SYMPTOMS

LIST OF MY PERSONAL SYMPTOMS

 Like I've talked about in my last posts, doctors could not figure out what was wrong with me for the longest time. It didn't help that they were arrogant and/or didn't look into it at all. I felt like I was on the show 'Mystery Diagnosis' (on TLC I think) where I had all these weirdo symptoms that didn't make sense until I knew it was my thyroid. 

Symptoms of your body having a thyroid issue. I will be leaning more towards hyperactive thyroid, but through the years I've felt that my thyroid has gone back and forth from under to over active.

My personal symptoms that were consistent:
~Depression (sometimes low grade, sometimes almost to the point
             of wishing I wasn't alive anymore)
~Anxiety
~Brain fog
~Bad memory (EXTREME forgetfulness)
~Hair falling out (I lost at least half of my hair in the last 9 months. Luckily I have new sprouts all over)  
~EXTREME fatigue
~Dry skin
~Brittle hair
~Body aches all over
~Headaches
~Feeling hot and hot flashes
~Heart palpitations and fast pulse
~Digestive issues
~Thinning outer eyebrows 
~Low sex drive 
~Dry nails
~Moodiness, irritable (my poor husband, he was a trooper)

Other things I think are linked to my 
thyroid are:
~Gal bladder problems (I had to have mine removed because there was 20+ gal stones sitting in my gal bladder waiting to torture me)
~Weight loss (my weight got down to 109 lbs, I was okay with that, some people thought I looked like I had an eating disorder)
~ Problems losing weight (esspecially when I'm nursing my babies for the first year of their life)
~Always cold, feeling cold when other people feel normal (I think my thyroid was under active when I had this)
~Whenever I would go on birth control (I tried many kinds), even an IUD, my emotions would be all over the place. Major PMS symptoms, but all the time.
~Morning sickness. I've had it with all my pregnancies. I've read that some doctors think that 80% of morning sickness cases can be linked to thyroid problems, even if your thyroid is just off during your pregnancy

List of some symptoms for both hypo and hyper thyroid

The body sends signals to you in the form of unpleasant symptoms to let you know things are not right with your body. That something is wrong. I believe you are not supposed to suffer through things for the rest of your life. I think their are lots of ways to make things right in your body, not just western medicine. I'm not against western medicine, I'm open to all forms of healing. I will in my next post list what I am taking that is helping my symptoms lessen dramatically, or go away all together.