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Under active thyroid

walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
edited March 2013 in General Discussion
My wife has a thyroid problem.
She had this for 20 some years and was being treated for depression.
Little by little she got to the point where she did not do anything.
Always tired and never left the house except one time by ambulance 2 months ago.
2 weeks intensive care, 1 week recovery and 2 weeks rehab.
She's home now, oxygen tanks and all.

What causes the thyroid to slow down, like my wife's to 15%.
A smoker all her life but the doctors said, there is no scientific proof that caused the thyroid to slow down.
The doctor really don't know, except for heredity.
When on oxygen she can hold her blood oxygen level to 97/98.
When she's off it, it drops to the 80's and under like a lead balloon.

Anyone else have any info on this?

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  • pietro75pietro75 Member Posts: 7,048 ✭
    edited November -1
    First, I am sorry that you guys are dealing with this.

    What dose of medicine does she take?

    Does she see an endocrinologist?


    My wife takes synthroid and has since she was 18. I know right away if she skips a dose or as in recent, she needed to up her dosage. I knew something was up as she lacked the energy she usually displays.
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,404 ******
    edited November -1
    hormones affect the thyroid.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mine has been bad for years. Around 12 at least that is when they found it. had symptoms for may years before that. They gave no reason why. But I was a smoker for a lot of years. Do not need Oxygen as lungs are working great. Been on Synthroid since the beginning and have had to have levels changed from time to time. Up some years and lower some others. Have a blood check about 2 times a year.
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  • jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,337 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am having issues with an under active thyroid now. It seems to be getting worse and the medicine I take is getting upped as I am now at 112MCG Levothyroxin. I can tell my energy is down as well as my memory.
    I am 49 years old an one of my sisters has it also and the other doesn't. I think it comes from my grandmother on my mothers side as she had it.


    I am having a lot the the Symptoms listed here.
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001393/
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by jltrent
    I am having issues with an under active thyroid now. It seems to be getting worse and the medicine I take is getting upped as I am now at 112MCG Levothyroxin. I can tell my energy is down as well as my memory.


    My current dose is .2 MG.
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  • walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    She is taking 1 tablet of levothyroxine 175 mcg for the thyroid
    And 1 tablet twice a day of ferrous sulfate 325 mg (iron)


    quote:Originally posted by pietro75
    First, I am sorry that you guys are dealing with this.

    What dose of medicine does she take?

    Does she see an endocrinologist?


    My wife takes synthroid and has since she was 18. I know right away if she skips a dose or as in recent, she needed to up her dosage. I knew something was up as she lacked the energy she usually displays.
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  • pietro75pietro75 Member Posts: 7,048 ✭
    edited November -1
    If she is still smoking, she better be careful of the wait period from the time she takes off the oxygen till the time she lights up.

    My Uncle blew up his esophagus. He waited ten minutes from the time he would take off his rig till the time he lit up. Apparently, the oxygen had settled in his nose and BOOM! It was a terrible recovery.
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  • pietro75pietro75 Member Posts: 7,048 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    quote:Originally posted by jltrent
    I am having issues with an under active thyroid now. It seems to be getting worse and the medicine I take is getting upped as I am now at 112MCG Levothyroxin. I can tell my energy is down as well as my memory.


    My current dose is .2 MG.



    Trista also takes .2

    Wallie, Has she managed her medicine well over the years?
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    just cause I had to look it up .2 MG = 200 MCG.

    Also to add .2 is my lowered dosage it was almost twice as High.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had to deal with this for about ten years and it is a real bad ailment.

    Most docs don't know jack about treating the thyroid.

    I have gotten mine cured, by the good work of Dr. Biddle of Asheville NC.

    Lots of things can cause hypothyroid. Mine was caused by lead poisoning. So, first I had to treat the lead poisoning, before I could fix the thyroid.

    Fatigue, depression, mental confusion, feeling cold all the time...
    I know the symptoms all to well it is a real bad disease.

    If anyway possible, go see Dr. Biddle.
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The SPo2 levels have nothing to do with her low thyroid function IMHO.

    She probably has COPD, or emphysema from all the years of smoking.
    Two totally different issues.
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here she is when we went on a cruise 15 years ago.
    We had a great time but she would not leave that cabin
    Cruiseto_zps7347da74.jpg
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  • pietro75pietro75 Member Posts: 7,048 ✭
    edited November -1
    As for cabins on cruise-lines, that is primo!
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  • woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was Hyperthyroid In 1991
    Took Radiation Capsule About 6 Months later Went Hypo....
    tried to Hang Myself
    been On levothyroxine .150 Ever since
    Sane as the Rest of yous Now..[:I]
    Watch out For Depression For over or Under thyroid Conditions
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  • woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by woodshed87
    Was Hyperthyroid In 1991
    Took Radiation Capsule About 6 Months later Went Hypo....
    tried to Hang Myself
    been On levothyroxine .150 Ever since
    Sane as the Rest of yous Now..[:I]
    Watch out For Depression For over or Under thyroid Conditions
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Also I recommend you get her off the synthetic and get her on the real thyroid medicine, called Armour thyroid. Most endocrinologists will not prescribe Armour, and that is just one reason I dislike them.

    She wouldn't leave the cabin on the cruise. I know that feeling well; I was that way for 10 years. That hypothyroid is just a bad disease.
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