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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jan 16, 2017 9:46:19 GMT -5
Do Thyroid problems make you stupid? That's the main thing I've been having issues with the past year or two. Ok...maybe stupid is not the correct term, how about...brain dead. Seriously, I have spent more time on boards the past year because I can't focus on anything else. I get distracted by everything and I want to kill all my cube mates. Ok, maybe not thyroid. Maybe I'm just getting to be an old crab ass. More like a brain fog. With my job, I needed to do mental math quickly. Leading up to the thyroid problems, I found myself taking out the calculator more than I normally would. I also got distracted easily if I was reading something boring or complicated.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 9:52:06 GMT -5
That's really the only issue I've been having, otherwise I feel fine.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 10:30:29 GMT -5
Ok, scratch that. My carpal tunnel has been really bad the past year. I got it with both pregnancies but it would go away, now it's back to the point that I even bought braces last year. I've only had pain once for a few days, normally it's just numb hands waking me up at night, but it's been much worse. I didn't think there could be any correlation, but I Googled carpal tunnel and thyroid and there are.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jan 16, 2017 10:40:26 GMT -5
Do Thyroid problems make you stupid? That's the main thing I've been having issues with the past year or two. Ok...maybe stupid is not the correct term, how about...brain dead. Seriously, I have spent more time on boards the past year because I can't focus on anything else. I get distracted by everything and I want to kill all my cube mates. Ok, maybe not thyroid. Maybe I'm just getting to be an old crab ass. More like a brain fog. With my job, I needed to do mental math quickly. Leading up to the thyroid problems, I found myself taking out the calculator more than I normally would. I also got distracted easily if I was reading something boring or complicated. This is me. My thyroid is borderline so I'm not sure if it is related. I always joke that I have adult ADHD. But it's honestly not funny. I'm always afraid it will impact me professionally. So far I am able to work around it (very good "to do" lists, closing my office door so I don't get distracted...and I'm a CPA so no one blinks when I use a 10 key to do math!lol)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 10:45:29 GMT -5
More like a brain fog. With my job, I needed to do mental math quickly. Leading up to the thyroid problems, I found myself taking out the calculator more than I normally would. I also got distracted easily if I was reading something boring or complicated. This is me. My thyroid is borderline so I'm not sure if it is related. I always joke that I have adult ADHD. But it's honestly not funny. I'm always afraid it will impact me professionally. So far I am able to work around it (very good "to do" lists, closing my office door so I don't get distracted...and I'm a CPA so no one blinks when I use a 10 key to do math!lol) I've been telling the kids I have early onset Alzheimers. At first I was joking...then I started to get worried about it. My son is always filling in words when I'm talking to him because I can't think of the right one.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jan 16, 2017 10:51:43 GMT -5
This is me. My thyroid is borderline so I'm not sure if it is related. I always joke that I have adult ADHD. But it's honestly not funny. I'm always afraid it will impact me professionally. So far I am able to work around it (very good "to do" lists, closing my office door so I don't get distracted...and I'm a CPA so no one blinks when I use a 10 key to do math!lol) I've been telling the kids I have early onset Alzheimers. At first I was joking...then I started to get worried about it. My son is always filling in words when I'm talking to him because I can't think of the right one. OMG...I've said the same thing to my oldest...then I start to worry because my mom actually has early onset dementia and it sure as hell isn't funny! I wonder how common the "grasping for a word" is?
