Lower back pain and stomach pain

[Cassie101]

Can hasimotos cause lower back pain and stomach pain ????

[greygoose]

I don't know about Hashi's, but the resulting hypothyroidism can cause pain just about everywhere. Certainly lower back pain is a symptoms of low thyroid. What sort of stomach pain do you have? It could be low stomach acid - caused by low T3 - is making digestion difficult and causing pain. So, yes, that would be indirectly a result of having Hashi's.

[Cassie101 in reply to greygoose]

Thank you for your reply! I have pain everytime i eat so i can be because of having hashis..

[greygoose in reply to Cassie101]

Check out your stomach acid :

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[SlowDragon Administrator]

Gluten and or dairy intolerance are much more common with Hashimoto's

Bloating and stomach pain may be due to either gluten or dairy. Gluten is the more likely

Hashimoto's affects the gut and often leads to low stomach acid and then low vitamin levels

Low vitamin levels affect Thyroid hormone working

Poor gut function can lead leaky gut (literally holes in gut wall) this can cause food intolerances. Most common by far is gluten. Dairy is second most common.

According to Izabella Wentz the Thyroid Pharmacist approx 5% with Hashimoto's are coeliac, but over 80% find gluten free diet helps significantly. Either due to direct gluten intolerance (no test available) or due to leaky gut and gluten causing molecular mimicry (see Amy Myers link)

Changing to a strictly gluten free diet may help reduce symptoms, help gut heal and slowly lower TPO antibodies

Ideally ask GP for coeliac blood test first

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Are you still only on 25mcg Levothyroxine? Can you add your most recent blood test results for TSH, FT3, FT4 plus vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

Sharp needle like pain either side in lower back can be related to adrenals

[Cassie101 in reply to SlowDragon]

Thank you so much for your info... yeah im still on 25 every other nite because i have really bad side effects... im waiting for them to post my recent results i will put them up when i get them.... they sent me a letter saying they want to test cortisol agian coz it come back low and serum EDTA to check adrenal gland function and adrenal antibodies i dont no wht all this means bt still feeling ill x