Useful email from lady who wrote an article I posted

[Guest guest]

hi there

I commented on an article which I posted here which was very

interesting and useful. Here is her reply, which I find very sensible.

Pity the doctor don't get to read her stuff.

lotsa luv

Dawn.....

Dear Dawn,

Thank you for your interest in ProQuest's Discovery Guides Series.

is currently a graduate student in Minnesota. She

sends this reply:

" Thank you Dawn for your comments. I wrote this to help patients, and

if doctors do read it, that's ideal as well.

I myself took some years to find the proper endocrinologist. This

illness can also destablize, largely because of the relationship

between thyroid hormone and adrenal hormones in working together, sort

of a see-saw to control heartbeat and blood pressure.

So, in hypothyroidism, you can wind up running on increased adrenalin

for a while, just sitting at rest, you could be experiencing more

adrenalin than somebody jogging-- just to keep your heart rate up.

This abnormal state of high adrenaline can cause anxiety and

restlessness, brief bouts of diarrhea, or other 'hyperthyroid'

symptoms along with frank hypothyroid symptoms, which can be confusing

for some patients.

This overload of the adrenal glands only lasts so long before they

fold out of fatigue. Then you can go very quickly to classical

hypothyroidism from a 'pseudo-normal' sick pattern.

So, what blood tests and how you feel can be two very different things

because how the body reacts to thyroid problems is not static.

Lifestyle management is so important to keeping a consistent level of

energy and function.

Stay well.

"

[Guest guest]

That's wonderful Dawn - we could do with her as a member here to help us

with some of our problems. Dare you ask???

Luv - Sheil

>

> hi there

>

> I commented on an article which I posted here which was very

> interesting and useful. Here is her reply, which I find very sensible.

> Pity the doctor don't get to read her stuff.

>

> lotsa luv

> Dawn.....

>

> Dear Dawn,

>

> Thank you for your interest in ProQuest's Discovery Guides Series.

> is currently a graduate student in Minnesota. She

> sends this reply:

>

> " Thank you Dawn for your comments. I wrote this to help patients, and

> if doctors do read it, that's ideal as well.

>

> I myself took some years to find the proper endocrinologist. This

> illness can also destablize, largely because of the relationship

> between thyroid hormone and adrenal hormones in working together, sort

> of a see-saw to control heartbeat and blood pressure.

>

> So, in hypothyroidism, you can wind up running on increased adrenalin

> for a while, just sitting at rest, you could be experiencing more

> adrenalin than somebody jogging-- just to keep your heart rate up.

> This abnormal state of high adrenaline can cause anxiety and

> restlessness, brief bouts of diarrhea, or other 'hyperthyroid'

> symptoms along with frank hypothyroid symptoms, which can be confusing

> for some patients.

>

> This overload of the adrenal glands only lasts so long before they

> fold out of fatigue. Then you can go very quickly to classical

> hypothyroidism from a 'pseudo-normal' sick pattern.

>

> So, what blood tests and how you feel can be two very different things

> because how the body reacts to thyroid problems is not static.

> Lifestyle management is so important to keeping a consistent level of

> energy and function.

>

> Stay well.

>

> "

>

[Guest guest]

Hiya Shiela

Me dare?

She who dares wins lol

I will email her, she can only say one of two things

lotsa luv

Dawnx