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40 year old female with depression and hypothermia screams Hashimoto's disease to me. Have you had your TSH checked?
by cperciva 3y ago
40 year old female with depression and hypothermia screams Hashimoto's disease to me. Have you had your TSH checked?
- aszantu 3y agoit's within the ranges, nothing wrong with tyroid - even took a little iodine on the side to test if it does something - there is this test where you put iodine on your skin, and if it gets absorbed within 10 minutes, you're low on iodine - I'm not, all the bloodwork looks normal except for cholesterol (cuz high fat low carb) - see cholesterol code for that
- msandford 3y agoDon't get just TSH checked, get a full thyroid panel. You can have normal TSH but still be low on free T3 and feel bad as a result.
- monknomo 3y agoThyroids can intermittently fail, or have one of the glands fail and the other make up for it (for a while). TSH isn't quite sufficient to catch everything, and one test alone won't necessarily catch everything.