Hello all. Here is my story.
When I was a young teen, I was thin and people often commented that ‘I must have hollow legs’ due to how I could eat and eat and it never seemed to affect me.
Puberty hit and my weight ballooned, almost overnight. Along with weight gain I started sweating profusely and could never control my temperature.
I have spent over 20 years continually visiting the GP complaining about my weight and sweating. I continually get told to ‘go on a diet’ but that is all I’ve done!
I feel like I’ve tried every diet, every variety of diet, every eating fad, and I’ve starved myself. I work out a lot and do a lot of walking. I am very physically active.
I work mostly abroad for a coach holiday company, taking passengers from the U.K. to locations across Europe, including Italy, Spain and France.
Once, my GP advised that I try the Mediterranean diet, even though I’d been consistently in that area with work! I felt so sad, like no one was listening or believing me.
I eventually approached a medical trial which I was accepted for with Novo Norsk. This is for one of the medical jabs that suppress appetite.
I took the trial because, even though there was a chance of being on a placebo, I wanted regular blood tests and exams from a part of the NHS that were being paid by the pharmaceutical company to monitor trial participants. I wasn’t interested in the jab, but felt that testing might help me.
A year and a half of testing has shown that my thyroid levels ‘sit at the bottom end of normal’ but occasionally dip below normal, meaning my thyroid is occasionally under active. However, they say this is not enough to consider it as having an under active thyroid as it returns to the bottom of the normal range.
During the trial, I was bed bound for a week with Covid. I didn’t do any real movement. During that time I gained nearly a stone! In a week! To me that is abnormal. But then it takes such a long time to fight back that weight gain.
During the medical trial, they have stated I have perfect heart rate, perfect blood pressure, am not diabetic nor am I pre diabetic and am not at any risk of being diabetic due to my fairly active and healthy life style. The one nurse described me as a thin man in a fat suit.
Nothing makes sense to me with my weight. The other problem is the sweating, which is constant and depressing.
I work out, and then obviously shower. I then sit and relax and will sweat continuously for an hour to the point where I feel I need to shower again.
I go for walks and sweat so much that my shirt soaks through, even in winter. I hate hot weather which is fun especially when I work abroad during the summer.
Even the minimum amount of physical activity, including doing my job makes me sweat.
The NHS told me that temp control symptom of thyroid issues, along with dry hair and dry skin.
I showed them my consistently dry and cracked hands and dry hair.
So, after reading a post in this group, and joining myself, I have followed some advice from another post and have made the decision to try medication for myself without a prescription. I submitted to a questionnaire on (name removed by admin) . It came back with suggesting Levothyroxine so I have ordered a supply.
I checked out e-surgery.com to check its legitimacy as I was nervous but it all seems above board with excellent reviews.
So that’s my story. 24 years struggling and depressed with a situation that I feel is very much outside my control!
I will try and keep a log of everything and see how i get on.
Any advice would be completely welcomed! Surely there must be others out there the same as me! Has anyone been through the same and taken the decision to deal with this themselves? Has it worked? What should I do to ensure I do this properly?
Thank you for your time reading my post.
Matty
39 Male
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Persistent cough with under active thyroid
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