To describe the typical patient, they can be any age or gender. That is right, children can be low thyroid, but mostly adults present to my practice. I see most any age women and caution that the same amount of men have it, but they are more likely not to complain or seek care. Some authors estimate that there may be 50 million in our society. The most glaring reason is that nutrients, moreover the lack of complete nutrients is causing so much of the low thyroid syndrome. Be cautioned that if you are thinking of it after reading the following, you should try to prove that you don’t have it just to make sure.
I am sure I missed a goodly number by suggesting a few symptoms and moving on. There are more than 30 metabolic path ways that are affected and that is a lot of symptoms that can be partially present or still too subtle to show up in a questioning session.
Here are some of the symptoms. Remember they are not presented in the order of most prevalent to the least. This is a cluster of complaints that must be accompanied by an equally vague number of physical finding and a blood test that misses fully 20 per cent of cases that are sub-clinical yet able to raise the cholesterol and be a threat to the good function of the circulatory system. This can be checked out on the internet as well as found in current medical literature.
These patents are tired in-spite of their best efforts to rest, exercise and eat well. They are just slow to spark into action. They want or need energy and it is only half there. They eat to get bursts of energy which brings weight gain and accompanying sluggishness. What is worse they cannot loose weight in-spite of meager rations and major efforts to exercise, cut junk foods and sweets, sleep and live well. One author I read told that he so not trusted thyroid tests that he put his patients on Spartan diets and if they did not loose weight he started them on thyroid. This is met with great success and happy patients.
Next category: moods and memory. The moods are mostly down and way down to desperate. They don’t sleep and even if they can get to sleep they don’t rejuvenate from sleep. Well brain fog is the first sign and then on to forgetfulness and finally… being in a major daze. One professor at Columbia Medical School suggest that major percentages of nursing home admissions due to poor memory are due to low thyroid. He urges the use of blood tests to evaluate.. That is a fair idea. What about the 20 percent that are missed? Old age most always means reduction in thyroid activity. Much more is also present but if you would fix the thyroid the other symptoms would be considerably less.
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H. Hagglund MD
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