Continuing from previous Q and Q
>>I was asking primarily about the possibility of permanent brain damage.
When supplementation is restored, would the damage be repaired or is it
permanent?<<

My experiential answer -- I may know more later this week after the family
member goes back to the neurologist who diagnosed the disorientation and
memory loss as "due to insufficient oxygen."  The extremely low blood
pressure and "anemia" happened during the time the family member physically
and mentally and emotionally deteriorated after her regular doctor put her on
one-third the prior dosage of synthroid because of her TSH !!!!!  (For some
reason the hypos in the family don't get decent TSH readings.)  The
month-long hospitalization started at the end of April.  Along with
everything else including very low blood pressure, she had brain fog to the
extreme.  In mid-May when we learned of the dosage situation, two of us
demanded that the regular doctor increase her thyroid med dosage and make
sure she got it on an empty stomach.  This was continued when she went home.
By this week the family member has shown increased physical strength, much
less disorientation and much improved recent memory.  Yesterday she said,
"See, I can remember what happened ten minutes ago."  Her regular doctor may
credit the Dentine sugarless gum chewing (one of the doctor's cute
experiments), but I credit the increased (but still insufficient, as far as I
can see) thyroid med dosage.  I can't be around all the time to see what
brain functions are still impaired.

A friend told me that her 95 year old mother was expected to die.  She was
mentally gone and physically going.  They put her on enough thyroid med and
at 95 she regained her strength (gets around with a walker and without
Depends), and she has her total wits about her.

From what I understand from folks in the science fields (biology, neurology),
once a brain cell dies, it is dead.  Once an area of the brain dies, it is
dead.  New pathways of electronic impulses can be created in some situations.
 Efforts are being made to do that for stroke (including TIAs) victims
through new types of physical and occupational rehab.  If the family member
has lost brain cells from the thyroid supplement reduction that resulted in
insufficient oxygen, I hope she can develop new synaptic pathways.

I wonder now how many "Alzheimers' " victims actually needed thyroid
supplement.

SloMoPeg

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