Re: [thyroidpatientadvocagecy] Re: HEAVY, FREQUENT PERIODS AND TOO MUCH THYROXINE

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Hi Kathleen

Thank you so much for replying. I so appreciate it. Mr Daughter has been son unwell for so many years. She also started her periods at a very young age,she was just 10 years of age. But she had put on so much weight in the year prior to starting her periods. even her teacher at school asked me about the weight gain to get it investigated.

Anyway,back to the point in hand, yes I agree that progesterone and oestrogen definately play a big part in heavy,frequent painful periods. Whe my daughter was just 12years old she was given noresitherone to stop her periods for 3 weeks, but it has been since then that her problems started. Painful periods, heavy with clotting. Eventually at age 17 she was diagnosed with Edometrosis. Given zoladex to stop the periods for 6 months to give the endomestrosis time to settle down. However because it contained oestrogen it just made her sypmptms much worse. We have just found out that she is oestrogen dominant. That explains why the zoladex did not work. And neither did the mirena coil. It gave her so much grief she ended up down our surgery begging our gp to take the coil out. It really caused a lot of pain and upset with the periods. I would not recommend it unless you rule out any

hormone dominance or deficiency. It crippled her for months after. she had only had it in for almost 2 months.

I must say that all through this we have been asking for testing of hormones and were told there is no test for this as women's hormones are all over the place..We have since found someone who can test for this.

Thank you for you reply to me and I hope the above helps you too.

Kind regards

Vickyanne

Since found out you can have the hormones tested if you are prepared to pay for it.which not everybody can do.

Hmmm!!

From: bty94627179 <kranger1@...>Subject: Re: HEAVY, FREQUENT PERIODS AND TOO MUCH THYROXINEthyroid treatment Date: Thursday, 3 February, 2011, 20:49

HIMy Daughter had heavy periods and started early aged 11, plus being a problem with constipation. She lost her first child while still on the pill which they would not take away although the baby had died, as she must have had an infection which they were treating first.She had a son, but had more miscarriages until diagnosed with Hypothyroidism, but sadly the third child suffered from brain damage due to a problem with the placenta.I think your GP is wrong, but Ostrogen and progresterone appear to be involved in thyroid problems.Kathleen>> Hi all> > I wonder if anyone can help with this question.> > Kind regards to

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