A STRAW POLL ON WHO HAS LOW THYROID AND HIGH CHOLESTEROL?

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

I have high cholesterol - early days bloods were taken to see if symptoms were

to do with thyroid - they always came back 'normal' and was always told my chol

was high. Very early days was put on statins for 6 months and my hair thinned

out. Don't take now.

Even in leaflet they hand out on cholesterol it mentions thyroid issues in

there.

It is not rocket science (and Sheila put an interesting link in a thread

earlier) so whu do they fail to understand that treat the underlying probs to

bring it down.

So - would be interesting to see - just put if you are hypoT etc and whether you

have high cholesterol?

Thanks

Stacey

[Guest guest]

I have refused many times to take statins saying that until my thyroid is functioning properly my cholesterol will remain high. They are quite happy to dish out statins which have many side effects but seem to resist increasing thyroid meds ??? We should all try to find medics who are fellow sufferers!!!

[Guest guest]

I am hypothyroid but have low cholesterol, which is apparently much worse for

your health than high. Maybe the right thyroid treatment will correct this -

I'll let you know!

Miriam

> So - would be interesting to see - just put if you are hypoT etc and whether

you have high cholesterol?