can a under active thyroid affect our moods - Thyroid UK
can a under active thyroid affect our moods
Short answer yes and quite dramatically too.
"Dr. Barry Durant-Peatfield, in his book Your Thyroid and How to Keep It Healthy, states
“Brain cells have more T3 receptors than any other tissues, which means that a proper uptake of thyroid hormone is essential for the brain cells to work properly.”
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Yes and not only on biological level. For most people chronic illness means life long changes, resigning from dreams, not having a 'normal life'. This is depressing in itself. That how it is for me. I am hoping that others find their way and they are living very happy life.
Best wishes to you cupcakes 1971
Exx
But do not get too low about it, bad mood can improve, especially if you find right medication at the right dose.
Hugs
E xx
Yes definitely! So can hyper too. I'm living proof of both.
Yes this can be one of the symptoms, and it affects many people with thyroid problems. Sadly many doctors will prescribe drugs for the problem and these can make it worse.
See thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/treatm...
Edysia is right that loss of your lifestyle is a large contributing factor as well as the actual thyroid condition, but hopefully optimising your medication is the key to eliminating low mood.
Jane x
I've been very moody and low of late! Got worse when I stopped my thyroid meds for a week too so .....! I was never as low as I have been these last couple of months. Low low wasn't an issue for me initially but has been of late. "Funny" how symptoms come and go.....
Simon
Perhaps the most characteristic 'brain' symptom i found was cognitive difficulty CC. That's where e.g. when we read we have trouble taking in or retaining enough of what we have just read to make sense of it. Or we can't do mental arithmetic, or remember stuff.
It drops the mood too, but the effect can be a bit more subtle and harder to distinguish from situational stuff. In my experience it did happen, but showed more as a blanket feeling of gloom/low energy/loss of ability to rise my mood. Depression often has a cyclical aspect to it, but not in my case.
No doubt related, but visual disturbances can be another sign when we're pretty hypo. I found for example that at times I couldn't focus at a distance, and that my eyes kept on drifting out of focus. So for example that reading a whiteboard from what would normally have been a reasonable distance would become impossible...
It could be that when tied in with female monthly hormonal cycles that the experience is somewhat different...
ian
I can say personally my mood swings as in female monthly time are different from the thyroid mood changes. The thyroid one for me are the most scary and worse. Give me PMT with a bit of GRR and Chocolate anyday.At least I would know why I'm grr not wondering who was GRR and what is that thing I want to eat that is ...................
Has anyone had experience of the addition of T3 to their T4 helping with their moods/depression please?
Best wishes
Kathy
Yup. I can get moody at the drop of a hat. Don't lije it either
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