Re: thyroid issues worse after hormone implant

[Guest guest]

Hi , please would you clarify a few points.

What did the hormone implant contain exactly? If you don't know the contents,

if you know the name of the implant we could look it up and find out. Given

that it caused so much trouble, have you had the implant removed again?

Were you given Premarin because tests showed that your oestrogen was still too

low? Or did the doctors just assume that your symptoms were caused by oestrogen

deficiency?

Sorry if this seems picky, but too much oestrogen can block the action of

thyroid hormone even if there isn't a thyroid hormone deficiency.

Miriam

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> I was given a hormone implant in 2010 which gave me a severe reaction.

[ED]

[Guest guest]

Thanks for sending further information. I don't mind you replying to me

personally, but if you share this with the whole group you will get a lot more

feedback. I am not any kind of expert, though I read a lot. You can just copy

and paste your email to the group.

It could well be that the implant made you ill. If you look it up on the

internet it has a long list of possible undesirable side effects. Often people

who are hypothyroid react badly to medicines that other people can tolerate.

Incidentally, did they check your progesterone levels as well as oestrogen? The

progesterone/oestrogen balance is important.

Are you still on only 25 mcg thyroxine? That is next to nothing. If you have

thyroid antibodies, it doesn't matter how 'normal' your TSH, Free T4 and Free T3

are. Your thyroid is being destroyed and you need adequate treatment to relieve

your symptoms.

Miriam

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> > I was given a hormone implant in 2010 which gave me a severe reaction.

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> [ED]

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[Guest guest]

Thank you for your reply.The implant I was given was called Zoladex 10.8mg

which, from what the leaflet says, should not be given to Women; its for men for

prostrate cancer. This has also been confirmed by the drug company I was able to

email to confirm this but the hospital say they give it to women all the time.

(There is a dose for women called Zoladex 3.6mg implant which is meant to last

28 days).

I tried to get the implant removed about a month after having the implant

injection into my tummy but was told it would have dissolved by then into my

system. An ultrasound also couldn't pick it up (I would have done anything to

have had it cut out).

The implant put my body into an artificial menopause so to speak and I then made

no oestrogen, FSH or LH hormones. One consultant prescribed Premarin to try stop

this massive reaction I was having as no oestrogen was being made. I short time

later I went for a 2nd opinion at a different hospital and he was told to come

off Premarin! It was there I was advised it may be a pituitary tumour I was

suffering from so had scans for this too which drew a blank. No further hormones

were prescribed apart from an increase to my Levothyroxine as that had been

affected. My dose is now 100mcg a day.I also take Furusemide water tablets for

the oedema (20mg), Betahistine Dihydrochloride(up to 16mg 3 times a day),

Amitryptiline(10mg) for my neck pain, Carmellose eye drops, and Adcal D3 twice a

day for vitamin D defeciency.

I am still left with many symptoms (the implant even caused tremendous pains in

my bones (I am also on Adcal D3 for Vitamin D deficiency), especially my leg

bones, arms and neck) and also now have paniculitis, blepharitis and other

inflammatory problems from all this. A gynae appt lately has also given me a

diagnosis of benign cyclical oedema and the consultant tells me there's no cure.

As I've mentioned before, I do have many other symptoms still going on and it

feels like I'm getting nowhere fast in finding out answers. The things I want to

be sorted especially are my bad headaches, this awful lightheadedness and

floating feeling I have in my head and neck pain.All I know is that my own GP

did diagnose me with auto immune thyroid many years ago and I started on 25mcg

at that time (now 100mcg). Is it possible that the thyroid tests show up as

normal (ie TSH, T4 etc) and give a false reading because of the auto immune

condition?

I have family with auto immune conditions too but different to mine.Any ideas

would be gratefully received.

Thank you

[Guest guest]

Interesting about the Premarin. WHen I was struggling to get an answer to why

I felt so grim and had put 2 stone on in 7 months - the GP and Practice Nurse

kept me going for nearly 2 yrs telling me that it was menopause and just

basically had to put up with it - out of desperation I agreed to try Premarin

and within 6 wks felt bloated and murderous and like nothing on earth -I stopped

it and within a couple of weeks felt ok - but if my thyroid was low on hormone

anyway - then this would probably made it worse.

I had always been sensitive to the pill which I took only briefly in my 20's and

then at 35 I had a Depo Prvera contraceptive injection which made me feel so

unwell and again bloated and angry - it went eventually but something was nto

agreeing with me and the GP did not understand.

Stacey

[Guest guest]

Hi there,

Oestrogen depletes thyroid hormone !

Best wishes

Mandy

[Guest guest]

Hi Mandy, some of the information you post can be very

interesting, but it doesn't mean very much if such information is not

backed up with reference to the evidence. We do ask that members supply this in

the Home Page Message.

Luv - Sheila

Hi there,

Oestrogen depletes

thyroid hormone !

Best wishes

Mandy

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