Dear all, I have underactive thyroid and take porcine thyroxin and am checked every year for my levels. I don't eat bread or dairy now, not for 4 years.
My neck seems to have a lot of damage to it. I have had an x-ray, many moons ago and no one batted an eyelid though they said it had damage. It concerns me. Does anyone have any experience on this.
Are you saying that you have Hashi's and take NDT? And that you had an ultrasound and your thyroid was badly damaged by the Hashi's?
If that's the case, no, no-one would bat an eyelid because they see it all the time. That's what the disease does. Mine is completely dead, now, but there's nothing anyone can do about it. You can't treat the Hashi's, and you can't stop the attacks. The disease just has to take its course until you are completely hypo and reliant on thyroid hormone replacement.
What is it exactly that concerns you?
Dear Greygoose. I have Osteoporosis in the neck. I also have bone growth of some sort. I have booked an appointment with the doctor to take this further and will wright down the name. I was wondering as ever do other people get this with Hashimoto's.
Hi Atala. I don't completely understand your question - but. On higher doses of NDT I tear muscles or really the ligament from the muscle to the bone. I'm ok at the moment but when it happens its a nagging pain right at the top of my neck on my scalp at the back - can be either side where the muscle attaches to my skull and extend down 3cm. I will wake up with it - like a stiff neck and it gets worse and worse for several days and then juts becomes a nagging for about 3 months . Then goes away . I'm caring 7-8kg extra weight at the moment and I seem to get it less than when I'm more scrawny . It's like a tennis elbow but in the neck, I get that (tennis elbow)too.
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Painful neck
Ultra sound & Neck Exam
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