80 Hypothyroid Symptoms

Or why they might think it's your hormones. . .

Eighty symptoms of low thyroid disease.

Low thyroid or a thyroid that has ceased to do its job packs up a load of physical and emotional challenges for us to deal with and understand just why we feel the way we do. This list is pooled from several hypothyroidism resources. 

1. Dry, flaking skin, shiny scales
2. Constipation of bowels
3. Muscle, bones and joint pain
4. Osteoporosis
5. Extremities feel like dead weight after activities
6. Cannot hold a child for long
7. Carpal tunnel issues
8. Plantar fascitis, sore feet, or painful soles of feet
9. Period of recovery after activity long
10. Debilitating, odd reaction to exercising
11. Standing in one place intolerable
12. Legs swollen, not only ankles but upper thighs and hips
13. Abdomen swollen beyond belief then gone a few days later
14. Cannot work full time
15. Fatigue too soon in day
16. Sluggish always, run down
17. Exhaustion for no reason
18. Less stamina than others
19. Less energy than others
20. Dry hair, thinning at crown especially
21. Hair falling out
22. Hair breaks off and does not really grow
23. Nails peel or are very thin
24. Coarse hair when was not
25. Extremities cold
26. Hind end cold
27. Temperature before rising in morn lower than normal
28. Temperature all day lower than normal but higher than first reading
29. Even a 98.5 temperature reading means you have a low grade fever
30. Raised temperature as well, nothing consistent except exhaustion
31. Infections are more frequent, more difficult recovery
32. Sinus infections
33. Snoring increased
34. Sleep apnea
35. Shortness of breath
36. Tightness in the chest
37. Yawning seems to give oxygen – air hunger
38. Feeling of heart spells when heart is fine
39. Fluid retention creates CHF, Congestive Heart Failure
40. Blood pressure up, down, all around
41. Dry eyes and are sensitive to light
42. Eye tics
43. Eye jumping causes headaches and vertigo
44. Nerve damage that causes inability to swallow properly, leading to aspiration pneumonia
45. Feelings of throbbing, pulsing, tightness in neck and throat
46. Sore throat
47. Swollen lymph glands
48. Itching internal ears
49. Ringing in ears
50. Vertigo
51. Headaches, migraines
52. Light-headed
53. Cannot read for a long time
54. Cannot stay awake to read
55. Memory going
56. Concentration and focus gone
57. Cannot really function in a relationship
58. Every part of one is exhausted, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually
59. Finding oneself irritable with others, mind is pressed too much to breathe
60. Depression that is chronic, low grade, tiring
61. Suicidal thoughts
62. No sex drive
63. Menstrual cramps are severe, flow heavier, more frequent
64. Miscarriage or infertility
65. Difficult to eat in morning, stomach discomfort
66. Irritable bowel and/or colitis
67. Lactose intolerant
68. Allergies (Stop the Thyroid Madness notes this can be a result from low-cortisol as that is common with hypothyroid patients
69. Cholesterol rising
70. Excessive, unexplainable weight gain
71. Difficulty losing weight
72. Exhaustion after eating
73. Terrible gnawing hunger a few hours after eating well
74. Extreme hunger, especially after dinner in evenings and later in night
75. The science does not add up — calories + lifestyle and movement = weight
76. Swollen legs
77. Varicose veins
78. Bumps on legs
79. The body pools blood and swells in the middle especially
80. Edema and swelling that cannot be ignored or controlled.

Such a pretty gland. And powerful.

My hypothyroidism experiences.

I am post-menopause, just had my two-year birthday. Except for infertility, miscarriage, severe cramps with menstrual flow and my thinning hair actually falling out, I had every symptom, plus irritability.

Using the natural progesterone cream helped some with a few symptoms, but I knew something was wrong when other women had fine results from the progesterone cream, when I had very few results.

So yes, I had too many symptoms from hypothyroid to consider that living in this great body was actually fun. Feeling the chronic depression, the exhaustion, the very real gnawing ‘hunger’ that was not really hunger or even appetite when a meal was only an hour in my body, feeling the sense of losing the battle after fifty years or trying desperately to get the physical under control…. too tiring, truly depressing and for good reason. 

But now I have hope and the symptoms are being relieved. I know enough from the research done in the last three months to understand the symptoms are the only true test of my hypothyroid improvement.  One site that has helped me understand is Stop the Thyroid Madness.com

If you suspect thyroid for yourself, you need the right tests and treatment.  Please do not stop until you find help.   Don’t let them stop with a basic blood test.  Don’t let the TSH be the end all of your treatment.  Keep going because it is your life draining away.  I know.

I am not a professional.  But I do believe that when the thyroid is compromised, the heart is going to be weakened. You can regain your health, I believe.   I will continue to post as I move along in my therapy.   For now, I can say I feel so much better and I feel hope at last.

Essa Adams

UPDATE::: After two months on general, alopathic therary(Western medicine) for hypothyroidism, I can tell that I am recovering.  The last two days I was able to rake and garden for one half hour a day.  That when only one minute left me cry from frustration and exhaustion.  We still need to deal with cortisol and DHEA and my thyroid medication will be raised a tremendous amount then switched to a natural resource, but the changes thus far are incredible.  I have lost fourteen pounds without changing the food or adding exercise of any kind as I was not able to stand excerise until this week.  I can dress myself after a shower.  You see, that is how tired I was.  It was shower OR dress.  If I showered, I just stayed in a robe for a few hours, I was too exhasted to do more.  Just trying to show that it can get rough and I am better.

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