For all you with hashi's
For all you with hashi's
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specialmom, Feb 17, 2012
I've suffered hypothyroidism myself.  The symptoms are so fun, aren't they?!  (not).  My professional background was in the mental health field and there was often a link to hypothyroidism and depression/ depression and hypothyroidism-----  hormones and brain chemistry obviously are linked.  Treat one, the other often gets better.  I'm always on the look out if the issue is resurfacing.  
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ducky406, Feb 17, 2012
I've had a horrible time with it (although not as bad as some). I've had severe periods of depression starting from the age of 7 where I was ... "passively suicidal." I wanted to die, I didn't want to live, but I wasn't going to act upon those desires. Between 6 and 12 I gained a lot of weight, I was clinically obese at 12. I was constantly falling behind my peers, always tired, horrible mood swings, horrible eczema, plus all the problems from the weight itself. My mom pushed for thyroid testing and all they would test for for several years was TSH. It was still in normal range so therefore I was normal. I would go into a dr office and be told I needed to eat better, exercise more, and loose weight- that would fix my problems. When I was about 19 I went half way crazy but my Tsh was only 7.0 and my T4 was still in "normal" range so they gave me sleeping pills, happy pills, and a shrink. After a year of that I was only a quarter crazy- back to my normal self and felt none of it was making any more of an improvement. Then, last year my hair started falling out so I went to my dr complaining of my hair falling out in clumps, being more tired than I've ever been in my life (10 hour sleeps and 3 hour naps) and begging for answers. She suggested it could be sleep apnea and fought about testing my thyroid. Then last June I went into the ER for a gallbladder attack and a lovely token dr actually gave a rat's *** about my symptoms telling me an under active thyroid could cause all my problems so he tested me and had a prescription waiting the next day. Talk about life changing, I could seriously kiss that guy! I'm currently feeling a little off- but still tons better than I ever felt and after explaining the difference my dr had to admit she was wrong and test for hashi's. It's nice to hear a dr say, ok I'm sorry you weren't just whining or crazy there is something wrong with you.
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