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Post by naughtybear on Jan 16, 2017 11:26:06 GMT -5
I think we are all about the same age and I have mentioned the word thing before, it is always that thingy, I couldn't remember fridge the other day.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 13:35:53 GMT -5
I knew my ex was diagnosed with thyroid issues (among other things) after we separated. I asked him today what his levels were when they first tested him and he said 80!! He took meds for 2 years, then stopped when he went on his "I'm not going to take any meds" kick a little over a year ago and the thyroid med was the only one he couldn't hack not taking. He got really sick.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 17, 2017 13:00:26 GMT -5
Do Thyroid problems make you stupid? That's the main thing I've been having issues with the past year or two. Ok...maybe stupid is not the correct term, how about...brain dead. Seriously, I have spent more time on boards the past year because I can't focus on anything else. I get distracted by everything and I want to kill all my cube mates. Ok, maybe not thyroid. Maybe I'm just getting to be an old crab ass. Yeah, you get kind of a brain fog going. I did anyway. It screws up everything.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 17, 2017 13:01:14 GMT -5
Ok, scratch that. My carpal tunnel has been really bad the past year. I got it with both pregnancies but it would go away, now it's back to the point that I even bought braces last year. I've only had pain once for a few days, normally it's just numb hands waking me up at night, but it's been much worse. I didn't think there could be any correlation, but I Googled carpal tunnel and thyroid and there are. Yeah, my carpal tunnel is worse when my numbers are off. (I swear, I'll finish the whole thread before I post again!)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 13:21:30 GMT -5
Ok, scratch that. My carpal tunnel has been really bad the past year. I got it with both pregnancies but it would go away, now it's back to the point that I even bought braces last year. I've only had pain once for a few days, normally it's just numb hands waking me up at night, but it's been much worse. I didn't think there could be any correlation, but I Googled carpal tunnel and thyroid and there are. Yeah, my carpal tunnel is worse when my numbers are off. (I swear, I'll finish the whole thread before I post again!) Nobody has contacted me from the clinic yet about the TSH test. I'm starting to wonder if they looked at it and decided to let it go? I might bring it up for the carpal tunnel reason alone. I've been reading more about it and it sure sounds like it might be contributing to my wrist issues which seems so odd...but hey, it is what it is.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jan 17, 2017 13:32:10 GMT -5
The problem with thyroid issues is that they tend to creep up on you so slowly, that you really don't notice. Symptoms that occur, you tend to attribute to other things (like your early Alzheimer's). When TD started on my illegal levothyroxine, he felt so much better. He didn't even see his symptoms, I was the one that noticed them first.
Honestly, I'd push the issue MPL.
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Post by chen35 on Jan 17, 2017 13:41:44 GMT -5
This is all so interesting. I have a lot of the symptoms posted here, but my levels have always been 'normal'. I had no idea that the range maybe wasn't the best indicator of normal? Now I'm wishing I could find my last test results. I don't even remember where I was at. I just remember thinking my issues weren't my thyroid because I was in that normal range.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 17, 2017 14:06:42 GMT -5
Yeah, my carpal tunnel is worse when my numbers are off. (I swear, I'll finish the whole thread before I post again!) Nobody has contacted me from the clinic yet about the TSH test. I'm starting to wonder if they looked at it and decided to let it go? I might bring it up for the carpal tunnel reason alone. I've been reading more about it and it sure sounds like it might be contributing to my wrist issues which seems so odd...but hey, it is what it is. I was so glad my doctor was one that is willing to listen to me. I just went into my library and searched for the thyroid books they had and then read the ones with the most recent publishing dates. They all said mostly the same stuff. Oh another fun one I have is my tongue is swollen and isn't going back down. I have scallops on the edges where it's always against my teeth. Makes the dentist really fun but at least that explained why it seemed I always had such a hard time getting the dang thing out of their way while they cleaned.
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Post by shanendoah on Jan 17, 2017 14:49:09 GMT -5
I think one of the main things to realize is that there are the "normal parameters" for thyroid function, and then there is YOUR normal. In a sense, I was lucky in that I had a strong baseline of past thyroid tests to go by before I started the meds. I had multiple symptoms from both the hypo and hyper thyroid lists, and taking the meds didn't change that. I had growths on my thyroid. They didn't seem to affect the functioning of my thyroid, but I got regular thyroid blood tests for a couple of years, and also got annual ultrasound assisted biopsies of the growths. The first endocrinologist I went to put me on the levothyroxin as an attempt to stop the growths from growing (which they were doing, quite nicely). But it was a very small dose, and honestly, it had no impact on my TSH levels. I later switched endocrinologists (for insurance reasons), and the new one said - well, those growths are still growing. They are getting to the point that they are too big (and numerous) for us to trust the efficacy of the biopsies. So while you could stay on the levothyroxin the rest of your life AND go in annually (or bi-annually) for the biopsies, we'd be paranoid that we were getting false negatives on the cancer test, which would make us start wanting to do them even more. Or you could get the thyroid removed. It's one procedure, and you're done.
For the record, all of my growths (5 or 6 of them) were benign. My final diagnosis was of lymphocytic thyroiditis (also called silent thyroiditis), in which your thyroid cycles between normal, hyper, and hypo. You generally don't notice it.
Anyway, because I'd been being treated for years, and we knew what my standard baseline was to TSH (on the very lowest end) when we were figuring out my post-surgery levothyroxin dose, we knew what we were aiming for. The first dose I was on put me right in the middle of normal range for TSH, but I felt terrible. We upped my dose to get my TSH levels back to the very low end, which was my normal, and I feel fine. However, if I miss a day of taking my levothyroxin, I emotionally fall apart in about 24 hours. It's a very quick reaction.
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