Lymphedema and Thyroid Problems

[Romaine1]

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8...

Please read this! Check your thyroid. 80 percent chance it is connected to primary lymphedema. I am just discovering this and I was born with lymphedema.

[AnneBury]

Looking at the article says it was from 1994 and Russian. I think if there was any validity to it it would have been published in English, in the UK and more recently than 25 years ago.

[freimaurer]

Still, it is interesting that 80% of lymphedema patients in the Russian study were hypothyroid. I wonder why nobody has tried to duplicate this study. Being 25 years old simply means there has been no interest in pursuing the subject, not that it is worthless. It seems wise, in sight of this study, to have one's thyroid level checked.

[hshank]

Interesting article (too bad that there are no follow up studies). My son, who has primary lymphedema in his right leg as of 3 years ago, had thyroid cancer 12 years ago and a complete thyroidectomy followed by radiation. The doctors say that there is no connection between the two.