> Bonnie Barbieri <[log in to unmask]>
>
The pain
> ranges from moderate (after being off my feet for the night) to severe.
> Hypothyroid, yes, but I don't know if it is only related to that.
Common problem, mine was diagnosed as plantar fascitis but the inflammation
went away with armour thyroid. (Unfortunately, 4 years of plantar also
caused bone spurs which thyroid can't cure, fortunately I'm not walking on
them as the podiatrist says, but I can feel them sometimes anyway.) One of
my sons always complained of foot pain and doesn't now that he's treated in
spite of normal TSH.
In the
> early spring when I began riding my bike again my toes turned blue,
vascular
> studies indicated arterial blockages in the mild range.
My mother's hands were awfully blue and eventually she needed oxygen in her
apartment. I suspect it can have to do with lack of oxygen from the low
thyroid. If the heart doesn't have enough energy to pump blood properly you
have a low oxygen condition.
(Perhaps my local
> doctors should have looked at those elevated cholesterol levels that went
> untreated for years) Was told to continue to exercise, exercise, exercise.
> I did, and did and did again.
Yep, most doctors are morons and blame YOU for your health problems,
especially the overweight and fatigue of hypothyroidsm.
Two weeks ago the pain was so severe after
> driving in the car for 4 hours I had tears in my eyes. I went back to the
> doctor who felt it wasn't vascular in nature, rather perhaps a peripheral
> neuropathy
My foot pain went away within 2 months of switching to Armour, my hip pain,
an inflammed burning feeling particularly when driving or sitting for a long
time as well as my chest pain didn't go away until I was around 6 grains of
Armour.
> possible B12 deficiency
Some doctors give this to mask thyroid deficiency, my wife show improvement
on the B12 shots and low B12 is known to be associated with low thyroid. Now
that she gets thyroid she doesn't need B12.
, spinal stenosis
An arthritis specialist x-rayed my wife and diagnosed spinal arthritis.
Strange how it disappeared with thyroid treatment. As one doctor said, "docs
make stuff up all the time."
> Last based on the above tests
> will have a nerve conduction study if nothing else is found. My belief is
> that I was untreated and undertreated for hypothyroidism for years and am
> now
> living with residual results.
It could be. How's your temperature now? Timed release T3 has worked well
for me and my wife, but some need armour and maybe even synthroid. As far as
I know it's not the answer for everyone. (On the other hand, I don't know
that it's not.)
So, are you taking the T3 faithfully every 12 hours, charting your
temperature to arrive at the 98.6 objective, cycling down if appropriate.
(some docs don't care fi people cycle down but if you go too high you get
dizzy, your heart's faster than it should be and when yuo do cycle down you
find when you go back up, you don't need to go as high. And the lower the
dose, the better from a steadiness standpoint.
The other thing of course, is time may eventually heal you if you stay
properly treated. Not everything goes away immediately. (Or do they when
you get to a high enough dose, my hip pain took 3 years to go away, or did it
go away immediately when increasing to 6 grains like my chest pain did.) I'm
sure some things take longer than others.
> I am currently on time released T3 and this is the best
> I have felt in a very long time. Now if I could only get rid of these last
> few painful symptoms!!
Just make sure you follow the protocol properly, it may not be necessary to
ever wean completely off the T3, but I think some cycles are important to at
least get your need down to a lower level of dosage, and keeping track of
temps is also important. Before my wife and I started this treatment (and I
waited to see what it did for her since if anyone has ever had Wilson's
Syndrome, based on Wilson's description it was her) I queried everyone I
could find who received Wilson's treatment. It was hard to find success
stories because some of them never cycled, others discontinued treatment even
if they were feeling better on the cycles. (Which I might think is foolish if
I didn't know in the middle of a hypothyroid episode people are not foolish,
they are plain stupid not very capable of logical thought. So if they
declined when they cycled down, the brain forgot to tell them they felt
better on it and maybe it's time to cycle back up. I'm pretty sure that's
why people didn't stay on it. It seems to me that in the midst of being
practically comatose from hypothyroidism people really never quite realize
they are close to death and aren't able to do anything but sleep in that
chair or sit on that couch. That's probably why we let ourselves be treated
poorly by doctors, our brains are too tired to realize how bad off we really
are.
Skipper Beers
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