Hello all -
Don't forget to check with your clinician to ensure any weight gain is not the result of an underactive thyroid. Even if you do check with your clinician, they STILL may miss it. It happened to me. I suffered five, long miserable years with an underactive thyroid. I gained weight at a remarkable rate. I was sleepy all the time, waking up groggy and unrefreshed. I even suffered cognitive difficulties, on my way to becoming a modern day Cretin. I had been to urgent care centers, private offices, and spent hundreds of dollars on visits, MRIs, etc and the attending clinicians (I refuse to call a Nurse Practitioner or "Physician Assistant" a doctor, and that's all we get these days when we go) missed my physical ailment, thyroid. It was not until a relative suggested I be tested for hypothyroidism, and I did, at one of the many local self-pay self testing labs. If you are unaware of these labs, there is at least one in every city, and in rural areas- they are the same labs used for work drug testing: Sonora Quest, LabCorp, and so on. They test for everything! not just drugs. Anyone can use the labs, and I without health insurance, thanks Obummercare, I have to get creative when it comes to health care.
My thyroid had gone undiagnosed, misdiagnosed for literally years. No one found what was wrong, no professional even hinted at what it could be. By the way, my pharmacist told me that hypothyroidism drugs are THE most prescribed drug she provides at her location. What the heck's going on? so, every American has thyroid disease? < that's another topic
The underactive thyroid also contributed to diabetes, which no one in my family has ever suffered from, none of my grandparents, aunts, uncles nor cousin.
Since I have been taking the medication to treat underactive thyroid I have lost over 30 lbs.
Check with your doctor, but also check thyroid- your doctor may miss that too.
Don't forget to check with your clinician to ensure any weight gain is not the result of an underactive thyroid. Even if you do check with your clinician, they STILL may miss it. It happened to me. I suffered five, long miserable years with an underactive thyroid. I gained weight at a remarkable rate. I was sleepy all the time, waking up groggy and unrefreshed. I even suffered cognitive difficulties, on my way to becoming a modern day Cretin. I had been to urgent care centers, private offices, and spent hundreds of dollars on visits, MRIs, etc and the attending clinicians (I refuse to call a Nurse Practitioner or "Physician Assistant" a doctor, and that's all we get these days when we go) missed my physical ailment, thyroid. It was not until a relative suggested I be tested for hypothyroidism, and I did, at one of the many local self-pay self testing labs. If you are unaware of these labs, there is at least one in every city, and in rural areas- they are the same labs used for work drug testing: Sonora Quest, LabCorp, and so on. They test for everything! not just drugs. Anyone can use the labs, and I without health insurance, thanks Obummercare, I have to get creative when it comes to health care.
My thyroid had gone undiagnosed, misdiagnosed for literally years. No one found what was wrong, no professional even hinted at what it could be. By the way, my pharmacist told me that hypothyroidism drugs are THE most prescribed drug she provides at her location. What the heck's going on? so, every American has thyroid disease? < that's another topic
The underactive thyroid also contributed to diabetes, which no one in my family has ever suffered from, none of my grandparents, aunts, uncles nor cousin.
Since I have been taking the medication to treat underactive thyroid I have lost over 30 lbs.
Check with your doctor, but also check thyroid- your doctor may miss that too.
