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I have been having drenching night sweats, hot flashes with cold hands/feet/nose, body odor now smells like an onion, and on the days I feel this way, my anxiety goes crazy, and I have insomnia. On the nights I sweat, I wakeup with pain in the jugular chain of lymph nodes in my neck/chin. My T4 dropped in the last year from 1.17 to 0.85. My Dr says it's "normal" but I just can't help but feel like it is thyroid related... here are my labs from a year ago and now

Lab: January 2015 / January 2016.

T4: 1.17 / 0.85

TSH: 0.595 /1.111

T3: 2.92 / not tested

Antibodies: 33.1/ not tested

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Also, I'm having a new set of all of these labs done this week...any I should add?

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Welcome to the forum, Ksgibson66.

Can you post the ranges (figures in brackets after results) for FT4 and FT3?

I would ask your GP to test for menopause, B12 and folate as menopause and B12 and folate deficiency can cause night sweats.

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ksgibson66 in reply toClutter

We checked for menopause. I'm 33 and that is all well within range. I'll get the t3 and t4 lab ranges.

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Barrister in reply toksgibson66

I saw my GP because I was having hot flushes and my periods were very light and only coming once every few months. She also said I wasn't menopausal yet a couple of months down the line periods stopped completely and I never had another one. Clemmie

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ksgibson66 in reply toBarrister

My periods were heavy and long, so I got on the depoprovera shot for now so I don't really have them now, just some light breakthrough bleeding on those weeks.

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MrsRaven in reply toClutter

So how long are you menopausal? I am 70 in a few months, havent had a period for 20 years, they just stopped, amd the endo said my bloods were consistent with menopause 😵

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ksgibson66 in reply toMrsRaven

I'm not

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Clutter in reply toMrsRaven

MrsRaven, Some women have menopausal symptoms for years before they stop menstruating. As you haven't menstruated in 20 years you are in menopause.

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MrsRaven in reply toClutter

Ok. I thought that menopause was something you "went through" then came out the other side of.

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Clutter in reply toMrsRaven

MrsRaven, The menopause is when a woman stops having periods and is no longer able to get pregnant naturally. ... In the UK, the average age for a woman to reach the menopause is 51. ...

nhs.uk/conditions/Menopause...

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MrsRaven in reply toClutter

I must have mistaken my old GP. He was tslking about me being menopausal when I was in my thirties. Maybe I got confused

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Clutter in reply toMrsRaven

MrsRaven, 'menopausal' usually means having erratic periods and hot flushes as menopause approaches. Some people have menopause in their 30s and early 40s.

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ksgibson66

T4 lab range: 0.89-1.76

T3 lab range: 2.30 - 4.20

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Clutter in reply toksgibson66

Ksgibson66, FT4 0.85 is below range which is not normal. You need a dose increase. Ideally FT4 will be towards/in the upper quadrant and FT3 in/towards the top third of range.

If antibodies 33.1 are over range it confirms autoimmune thyroid disease (Hashimoto's) which causes 90% of hypothyroidism. 100% gluten-free diet can help reduce Hashi symptoms and antibodies.

chriskresser.com/the-gluten...

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ksgibson66 in reply toClutter

New labs done today...

TSH: 0.733

FT3: 2.8

FT4: 1.02

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Clutter in reply toksgibson66

Ksgibson66, if ranges are the same as those you posted above levels have improved but although FT4 is now in range it is still low, and FT3 is also low. Ideally dose will be increased until FT4 is >1.5 and FT3 >3.5.

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Drenching night sweats can be a symptom of Babesia (a classic co-infection of Lyme Disease). Read this and see if you think it might apply suzycohen.com/articles/lyme... (It makes me realise that although I was only tested for Lyme, there is a high probability that I had Babesia as well)

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ksgibson66 in reply torosetrees

No. Especially no headaches at all

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