Hi đź‘‹ I developed a goitre about 10 years ago (in my 30's) scanned fairly regularly and reported as multi nodular and GP monitoring/ignoring
Recently feeling really tired, sluggish bowels, nails are all ridged and generally feel lousy.
Bloods at GP attached, advised to just monitor but really don't feel right and weight gain is really depressing me, I exercise 5 x 30mins per week and regular long hikes and just seems to be getting bigger.
Any advice welcome.
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Not surprised you don't feel well, your FT4 is very low - should be at least 50% through the range.
What time of day was the blood draw for this test? Because your TSH is low compared to your FT4, which makes me think it was probably done early afternoon? TSH is highest early morning - before 9 am - and as the TSH is all doctors tend to look at, we need it as high as possible.
A multi-nodular goitre sounds like Autoimmune Thyroiditis. Have you had TPO and Tg antibodies tested? If not, that's the next thing that needs doing.
And also stop all that exercise! It is not going to make you lose the weight and will probably make you put more on by making you more hypo. Just gentle walking until you get all this sorted.
hi, so sorry to hear that. I don’t know about your dosage and blood tests, but concerning your goitre and nodules, did you have an operation to remove them? I hope yes. My daughter, when she was 15 had a goitre and one big nodule. Operation, one love removal. Usually operation is the first immediate step. And to find the right dosage of Levothyroxine is the seccond step.
For your weight, I’m sorry about that as this is hard psychologically, you exercise, this is good, but not enough, diet is way more important. Diet is the most important. Exercise will just tone your body and maintain you in good health. But to loose weight, you have to eat healthy, and in reasonable proportions. Forget sauces, sugar of every kind, snacking. Try intermittent fasting, it works great, accelerate your metabolism, and keep you in good health on the long term. I do it since years, and I will do it for life, so good it is.
Weight gain is not always related to thyroid. It can be related to many other conditions, or no conditions at all, you can simply be insulin resistant, and this will not make you burn the calories. And if it is the case, intermittent fasting will solve your problem, believe me, I did it and will do it for the rest of my life. I love it, and I eat good, I am never hungry, I just eat in specific hours, from 11:00 to 18:00, that’s all. Now that I’m stable, sometimes on the WE, I eat more, or I eat later if I go to the restaurant. But I keep eating healthy at the restaurant. But this is only when you feel really stable with ideal weight. In the beginning you have to try to be strict. You body will thank you
Try this. You have on one side your thyroid problems, but if on the other side you can reduce the weight, it will make you feel so much better. Because it might be not related at all. You know there is no medecine for that, only diet, new habits, but believe me it’s great to do it, it is like a little gift you do to yourself.
I started in the beginning of perimenopause dieting, which means for me eating healthy, not counting calories, I hate that stress. My body was changing and I noticed I was gaining weight. I started intermittent fasting, I was always putting the food I had to eat in one single plate. (I still do) Not more. Nice good stuff. Paleo style. Grilled meat/fish and vegetables. But you can be vegetarian if you prefer, no matter. No sugar, no crab, no processed food. No sodas, only water and tea. I was eating Mediterranean, with olive oil, squeezing lemon everywhere (lemon is effective!). Well, I became another woman. I am 59, skinny, feeling good. I do a little exercise (not hard) at home, I do yoga, I dance, I cycle (I use my bike as transport as much as I can). I don’t do hard sport,
If you don’t have much time to cook, do like me: I take one day per week, or one evening per week, to cook many meals, I froze them or just put them in the refrigerator. I just have to reheat them gently at the oven to eat quickly after work. I bring one of my meal for lunch. no more sandwich, mayonnaise and all the crab. only good and healthy stuff.
Why don’t you try this too?
I wish you the best. Hope you will feel better. The endocrinologist will help you for your thyroid. But for the weight, it is a real change that you have to operate and it is so worth it, I know you can do it too after one week you feel already so relieved, feeling better, and when you will weight yourself, you will have motivation!!!! Because this works for real.
Appreciate the message. Not had any surgery, just monitoring and felt well so didn't question it. I eat a really healthy diet, don't fast but stear clear of processed foods, eat fish and small amounts of white meat, no red meat, eat loads of veg and fruit, but try to limit sugary fruits.
I will see GP again and if no joy will look for a private endo.
I do exercise, but as a family we are planning the 3 peaks challenge so need to keep fitness up for now and then will review this after.
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