In order to qualify to be on this list below, these ALSO had to be symptoms which were totally eradicated when these same patients got on natural desiccated thyroid like Naturethroid, compounded, or others, and found their optimal dose:
- Less stamina than others
- Less energy than others
- Long recovery period after any activity
- Inability to hold children for very long
- Arms feeling like dead weights after activity
- Chronic Low Grade Depression
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Often feeling cold
- Cold hands and feet
- High or rising cholesterol
- Heart disease
- Palpitations
- Fibrillations
- Plaque buildup
- Bizarre and Debilitating reaction to exercise
- Hard stools
- Constipation
- No eyebrows or thinning outer eyebrows
- Dry Hair
- Hair Loss
- White hairs growing in
- No hair growth, breaks faster than it grows
- Dry cracking skin
- Nodding off easily
- Requires naps in the afternoon
- Sleep Apnea (which can also be associated with low cortisol)
- Air Hunger (feeling like you can’t get enough air)
- Inability to concentrate or read long periods of time
- Forgetfulness
- Foggy thinking
- Inability to lose weight
- Always gaining weight
- Inability to function in a relationship with anyone
- NO sex drive
- Failure to ovulate and/or constant bleeding (see Rainbow’s story)
- Moody periods
- PMS
- Inability to get pregnant; miscarriages
- Excruciating pain during period
- Nausea
- Swelling/edema/puffiness
- Aching bones/muscles
- Osteoporosis
- Bumps on legs
- Acne on face and in hair
- Breakout on chest and arms
- Hives
- Exhaustion in every dimension–physical, mental, spiritual, emotional
- Inability to work full-time
- Inability to stand on feet for long periods
- Complete lack of motivation
- Slowing to a snail’s pace when walking up slight grade
- Extremely crabby, irritable, intolerant of others
- Handwriting nearly illegible
- Internal itching of ears
- Broken/peeling fingernails
- Dry skin or snake skin
- Major anxiety/worry
- Ringing in ears
- Lactose Intolerance
- Inability to eat in the mornings
- Joint pain
- Carpal tunnel symptoms
- No Appetite
- Fluid retention to the point of Congestive Heart Failure
- Swollen legs that prevented walking
- Blood Pressure problems
- Varicose Veins
- Dizziness from fluid on the inner ear
- Low body temperature
- Raised temperature
- Tightness in throat; sore throat
- Swollen lymph glands
- Allergies (which can also be a result of low cortisol–common with hypothyroid patients)
- Headaches and Migraines
- Sore feet (plantar fascitis); painful soles of feet
- now how do I put this one politely….a cold bum, butt, derriere, fanny, gluteus maximus, haunches, hindquarters, posterior, rear, and/or cheeks. Yup, really exists.
- colitis
- irritable bowel syndrome
- painful bladder
- Extreme hunger, especially at nighttime
- Dysphagia, which is nerve damage and causes the inability to swallow fluid, food or your own saliva and leads to “aspiration pneumonia”.
As you read the above list and see some of the symptoms as your own, you have to now make a paradigm shift in the way society and doctors have taught you to ascertain whether you have hypothyroid or not, or whether you are adequately treated or not.
Namely, you have to make symptoms your primary clue, not labwork like the TSH. Labwork should only serve as additional information, NOT as the initial force of reality. If you continue to look at labwork as the answer, you are no better than hundreds of thousands of doctors around the world who have unwittingly kept thyroid patients sick! That is especially true for the TSH, besides the total T4.
Next, you find a doctor who’s ahead of the game, because he or she understands that symptoms are the horse that pulls the cart, not labs, and that desiccated thyroid is the treatment of choice, not Synthroid, Levoxyl, Levothyroxine, etc. You may have to drive farther to a good doc than any doctor you’ve ever had. But it’s worth it.
Additionally, no matter how excellent of a doctor you find, you need to become educated about what patients ahead of you have learned, and what mistakes you do not want to make. No doctor is perfect, so you are your own best advocate.
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