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central hypothyroidism anyone?

just wondering if anyone else on here has central hypothyroidism?  I also have secondary adrenal insufficiency and multiple endocrine imbalances--unless they are supplemented (DHEA, testosterone, etc.)  the levels will not stay up on their own.  I can get them into the normal ranges, stop the supplements---and the levels slowly drop back down.  I assume this is because the pituitary is just not doing the job and my body is not producing what it is supposed to do.

I feel like crap most of the time and deal with chronic pain---taking far more medication than I would like.    Just wondering if anyone out there is floundering with this same condition?
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Mine is apparently idiopathic---i had an MRI with contrasts that showed nothing---my endo said that sometimes some cells just stop working.      I did lose quite a bit of blood after having my third child---but she told me that if I had sheehan syndrome, that I would not have been able to have anymore children.

I just recently read an article about sheehan syndrome that said it can be mild---to severe---mentioned 3 different levels.  It also said that the symptoms can come on within days, or that it can take decades for the symptoms to come on---I would assume that would have to be someone with mild damage.  

The article also said that sometimes the pituitary hormones stop producing so slowly over time, and the symptoms come on so gradually, that some people don't even realize they have it, I guess until it gets bad enough to cause obvious symptoms.

I knew that my secondary adrenal insufficiency wasn't the most common thing---but I didn't know central hypothyroidism was so rare.

I have a number of deficiencies not only with my hormones, but also with certain vitamins and minerals.

My GI says I am "complicated."
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Central hypothyroidism is a rare cause of hypothyroidism. It's precise prevalence is unknown, but is estimated as 0.005% in the general population.  Numbers wise, estimated prevalence of approximately 1 in 80,000 to 1 in 120,000.

This is the most frequent cause of central hypothyroidism is a pituitary adenoma (benign tumour) accounting for more than 50% of cases in most of the studies.

Causes of central hypothyroidism:

Classic causes:

Space-occupying lesions (brain or pituitary; pituitary adenoma, craniopharygioma, etc.)
Radiation
Vascular disease (Sheehan syndrome, etc.)

Nonclassic causes:

Traumatic brain injury or subarachnoid hemorrhage
Drug-induced (bexarotene, carbamazepine, etc)
Growth hormone therapy
Infection (lymphocytic adenohypophysitis, lymphocytic hypophysitis)
Set point diseases (infant's born to mothers with inadequately controlled
Graves' disease, etc)
Genetic mutations
Idiopathic

In most cases, central hypothyroidism occurs concurrently with other pituitary hormone deficiencies.
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