Sluggish Thyroid?

[Mickey]

Does anyone have a sluggish thyroid? My blood work came in with this slightly recently.  Just wondering on any correlation. Mickey

[sharonov]

Mine is just fine.
Sharon

[lori67]

Mine doesn't work at all, but that's due to the radioactive iodine treatment I had to treat it when it was overactive.  I don't think my thyroid issues directly led to my AN, but I believe the radioactive iodine had a lot to do with it.

Lori

[Kaybo]

I had mine removed in 2006 - 11 years after my AN surgery...

K

[Jackie]

I had thyroid problems years and years ago. Mine was so off that I had to drink this awful tasting stuff to help give me an appetite, because I had none! Guess my thyroid is ok now because my appetite is too good! Hmmmmmm I wonder if there is any connection to my AN??? Interesting thought???
Jackie

[Rivergirl]

Sluggish thyroid here, up and down (along with my weight).

[Mickey]

Well anyhow I`ve been prescribed the lowest form of synthroid every other day and a blood recheck in 6 weeks. Lets see what happens? Something else I found out about out of the clear blue. , Best wishes , Mickey

[jtd71465]

Looks like we have something else in common Mike.


Your friend,



Joe-

[sharonov]

Ah, but do you all have deviated septums?  That was the last message where we tried to find a link.
Sharon

[Rivergirl]

I have been listening to CD's from the Symposium, one was risks for ANs and I was quite blown away.  There is a thread here about deviated septums and when I counted 20 out of 22 had a deviated septum.  Well the way you find out that you broke your nose is by x-ray, radiation exposure.  This speaker was saying children that get freq xrays when a child especially about the head have a higher risk of getting a cancer or tumor and one of the places is the thyroid.  When I was young I broke my nose so much and had 3 surgeries, lots of xrays..... and I have a crappy thryroid and an Acoustic Neuroma....don't you think this weird?

[sharonov]

OK, how did you break your nose 3 times?  I know young boys tend to get in a lot of fights, and some young girls do too (My sister and I fought all the time and she broke my nose)--but three times??  Wow!  I'm impressed.  And curious.

[Lyssa]

I was diagnosed hypothyroid at 12 (14 yrs ago) and have taken a low dosage of synthroid .05 mg since. My dosage has never changed and I have never even really thought about it. My mom and sister are also both hypothyroid. When my mom was a little girl she had some procedure done, this was back in the early 60's I guess. Something w/ radioactivity, she talked about it once and wondered if it caused her thyroid problems. I can't for the life of me remember what specifically it was tho.

[Rivergirl]

My mom also had some radiation for a thryroid when I was kid, she was suppose to stay quiet and away from us, she died about 8 years later from Cancer at age 44.
I broke my nose because I lived in a project outside Boston, we played hard, I was a Tom boy, the nose was broke more than 3 times, I had 3 surgeries.
Interesting these commonalities we all seem to have.

[lori67]

Sounds like they had the radioactive iodine treatment that I had.  I had mine about 17 years ago and I had to send my daughter to stay with Grandma for about a week.  I don't even know if they still do that anymore - I haven't heard of it.

Lori

[Rivergirl]

That sounds right Lori, there has to be something we are doing to ourselves ..........I guess a hundred years ago people died at 40 and through all this stuff we do now we live longer only to find out that we now end up getting weirder things.