Has anyone been through this?

[Gerri]

I am 45 years old, diabetic, have recently been diagnosed high blood pressure and my triglycerides are elevated. I have extremely dry skin. My hair is falling out, periods are irregular and when they do come they are extremely painful. I am fatigued and have no sex drive. I have gained 20 pounds in six months. My doctor checked TSH levels and says they are normal. Something is not right. He says it is definitely not my thyroid. Has anyone ever tried over the counter thyrozine. I saw this at Wal-Mart and wondered if it helped.

[Ken]

Hi Gerri,

See if you can find a health food shop that sells Himilayan Goji Juice in your area. Otherwise go www.gojibook.com and check out the product. Amazing stuff.

[Stephanie]

What is considered normal by some doctors and what you feel normal at can be 2 different things. What was your TSH? most people feel good around 1 or tow but some doctors will not treat until the patient is over 5. Sometimes even higher! If you still feel hypo...and you sound hypo to me, find another doctor.

[wayne smith]

Hi Gerri,
The normal range that doctors use is completely useless,i was on 400mcg of thyroxine aka synthroid and my TSH was still of the scale, you must visit www.stopthethyroidmadness.com and educate yourself on this disease as it will never go away until it is properly treated, or read my article, "armour thyroid gave me back my life"

[DrJoe]

Gerri wrote:

I am 45 years old, diabetic, have recently been diagnosed high blood pressure and my triglycerides are elevated. I have extremely dry skin. My hair is falling out, periods are irregular and when they do come they are extremely painful. I am fatigued and have no sex drive. I have gained 20 pounds in six months. My doctor checked TSH levels and says they are normal. Something is not right. He says it is definitely not my thyroid. Has anyone ever tried over the counter thyrozine. I saw this at Wal-Mart and wondered if it helped.

Hey Gerri,
I have never heard of throzine, but be very careful of what you take.
Your doctor took TSH and it fell into normal. What does that mean? Say the average American shovles 10 pounds of snow per week (which I just made up). I live in Florida and never shoveled snow in my life, am I abnormal? If you live in Alaska, maybe some shovel 100 pounds of snow per week. Or maybe don't shovel any at all because it would be a worthless task since it snows all the time. Are both abnormal. I would guess that most americans shovel more snow during the winter than summer, so are they normal only when the weather is just right to shovel 10 pounds of snow per week.

Lab analysis is a snapshot in time. It is also based on averages of a large group of people and has only minimal relivance to you the individual.

By your explanation of your symptoms and presentation, there is something going on. While many of the issues point to some sort of problem with your thyroid or thyroid hormones, that may be secondary problems that are being influenced by some other problem. So while treatment for your thyroid (in this hypothetical case) may very well be warranted, you would also need to address the underlying problem.

Bottom lineis this: there is something going on that needs to be addressed. You need to get educated yourself, as well as find a doctor that is capable of solving the problem and giving the appropriate treatment.

Using limited testing to find a problem is a poor way to locate the problem.

Throwing one specific drug or nutrient at a lable (also known as a diagnosis) is a very poor way to treat.

You need to find the problem, then do everything that is needed to solve that problem.