Hi everyone
Been suffering for months now with mainly serious tiredness and fatigue and constant over heating and sweating, I have been taking my oral temp for 2 months and haven't once had a normal reading ranging from 95.1 to 96.0 which is classed as low but I'm always so hot and sweaty
Could anyone shed any light on what to do about this ?
Hi - along with your adrenal panel from your last test, it certainly looks like you are hypothyroid, those are certainly all hypothyroid symptoms. But without blood results no-one will be able to say nor doctor be able to treat you. And by the look of your adrenal results it certainly appears that you need treatment. Have you managed to find any way to overcome your needle phobia? Someone suggested you try hypnosis - did you consider that?
Good luck
Gillian
PS - don't mean to sound gloomy, but if you are hypothyroid, unless you get some form of treatment, you will become more and more ill and the eventual outcome would be a slow, miserable death - is that thought worth seeking out some form of help with needles or fingerprick test?
Thank you Gillian, that is the best info I've had yet, I have a decent home test kit here from thriva, if I could manage to do that would it give me the info I need ? I feel so ill now I can't even get out of bed for more than a few hours a day, I have an appointment booked with dr Barry peatfield, but there is a wait of four weeks and I feel like I would be in hospital before then 😢
First you have to get a blood test which will confirm or not whether you are hypo or hyper thyroid.
Ask GP for a test and it should be the very earliest, fasting (you can drink water) and if you were taking thyroid hormones you'd allow a gap of 24 hours between last dose and test and take afterwards.
Ask GP to test TSH, T4, T3, Free T4, Free T3 and thyroid antibodies. He may not do all of these. Also B12, Vit D, iron, ferritin and folate. Always get a print-out of your results with the ranges for your own records and post if you have a query.
I have the same problems with temperature. The information found by Googling Wilson's Syndrome is helpful. This seems unusual, but taking a really hot 30 minute Epsom salt soak before bed seems to decrease my night sweats. In the morning I take a tepid to cool 3 to 5 minute dip to shock my body into bringing my temperature up. My acupuncturist treats the cold spot just above my navel.
I hope this helps you get enough energy to get out of bed!
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