid patients have.? I have so many questons and am so glad that I have found this forum as well. It seems that there are SO MANY CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT DISEASES OR CONDITIONS SINCE BECOMMING HYPOTHYROID!!!!!!!!                Thank you so much.                      Flluffypurrcat

[fluffypurrcat]

Hi, I am so glad I stopped here and took a chance someone else would have a clue of what is going on. I will go back to the heart forum as well as check out the forums there. I have other Thyroid issues and questions that I will ask about, so you haven't gotten rid of me yet. LOL. Seriously, living in a smaller town and not haivng dr.s who are allways willing to work with you, makes it harder even. I had a hard enough time gettting to see a Cardiologist,only  because I have an excellent Family Dr. who stood up for me and made the cardiologist see me, otherwise, I would be stuck with no tests even. Sometimes I wish I had another " attack" while in the dr.s office, just so I could get a diagnosis. It is terrible and frustrating, when a dr. thinks that he knows your body better than you do. After all, if you are my age, 55, don't suffer from anxiety or panic attacks, don't have GERD or other indigestion problems, how can they think . " Oh, it is just indigestion, anything but a heart issue, because you do not fit the typical pattern. The big problem is, if you do a lot of reading or googling, you will find that women do not fit the usual pattern of heart attack symptoms that most men do. In fact, women may not even experince chest pain, ( or squeezing pressure ) at all. Women also are more apt to be turned away from ERs and thought of as painic attack victims, or homonaly imbalanced.
Thank goodness there are some great female dr.s out there who are more update on women and heart disease and womens unique problems. Thanks for letting me ' Rant " some. I will be checking back with some other questions.        Fluffypurrcat

[Momto3]

No responsed on the Heart Forum yet : (    Hopefully, some of the members will add some suggestions, ideas and/or comments.  

Take care everyone!
connie

[Me967]

Connie Hi.  
Thanks for the post on the heart forum connecting the two.  So now you know where I am now.  LOL.  I am filling a lot better now.  Thank goodness; it's garden time.  As I said before we can our own fruits and veggies and hunt for our meat.  I like the taste better and you don't get all the garbage in your food then.  To many fillers and recalls.  This time of year is rough though along with fall when we start with the canners and get ready for deer season.  

Trying to keep the dogs out of the hot sun as much as possible.  They love going to the creek and come back all muddy.  YUK.  Hope Samson is fine.  We give ours ice cubes as treats in the summer.  Unfortunately this is the time for heat stokes with dogs more so than summer.  Glad to hear from you and take care.  Your friend;  Amy

P. S.  Will stop by soon.  Stay Cool.

[ChitChatNine]

Thanks Connie for stopping by .. !  Cheryl

[Momto3]

Hi everyone!

Some of you I know from the Heart forums, but others are new to me, so HELLO : )

I'm not sure of the relationship between cardiac problems and thyroid disorders, but since the heart and the thyroid are each part of a major body system (cardiac and endocrine) it wouldn't surprise me if there were correlations.  I have noticed quite a few posters on the Heart forums who are also dealing with thyroid issues.  I'll try and post a question over there to see what I can find out.....

Stay well and cool!!

Connie
P.S. Amy, nice garden ; 0

[ChitChatNine]

What a wonderful exchange of information!  I am going to invite the Heart Co-CL's to stop by and take a look just in case they have any add'l info to add ... You may see Momto3 or Smiley2000 come by .....

What a wonderful exchange of information .. thanks to all for such networking among yourselves!

WELCOME to the COMMUNITY .. I am sorry you are having heart issues with possible thyroid components .... this is a great place .... I'm sure we can lend a hand.

Cheryl - co-cl thyroid