Medical question

[LillBeanSprout]

First of all, I hope this is the right thread.

I'm curious if anyone has done bloodwork regarding his/her thyroid.
My Doc found out mine is lazy, which can cause symptoms like cold, tiredness, lack of memory, etc. It's like everyone has two engines and I'm only using one, which makes my little engine huff & puff (I do things others do with twice the effort).
They say it can be fixed (can wait!).
I was wondering though... This is how the human body regulates its metabolism and increases it during growth. Is it possible a lazy thyroid can affect the brain structure somehow, enhancing or promoting issues like AS? I mean, if it's organic, the collateral will take its toll.

Share your thoughts? ...

 

[Judge]

There does seem to be plenty of data out there reflecting an alleged connection between autism and low functioning thyroid glands. Google it. Though whether it's truly acknowledged is for the medical and scientific community to determine.

"We are experiencing a wide range of environmentally induced diseases. Autism and hypothyroidism are two such diseases becoming epidemic in scope. A growing body of research indicates that autism and hypothyroidism are indeed connected. Yet routine blood tests frequently miss this connection."

http://www.nancymullanmd.com/pdf/TheThyroidAutismConnection.pdf

 

[Katleya]

I can address the bloodwork part, but that's about it.
I've had bloodwork done 3 years ago that showed a sudden drop in thyroid activity. I was so tired I could barely get out of bed.
For some reason my doctor decided to monitor the various levels before doing anything else, it stayed pretty much like that for 2 months and went back to normal.
Turns out, intense stress can affect your thyroid to some extent (I'll leave it to Bolletje to further explain, there's no way I can do better than someone who actually knows about medicine).

As for your hypothesis on lazy thyroid and brain structure, any guesses I would make would be uneducated.

 

[Streetwise]

First of all, I hope this is the right thread.

I'm curious if anyone has done bloodwork regarding his/her thyroid.
My Doc found out mine is lazy, which can cause symptoms like cold, tiredness, lack of memory, etc. It's like everyone has two engines and I'm only using one, which makes my little engine huff & puff (I do things others do with twice the effort).
They say it can be fixed (can wait!).
I was wondering though... This is how the human body regulates its metabolism and increases it during growth. Is it possible a lazy thyroid can affect the brain structure somehow, enhancing or promoting issues like AS? I mean, if it's organic, the collateral will take its toll.

Share your thoughts? ...

take seaweed tablets you need iodine

 

[Suzanne]

I was diagnosed with an overactive thyroid. All I had was severe weakness ( well, hardly all, since I was in a wheelchair).

What is shocking, is that blood work is not a fundemental part because the thyroid is just as important as our immune system; controls many elements in our body.

I am soon going to see a homopathic dr, because unlike the usual dr, they look to what causes the issue and not just gives medicine to mask the problem.

Since I started on the course of meds, I went from high to under and took the risk, as it were and stopped altgether and so far, not suffering.

As Streetwise, so rightly says: iodine is very important.

 

[Aspie_rin]

I am soon going to see a homopathic dr, because unlike the usual dr, they look to what causes the issue and not just gives medicine to mask the problem.

Homeopathy is basically just water and is a pseudoscience, so the only benefit of using homeopathy is the placebo effect. Please don't waste your money on this...

 

[Suzanne]

Homeopathy is basically just water and is a pseudoscience, so the only benefit of using homeopathy is the placebo effect. Please don't waste your money on this...

Well, I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

But just for the record: I was on chemical medicine from a scientific dr and suffered horrendeous side effects and did not need to go on them and then, my husband introduced me to natural medicine and they work so well, with anxiety.

If I had listened to a dr, I would be dead now; but because I did not listen to a dr and did things naturally, I am alive today. I nearly had a heart attack, but with doing things naturally, I saved myself a lot of heartache, for chemical medicines.

Oh and chemo for cancer patients, just causes cancer to rare up again and also kills off good cells as well; natural does it far better and patients are living to tell the tale.

Plus water is good for the body and so, I rather "waste" my money on a homopathy, than waste it on a dr who does not know the first thing about the human body; just dispensing medicine.

But, of course, that is my opinion, but backed up with evidence!

 

[Aspie_rin]

You're right that some medication have dangerous side effects and doctors can make mistakes too, I'll give you that. However, what I said about homeopathy is not an opinion, it's a fact. Also, natural doesn't necessarily equals good and artificial doesn't necessarilly equal bad: many artificial medication are less dangerous and more effective than natural ones, and going down the path of alternative medicine can lead you to charlatans that will sometimes give you dangerous products or tell you to give up on other treatments, wich is highly dangerous. But of course, homeopathy is just water (wich is good but doesn't cure anything) so you're not in danger, but it's costly so I highly recommend you avoid it. But do as you wish.

Also a lot of people don't understand what science really is. Science is anything that follows the scientific method: Scientific method - Wikipedia TL;DR: The scientific method is a way to be as sure as possible that something is true.

 

[Aspie_rin]

https://nccih.nih.gov/health/homeopathy

 

[Katleya]

But science can be biased, too.
Most of the research that is published is, to begin with, based on a given hypothesis. While a scientist with proper ethics would not discard evidence that is going against the point they were trying to prove, many don't have such qualms. So much funding and lobbying goes into what gets published or not that we can't guarantee that it is unbiased.

For example, until recently according to science, there were no female Aspies, and yet here we are.
I remember reading a study on the benefits of homeopathy on horses. I'm pretty sure horses don't deal with the placebo effect so much.
Medicine is not just the Western way; there are olenty of other methods that we discard here because they don't look like cold hard facts, yet they can be efficient. Of course, different ailments call for different methods, so there's no way homeopathy can cure everything, just like allopathy can't.
Besides, there is still much research to be done in determining the actual effect of the mind on illness. Treating the symptoms is one thing, but if it was everything, I guess there would be no more illnesses, no?

 

[Karen S.]

I was born with hypothyroidism, it wasn't diagnosed until I was three months old. The US wasn't testing for it at birth when I was born (1971). I was getting some thyroid hormone from being breastfed, but having hypothyroidism at birth causes problems with development! This was the reason given for why I was "different" growing up!

The really tough part about having and being treated for Thyroid issues is that your numbers can be in a normal range, but you still feel like you were run over by a steamroller! This especially true for those who developed thyroid issues later in life! This is because you remember what "feeling good" was like, and sadly, that feeling is never coming back!

The vast majority of Doctors only want to treat hypothyroidism with synthetic drugs, but there is a natural remedy that makes many people, like my cousin, feel better (and this was standard treatment before synthetic was made available) but the Doctors are scared of it because it's hard to regulate! There's a face book page called Hypothyroidism Mom that you can check for further details, She has Hashimoto's thyroiditis (another form of hell) but she covers regular hypo issues as well.

 

[LillBeanSprout]

take seaweed tablets you need iodine

I have been on iodine + folate for about two weeks now. I actually feel less tired and my head is not as fuzzy as usual. I still get blurred and cold when I get stressed though.