If you have symptoms of a hypothyroid or a combination of hypo and hyperthyroid symptoms and your lab tests come back normal, or your medication is not working, it may not be your thyroid that your problems. only one or two thyroid panels to determine whether or not you have the thyroid problem. even if they run the whole gamut of thyroid panels it may not give them the true cause of the problem.
Symptoms of hypothyroidism:
- fatigue
- weight loss even when dieting
- depression
- constipation
- sensitivity to cold
- poor circulation and numbness in hands and feet
- muscle cramps
- catch colds easily
- have slow wound healing
- require excess amount of sleep
- GI disturbances
- dry, itchy skin
- dry or brittle hair
- dry skin
- low body temperature
- edema, especially in the face
- loss of cutter most part of eyebrows
Symptoms of hypothyroidism:
- heart palpitations
- inward trembling
- increased pulse rate, even at rest
- feelings of nervousness or emotional distress
- insomnia
- night sweats
- difficulty gaining weight
A poor blood sugar (Hashimoto 's thyroiditis) or the enzymes that help process or facilitate the use of thyroid hormones. metabolism could also be caused your symptoms as well as gut infections, adrenal problem, and hormonal imbalances can all depress thyroid function. So if you are on Synthroid, Armor, or Levoxyl and your symptoms are not getting any better it might be time to run more tests.
If you have been an alternative healthcare professional they may have recommended iodine, thyroid glandulars or tyrosine but if your thyroid symptoms are not created by your thyroid this will offer a little help with can actually make your condition worse.
So what & # 39; s the answer to your thyroid symptoms if your thyroid is not actually causing the problem?
If you just have an endocrinologist or alternative health care professional and they are unable to help you then then you have something that may You may have more than one undercoming cause. You may have more than one undercoming cause. You may have more than things that you cause the symptoms that you are the cause. You one of the possible causes, and you stop testing, you may have missed something.
There are 12 cups on the table turned upside down, you can not see what & # 39; s underneath the cup. The rules of the game are this ... there is one least one ball under the cups, there may be more than one How many cups would you like to look under? The obvious answer is you would like to look under all 12 because you want to win.
The best way is to look everywhere the problem or problems may be.
The 4 Deal Breakers
The 4 deal breakers in every difficult chronic health condition are anemia, blood sugar metabolism, gut issues and liver and gallbladder issues. If you have a problem with any of these you have to handle them first, otherwise you & # 39; re just spinning your wheels.
After you have deal with the 4 deal breakers above, you can proceed on to the other possible causes.
A Good Word Picture
We can simplify that explanation by comparing the inter-workings by comparing the inter-workings of the thyroid to ordering something online.
You go online, find something that you want, and place your order. If you have not received your item within a reasonable amount of time you contact the person you placed your order with The person that you are indeed placed an order. TSH panel is TSH panel is simply verifying that your thyroid gland received an order to ship out thyroid hormone to your body.
But there are many other places where the problem may have occurred.
If the warehouse is damaged you may not get your package at all. This is a good case for using thyroid hormones.
If the delivery person, does not show up work or is unable to work it will affect you get get your package. If, when delivery person arrives to picks up the package , there are more boxes than it can receive in package a that. I am afraid that the delivery person takes your package to their central hub or warehouse for rerouting to its final destination, that warehouse is backed up that Once your package is handed off to the delivery person who is responsible for delivering it to your home, if you do not get to receive it, you do not get your package.
Now that & # 39; s a very simplified explanation to the process but I think it helps to see that there are many places where things can go wrong that have nothing to do with the thyroid itself.
Taking the above example you represent the brain, you send an order via your computer (hypothalamus), the message is forwarded to the operator (pituitary), who then relays the message to the warehouse (thyroid) where a worker (TPO enzyme) puts who delivers the package to the central hub or warehouse (liver, which can be sluggish, delaying your package). The next delivery person (TBG, again) delivers your package to it & # 39; s final destination (gut, reversed T-3 and the peripheral tissue).
If you do not have normal gut flora 20% of the thyroid hormone can not be used, it 's not being home when the delivery person attempts to deliver your package.
There are several other places where things can go wrong that were not mention in the story above. TBG proteins. It may not seem like a problem to have too many transport vehicles but when there is not enough of You may have a case where you have already too much of one thyroid hormone (T3, T4) and not enough of the other (over conversion or under conversion). You also have a situation where the thyroid hormone is delivered to the cell but the cell can not accept it because of the damage to the cell wall caused by inflammation or infections.
This problem happen for a body of reasons, you can can not have working properly. have a deficiency of cofactors, you can have gut dysbiosis, elevated cytokines, elevated cortisol, deficiencies of serotonin, deficiencies of dopamine or elevated testosterone (even in women).
So if you 're with suffering from thyroid symptoms in your medication continuously needs to be adjusted or not adjusted at all you may need to have further testing to find the underlying cause of your problem.
