Can being hypo cause you to lose your voice for weeks?

[overunbykids]

Hi all, and thank you in advance for your input.

I know I am very hypo atm as I am extremely symptomatic, but my doctor is waiting for my current illness (I'll explain further down) to pass completely before doing bloods as she says my levels will be off due to being sick. I am on 3 grains of Thiroyd atm, but am really wondering if my batch just isn't working as well as they used to as the tablets have changed.

About 5-6 weeks ago i noticed the right side of my thyroid had swollen more than usual and my neck was quite sore. Not my throat inside, but my actual neck. Eating was ok, but to swallow liquid really hurt. That subsided after a week or so and I thought it was over. Nope.

3 and a half weeks ago I started to come down with what i thought was my usual allergic reaction to the smoke haze in our area from Bush fires this past month, or a simple cold as i have had this year's fluvax.

My nose ran and I sneezed a lot, i started to get a dry cough, fevers, headache, my throat got sore and my thyroid swelled on the right side again. I lost my voice within a few hours and coughed nearly non-stop day and night. My chest became infected and I was wheezing a lot on any exertion. I struggled to get into my doctor but it took 2 weeks to get an appointment.

My gp said I had what she thought to be tonsilitis, but also a bacterial sinus and chest infection, too. Antibiotics, Rhinocort , and paracetamol over a week cleared my head and chest. My throat isn't sore anymore, but the thyroid is still swollen and sore and STILL no voice. I occasionally get a little of it back, but it keeps going again. The smoke has been gone for a week now, so that isn't it.

I am utterly exhausted, and aching all over badly. My skin is dry, rashy and awful, and my hair ihas been falling out worse. I can feel my pulse pounding through me and racing (i always have a fast heartbeat, but i feel like this is the high blood pressure I get when hypo??) And simple things like going to the bathroom tire me out. I have always felt too hot since developing Hashi's, often waking overheated at night. I have to use a fan on to cool off as i live in Australia (and our spring/ summers get up to the 40+ degrees Celsius and I struggle with heatstroke and dehydration) it makes the aching almost intolerable. No matter how terribly tired i am during the day, come 9pm, insomnia kicks in and the tiredness goes away. I am getting between 2.5-4 hours at the most sleep a night.

What I want to know, after boring you good people with a long winded back story, is this... Could my thyroid being swollen make a hypo Hashi's sufferer lose their voice for this long (almost a month and counting)?

I was given a clear US and Catscan with contrastI in 2014, but my doctor wants to get another ultrasound done in the near future just to check.

Thanks if you made it all the way through this post. 😉

I'd love to hear about anyone else's experiences, or any input would be awesome.

Thank you.

[greygoose]

It sounds like what I've had for the past month! Cold - runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, etc. - terrible cough and breathing difficulties - and loss of voice. And there are no bush fires here in France.

It started on the 24th October. I remember distinctly because I had to take the dog to the vet and started feeling awful in the waiting room. And, it just got worse and worse over the next couple of weeks. Now, I'm slowly recovering, but it's very slow. So very tired all the time! And my voice is now a croak - nothing like its old self. I began to wonder if I'd permanently damaged my vocal cords with all the coughing! I wondered if I'd ever talk again. But, it's slowly coming back.

And, I don't have a thyroid anymore, killed off by Hashi's, so I don't think there's any connection. Just a good old-fashioned chesty cough and cold.

[overunbykids in reply to greygoose]

Firstly, ((hugs to you)). You have no idea how reassuring your reply is, Greygoose. No matter how many times I had given myself a stern talking to about how it is nothing to worry myself over, there was still that tiny voice in the back of my mind that liked to say at 4am in the morning "but what if it is something else..?

I am sure we all get that at times 🤪

I will just keep on trying to give myself a little extra TLC and rest and be patient as I ride it out.

[greygoose in reply to overunbykids]

That's about all we can do. It's perfectly 'normal' to be hit extra hard by these bugs when you're hypo, and to take longer to recover. I haven't had a cold for years, since I've been optimally treated. But this one really knocked me for six!