Can anyone please HELP me?
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Hello everytone, I am a 22 year old male, a university student. I really believe that I suffer from Hypothyroidism, these are my symptoms and I have been having it for the past 5 years. Lethargic, sleepy all the time, tight eyes (like when you wake up in the morning), memory fog (I am struggling with my degree as I am doing BSc Biochemistry final year, year by year I am getting bad results), cold feet and hands, red lips (sometime, like I have lipstick), no motivation, faster heart beat (around 90 or 95 bpm (done so may ecg, 24hr monitoring, everything was normal). In a blood test around 2 years ago, I was found out to have low b12 and I have been taking cyanocobalamin. couple of blood tests over the past year have shown my b12 levels are now in the normal range. However I still feel all the symptoms. I had a thyroid tests about 2 or 3 years ago but the doctor said everything is normal. I have been going to my GP every month literally to say the same things over and over but they keep saying, its because I am a student, am anxious about my exams or I have depression etc. I don't have any of these, I am more depressed now because nobody take me serious, they say I am lazy and depresse etc. I feel like commitiing suicide because I can't study, don't feel like going to work. My hair is also thinning very fast (but my dad is bald so I can understand), I feel like I have lost a few cm in heigh) My memory is getting bad day by day. Does anyone know what is wrong with me, I really think it is hypothyroidism (I have been learning about this disease during my course and it really helped my understanding), but I am not sure. Please give me any advice, I am fed up with my life!
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Caroline0407 remotheboss
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sara05235 remotheboss
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Ferritin
B12
Vit D
TSH
T4 and T3
Cortisol
TPO antibodies
For starters.
They may do in stages but push for them. In the meantime go to a good health food shop and buy best iron and vit b complex, magnesium , zinc and selenium.
Take daily.
Check through any results that are not in optimal range and address.
Hope you can use this to further investigation s. I know Exactly how you feel abs what's been going on is lack of nutrition and correct balance of key elements in your body.
Avoid caffeine , tea, drink pure water , herbal teas and almond milk. Avoid gluten dairy and soy whilst going through healing. Eat organic. Esp meats. Avoid processed foods and sugary foods to prevent adrenal stress.
I think with a careful attitude to rest and Ba lance you will slowly recover.
Thyroid and adrenal exhaustion often go together.
Hope this helps.
A lot of these areas are s bit grey for Gps and they don't kniw hiw to treat so do your own research online. It's very empowering to take your health back by your own awareness. Just because there's more you can do than big pharma will does not mean you shouldn't try.
Relax. All will get better.
Sara
gcowboy remotheboss
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sarah64985 remotheboss
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Maybe you should check that there isn't carbon monoxide in your
accommodation. This will make you feel tired and unwell too.
gill43753 remotheboss
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shellyC19 remotheboss
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barbara98940 remotheboss
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barbara98940 remotheboss
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barbara98940 remotheboss
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judy1959 remotheboss
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I am suggesting a blood blood panel if you haven't had one recent to check your over all health.
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sara05235 remotheboss
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First thing to do is get a full blood panel. Then you can decide the route for treatment you need.
Many people find with a tweak in minerals and vitamins, a diet and lifeste balance readdress and the necessary hormones you'll feel great.
We are delicate machines and when one system falls down the knock on effect can take a few months for the re stabilisation to take place.
Once you get there (im in the early stages as have had to have adrenal function tests before getting hypothyroid treated so v slow road) I'm sure you will feel back to normal self again if not better.
Take care. Keep optimistic.
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gill43753 remotheboss
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sara05235 remotheboss
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Make sure they check your vit levels. Too.
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barbara98940 gill43753
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remotheboss barbara98940
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barbara98940 remotheboss
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Be aware that it may take a few visits to an endocrinologist over a number of months to find out what is wrong - hormone levels can take 6-13 weeks to show up correctly in blood tests after a change in thyroxine, so I suspect other things do too. The objectives at your first visit are: to see if you have found a doctor to listen to you, answer your questions, take blood tests and give you ideas about what it may be, and suggest what you can do to help yourself in the meantime whilst you are enduring the process of investigating what is wrong.
What I hope I've conveyed, is that 'investigating what's wrong' is a process that takes time - it's not like having a chest infection where it's simple to find out what's wrong and how to fix it. One more thing, if the private endocrinologist doesn't know what's wrong, ask if you can try a therapeutic dose of 25mcg thyroxine to see if it improves how you feel (though take it after the blood tests). All the best for Monday!
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