Anyone Dealing with Thyroid related symptoms? HELP!

[longleggedgiraffe]

I am 37 and Doc says I don't have hypothyroidism, yet I have a lot of symptoms and my TSH is getting into the high range of normal. also Free T4 is .8 as of last year. I'm in the middle of switching docs and my appt is about 3 weeks away. My symptoms consist of fatigue, scalloped tongue, heart palpitations, joint pain, brain fog and the list goes on and on. Also, my mom, both grandmas, and great grandma had hypothyroidism and a cousin has Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. My mom also has other auto immune diseases. Anyone out there with a little insight that may have some input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks 

[Penwoir]

I am 37 and Doc says I don't have hypothyroidism, yet I have a lot of symptoms and my TSH is getting into the high range of normal. also Free T4 is .8 as of last year. I'm in the middle of switching docs and my appt is about 3 weeks away. My symptoms consist of fatigue, scalloped tongue, heart palpitations, joint pain, brain fog and the list goes on and on. Also, my mom, both grandmas, and great grandma had hypothyroidism and a cousin has Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. My mom also has other auto immune diseases. Anyone out there with a little insight that may have some input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks 

I know a little bit about activities of the thyroid.  My sister (twin) started off with hyperthyroidism and now has hypothyroidism. It started in her late 30's about 6 months after having a baby. They say they don't really know what causes the hypers/hypos but in the case of my sister, they suspect it was having the baby that triggered the issues.  There is of course some evidence that genetics are involved. Initially, with hyper, she got a rapid heartbeat, she was endlessly hungry and kept eating but was losing weight rapidly. She lost all her muscle tissue. She couldn't pick up a cup of tea without her hands shaking. She had an additional problem connected to the hyper called graves disease which made her eyes pop. What I mean by that is she always felt pressure  behind  her eyes and had a huge sensitivity to light. She was treated with a block and replace therapy which slowed her heartbeat back to normal. The "replace" part of her treatment was the manual administration and 'overide' of thyroid hormones. They say that after people have been on this treatment for 6 months or so, 50% of them come of the pills and are cured, and this was the case with my sister, except that after she got pregnant a second time, the issue returned 6 months after she miscarried. So she opted for stronger treatment with radioactive iodine which was the best treatment ever. The only downer was that she had to stay in seclusion (at home) for about a week until the radioactive-ness subsided - so that she she wouldn't pass this onto her young child.  6 months later she was cured of hyper, but because of the huge dose she opted for, she ended up hypo! Symptoms include weight gain, fatigue, course/dry skin, slower pulse than normal and sensitivity to cold. They treat this easily with pills which she has taken now for 9 years and will take forever more.  She has settled in the upper range of normal - for the record her private doctor in the UK (where we're from) said that you'd have to be way out of the normal range before you felt any symptoms of hyper/hypo. Many people have it for years and don't even know it.  Anyways, she's great now.  For the record she had another baby - he is now 3.  Hope this info helps!

[champak97]

The symptoms that you mention seem like thyroid symptoms, but could also be due to Vitamin D deficiency. My husband recently was diagnosed with a Vitamin D deficiency and was given a prescription for 50,000IU of Vitamin D for 12 weeks. You can check your basal body temperature early in the morning, first thing when you get up, and if it is consistently low, then you can talk to your doctor about this. Hope this helps.