Hi, I'll try and be brief.
It's been over 3yrs since I thought I had a thyroid problem. I was fobbed off with antidepressants and it took me years to get off them. I am still having problems and I know it is not just anxiety!
I suffer with DPDR - dissociation. I feel spaced out often and disconnected. I have no idea if it is just anxiety or has physical causes. Anyway, in the last few years I have been testing my Thyroid with medichecks and it wavers between about 5 and 2. I haven't felt physically well for a while. I've lost my eyebrows, most of my bodily hair and big chunks from my head. I'm 66 so have no idea if this is just 'ageing'???
So, a month ago I think I got Covid. We have no tests now so hard to know but had it before and it was similar. Couldn't get out of bed for virtually a week. Midway through this I developed horrific pain in the front of my neck radiating up to my ears. One night it was so excrutiatingly painful I was walking around our housing estate at 2.30am crying in pain. I just had to get out. Anyway, got through that and then a few days ago I started to get the same pain again - always around the lymph glands but lower too and this time low grade aching in shoulders and chest.
I have decided to ring and try and get a GP appointment on Tuesday. I just don't know what this is. I have ongoing anxiety - hence the DPDR but things seem to be becoming physical now. My last thyroid blood test was with medichecks (it's like getting blood out of a stone through NHS). in December last year and were:
TSH = 2.57 range 0.27-4.2
Free T3 = 5 range 3.1-6.8
Free Thyroxine =18.4 range 12-22
This was part of a well woman test rather than their thyroid test as I am desperately seeking answers.
I just wondered if your thyroid problems have ever caused pain? Is this a thing? I'm trying to stock up on info before I see GP.