> Bev Fields <[log in to unmask]>
>  I couldnt breathe, couldnt get enough air to
>  walk more than maybe half a block and my heart was enlarged.
I think a weak heart not circulating enough oxygen is what causes most of the
problems.  I believe this is why I constantly yawned.  (Even though a
cardiologist said my heart was fine, the fingertip thing that measures oxygen
in hospitals showed 100% when I tried it)

> I suspect I
>  had the problem for many years but as with many complaints from women, my
>  doctor passed my complaints of fatigue and depression off as being due to
>  stress.
Sounds like hidden male bashing.  One doctor told me I was fine, maybe I just
needed a little more exercise, another told me I worked too hard and my
fatigue was normal.  Actually, going the other direction I would say it's
much easier for women to be diagnosed.  At least when they have irregular
periods, it's thought of as a possibility and sometimes the TSH is elevated
so the woman is diagnosed.  It may be that it's considered primarily a
woman's disease because doctors have no reason to test males except for the
fatigue.  The costochondritis, the plantar fascitis I had didn't clue them in
to the possible problem.  The fatigue did but back then, but I had normal
TSH.  So, as a population, a larger proportion of men may go undiagnosed and
untreated with hypothyroidism because a rare problem is one rarely looked
for.  And it's looked for a lot less in men.



Skipper Beers

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