Help me remember

[paradise lost]

Other symptoms of a slow thyroid would be:

-exhaustion
-aching joints and muscles, weakness of limbs
-modest weight gain or difficulty losing weight
-hair thinning and loss of outer 3rd of eyebrows
-feeling the cold more
-feelings of depression - inability to "face" the day, that sort of thing, rather than the sadness, more the lack of empowerment
-brain fog, forgetfulness, inability to think of the word you want
-sore neck or throat or full or strange sensations in the neck when swallowing
-bruising easily and healing from all bruises and wounds more slowly
-puffy upper eyelids
-stuffiness of the nose and frequent sinus infections
-loss of fitness or more difficult to improve fitness

Lots of people get a bunch of them, some people only get one or two and occasionally you get someone who doesn't get any, despite having a slow thyroid. We sound pretty similar re: sleep. I just feel because i'm a single parent "my" time is after she goes to bed, and i really don't want to lose 3 hours of it because i'm in bed, but i think my body's telling me i need to...

Bx

[Nadine216]

Thanks

I don't really know how many of that symptoms I have ... I forget

No, serious:
- exhaustion
- difficulty losing weight (could be that I am just eating to much shyyyt)
- the whole brain fog line
- bruising and healing
- puffy upper lids (also could be from lack of sleep exhaustion)
- some of the sinus things
- ????? on the fittness. I just do what I am doing. I'm not really trying to improve my fittness, just keep it, kwim????

I'll phone my gp right now.

[paradise lost]

Yeah call your doc. The eyelids thing is quite noticeable, it feels HARD to keep your eyes open and you look sleepy the whole time...? The weight thing - i actually lost my appetite with it (everything seemed to take ages to digest and i hated feeling full and uncomfy - ooh! Constipation - another symptom!!!) BUT because i was exhausted, when i DID snack it tended to be on high-sugar things, to "give me a lift" so that will have been adding calories...

Re: the fitness thing, that's more of a personal one, not noted, but my GP did say he wasn't sure how i was managing to keep training for my half marathon when i was ill - it took me WAY longer to increase my distances than it should have and instead of adjkusting and getting fitter my body just kept getting injuries. I'm still the sort of person who needs 3 weeks at the gym to "come back" after a week off, even medicated, so maybe some of it's genetic?

It's not at all uncommon after we have a bub for cracks in the thyroid system to show. Best of luck getting it sorted - mneantime SLEEP more - when i was exhausted with my thyroid i was sleeping 11 hours a night and STILL couldn't get off the sofa most days, unless it was to run.

Bx