Eye / face skin issues

[Mands74]

Has anyone ever had the upper eye lids swell and skin under the eye swell . Also red and dry and sore . Had Levothyroxine increases form 75 to 100mg afew weeks ago . Not sure if it’s that or something else .

[Tiredmum75]

I had same problem found out it was a allergy reaction to the allergy medication I was taking

[Boohbette17]

Hi Mands74 - very sorry you are experiencing this. I had very similar a few years ago until I discovered all about hormones & food. It took me a few years to finally get IGg testing & what I learned doing Dr.Sara Gottfrieds' Hormone reset got confirmed on paper!! I had my TPO reduced by half following this

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Hugs🌸

[Magsyb]

I have this, had it before diagnosis so I know it's not the levo. Can't get rid of it at the moment. It's very distressing and can't wear makeup because of it.

[Hillwoman]

Another possible cause might be myxoedema swelling, common in hypo. I had it for years, and it was so bad I struggled to keep my eyes open.

The redness makes me suspicious of Sjogren's Syndrome, another autoimmune disorder. If your eyes feel dry, gritty and sore and you have a tendency to dry mouth too, it might be worth asking for a referral to a rheumatologist, because diagnosis isn't a matter of a simple blood test.

[HLAB35 in reply to Hillwoman]

Not sure if this'll be helpful to the OP, but my daughter recommends Sea Buckthorn Berry Oil for those symptoms.

seabuckthorninsider.com/hea...

[Hillwoman in reply to HLAB35]

Interesting! I haven't tried that.

[gabkad in reply to Hillwoman]

Also worth a try would be a hypoallergenic cream containing hyaluronic acid.

In Canada we have Dormer 211 made in Quebec. Don't know if it's available in the UK but it has worked great for me.

dormer.ca/DormerCos/Product...

[Dogknox]

I’ve just developed the same thing. Dry eyes also an autoimmune problem. Artificial tears help a bit but it’s a real worry. Hopefully your increased dose will help.

[Trudes]

Looks similar to when my srojrens flares. Suggest you ask for the test but try eye drops and sliced cold cucumber to reduce inflammation and swelling.

[JaniceJ7]

Sounds like it could be blepharitis. Check with your local optician, they can give good advice for any eye problems. This site tells you all about it nhs.uk/conditions/blepharitis/

[guysgrams]

I did and at first had no idea what it was. I felt like I looked like a raccoon with red circles around my eyes! Very distressing for me. I figured it was a combination of things but am relatively sure it is allergies for me. I can no longer wear any kind of make up because every time I try especially any eye make up my eyes get like that all over again. I was never tested but since stopping the make up and taking supplements to get my vitamins and minerals back in some sort of balance I've been pretty good. It's been a year since I had an episode.

[CSmithLadd]

By any other name, hypothyroidism is caused by the lack of sufficient T3 in the cells to keep all autoimmune issues from occurring. This is probably the source of all autoimmune conditions.

Why is hypothyroidism so difficult to control? Conventional doctors are taught to treat symptoms as they arise and are taught they are not related, even if all symptoms are of autoimmune disease as is thyroid dysfunction.

It has proven to be ludicrously profitable for them to do so. I'm not saying they do it on purpose, I'm saying they have been trained to think what they do is the right thing to do even though their sick patients should tell them otherwise.

"Autoimmune" is not so much the body attacking itself as it is the body not having enough T3 to keep its systems from deteriorating and causing symptoms.

I have experienced nearly every autoimmune condition there is and have finally quelled them all after more than forty years of fighting to find something that would work for me. No one seemed to properly check the thyroid or to understand that blood tests merely measure the amount of thyroid hormone in the blood, not in the cells. When there are symptoms, it's not another XYZ dysfunction of unknown origin (or the autoimmune system on attack, also of unknown origin). Instead, what is happening is your body is signaling for more T3 in its cells. When T3 is sufficient, and better yet optimal, the body has the strength to keep dysfunction from occurring.

