What Are Your Worst Thyroid Signs and Symptoms

The depression and hair loss are the worst symptoms for me. Actually, the hair loss is what’s causing the depression. It’s the worst because doctors do not take it seriously. They always try to blame the fact that all your hair is falling out on something else besides your Thyroid condition. That’s funny, i never had any hair loss before i got Thyroid disease. Being sick, and losing your hair, at the same time, is horrible.

Try finding a female endocrinologist – she will take you more seriously! Good luck to you…

The throat gurgles – loud and obnoxious, and always at the wrong time. Weight gain and hair loss brings on the depression.

Hair loss by far has been the worst. It’s unrelenting and always on my mind.

My downhill slide was so subtle and insidious that it took a couple years for me to even realize something was wrong.

I started noticing exercising was more difficult, I had to push myself through a workout. And then I was gaining weight despite the exercising and eating well.

Then on my days off work as a nurse in a busy hospital, I found I had no energy or motivation to do much except try to recover so I could go back to work again. I became sluggish, and was finding normal things I used to do, like shopping, overwhelming.

Eventually I became almost reclusive, not wanting to go out or be social. I started having heart palpitations that resulted in several ER visits and hospitalizations, to be told I was ‘fine’. I started having anxiety and even had to cancel a plane trip to visit family due to it.

I ended up quitting work to stay home with my son, and was relieved. Since I had no energy to do much else, I researched almost 24/7 and realized I was probably hypothyroid. Subsequent testing proved I had Hashimoto’s.

I was feeling so horrible prior to taking dessicated thyroid that I did not believe it was possible for me to ever get back to my old self, but all those symptoms have resolved, and I am now active and enjoying life again.

I need to add that during this time I was also dealing with declining estrogen levels due to my age, and that also played a part. It was difficult to tell whether a symptom was from low thyroid or low estrogen, but after reading a study that showed women with thyroid problems have a more difficult time with menopause, I believe my thyroid problems were the root cause.

Concentration is the worst for me and my short term memory has been effected in a very big way. The majority of people with hypothryoidrism gain weight, I gained 75 lbs in 8 mos. I need to find a Dr. that treats for not only T4 but T3 as well.

Was diagnosed with overactive thyroid and my symptoms were eleveted heartbeat, weightloss.. and hyper activity and happyness if you could call that a symptom.
Now after being off medication for a little over 2 months i’m noticing weight gain, alot of hairloss lately along with thin nails and tiredness even when not doing anything. Not as much happyness as well, and a little low bloodpressure. Have been wondering if my thyroid has gone a little inactive. Because it’s weird that i’m gaining weight and working out 5 times a week, also having trouble wanting to go or staying at the gym for the whole exersice.

Initially, I suspected something was wrong when I began gaining weight at age 35-36. My hair and skin became very dry. Working out 3-4 hours a day barely kept the weight off, but it was exhausting. My periods stopped then, and I could no longer work out, and I gained to almost twice my normal size, without eating much at all.

The worst symptoms were not being able to walk because my legs and feet hurt so badly, and having to crawl to the bathroom in the morning because my crippled feet wouldn’t allow me to stand on them. I couldn’t do grocery shopping, walk around the house, do laundry, or go downstairs without help. I was 38-40 years of age, and I felt like my life was over.

My hair was so dry, it broke off, and I didn’t have the strength to comb it out. It took all my energy to take a shower. My skin hurt due to the dryness and no moisturizer ever worked.

The next worst symptom was the foggy brain and lack of any memory which caused doctors to speak to me slowly and clearly, as if I had mental deficiencies. By that time, I’d been suffering for about 5 years. I’d finally been diagnosed a few months before, and I had less than 0.0 Free T4 at diagnosis. My thyroid simply didn’t work at all. I was on Synthroid by then, but it didn’t help at all.

I thought I’d never get better, but it’s been like waking up from a coma on desiccated thyroid. I don’t remember much of those years, and maybe that’s a good thing.

I started getting really depressed and feeling run down my junior year in high school. When I was a senior, things started getting dramatically worse. I cried every day for no reason, my hair was falling out like crazy, my nails kept breaking, and I gained weight for no reason. I tried every diet and working out was impossible because I was so exhausted all the time. Finally, a week before graduation, the doctor diagnosed me with hypothyroid (which is relatively rare in someone so young) and it didn’t take long for me to finally feel 18.

But THEN, my thyroid went overactive from the medication and I had high anxiety, heart palpitations, and it was almost more frightening than being hypothyroid. My level was so off that it took a little longer to correct. Then changing my meds caused it to go sooo hypo again that I had to drop out of college for a semester.

But there is hope. It’s been almost 4 years and I have never felt so good in my life. The worst part for me was trying to find a stable dose of synthroid. But now that that’s all taken care of (for now), things couldn’t be better.