Through all my years of not getting the proper treatment for my plethora of dysfunctions/diseases, all the while T3 was waning.

Doctors never think to replenish the T3 that was lost. That can only be measured by a complete reversal of the patient's symptoms. But if a doctor doesn't recognize hypothyroid symptoms for what they are, instead of treating each symptoms with yet another medication that has nothing to do with the root of the problem, the patient continues to suffer due to the ignorance of the physician.

Doctors who treat by numbers from blood tests are the bane of health to all who are hypothyroid. That type of testing simply doesn't work because it lumps everyone in one basket. We are all different. What are good numbers for you may not be for someone else, and so on.

When the T3 was brought back up in my cells, all my symptoms of illness with labels such as Insomnia, Fibromyalgia, Crohn's Disease, IBS, Sjogren's Syndrome (dry mouth, eyes that are constantly gritty... dry dry dry), Xerodermia (Dry Skin), Eczema, Tinnitus, Pruritus (overall skin itching), Nocturia (excessive urination at night), Edema in legs and belly, Fungal infections of feet and thickening of the skin, etc. etc. etc. I could go on, but you get the idea. All those issues are gone. Gone! I've had them all my life, for the most part. However, I'll never get my gallbladder and other body parts that were removed due to "disease" which was really only dysfunction caused by a thyroid that wasn't getting what it needed in order to function properly and provide my body with ample T3. Be wary of those who want to remove parts when they have no idea why the part has become dysfunctional. Dysfunction is most often temporary!

There are other issues that must be addressed, as the reason why hypothyroidism surfaced in the first place is usually no fault of the thyroid itself. "Disease" means dysfunction. That's all disease is. This means if you have inadequate stomach acid you won't absorb all the nutrients from foods or supplements. That, in turn, creates an adverse environment in the gut. It causes all kinds of problems. Food allergies become rampant and those "allergies" also commonly affect the skin.

The skin is the largest organ of the body. When there is inadequate T3 in the cells, the skin is usually the first to do without optimal amounts of T3. Therefore, the skin erupts. With edema, the swelling around your eyes exacerbates the skin issues. Darkening around the eyes is often a sign of low iron or ferritin. The "within reference range" idiocy of conventional medicine keeps us sick as our nutrient levels are sub-par for optimal health. Compare your nutrient levels with those as set out by the practices of functional medicine instead.

Darkening of the skin, in general, can be caused by hypothyroidism. My neck had a blackness around it that I'd had since I was a child. It looked like I never washed! This is more evident in people of color, but the darkness is nevertheless relative to the rest of the skin of any color.

Conventional medicine's testings say "doing okay." Yet our body is screaming with symptoms that yell from the mountaintop "we're slowly dying." That is the problem with their medical practices.

Most doctors look only at numbers. When the patient is being properly treated with the right kind of thyroid medication for the individual -- and enough of it to replenish the cells with T3 in a timely and healthy manner -- then the patient heals and becomes whole again. Following that, determining the proper maintenance dose of the same proven combination of thyroid hormones, albeit in a lesser dosage, will ensure optimal health will continue.

And they never think to test hormones. Even when they do, they don't know what to do about imbalance. But functional medicine does know these things.

Please find a doctor of functional medicine, as they understand how the body works instead of merely quelling symptoms as they arise. Conventional medicine never even attempts to connect the dots. It makes no sense to put your trust in them for that reason alone. Ask the right questions of a conventional doctor and you'll hear, "We don't know why it happens."

Then how do he/she know what to do about it?

They don't.

Sure, there may be a few who buck convention and find out what works for their patients after they delve into what functional medicine does. But they are few and far between as they are beholden to a system that doesn't work.

Educate yourself. Remember, this is not a disease as you might think. It's merely dysfunction in your body that keeps the thyroid from doing its job in keeping you healthy.

I sincerely hope this helps you.

Healing Hugs!

[williamsad19]

I had this when I took brands with acacia in. I ended up in hospital with breathing difficulties, rash, but the first sign was swollen itchy eyes for around 2-3 days. I now have to have actavis xx