Re: Can very low thyroid hormone levels encourage allergies?

March 14, 2012

Hello Marie

I can't remember, did you have a total thyroidectomy 20 years

ago? What other symptoms are you suffering apart from severe allergies to yeast

and soya. Have a check here

http://centerforfoodallergies.com/hypothyroidism.htm

http://www.drlwilson.com/articles/food_intolerance.htm

Have you tried cutting out all foods containing yeast and soya

to see if that helps?

However, I am amazed that such a reaction can happen and cause

such low levels of thyroid hormone, pushing your TSH up over 100, after

being anaesthetised.

Your body cannot function without thyroid hormones.

BTW - what are the reference ranges for each of the tests done

as we cannot really help unless we know these.

Luv - Sheila

I am hoping that someone can help me with this query. Currently, I am battling

with very low thyroid hormone levels, which are pretty much non-existant, due

to a severe reaction to anaesthetic back along and having to come off my meds

for almost three months - Which is a problem in intself, as I had a

thyroidectomy 20 years ago..

I seem to be battling with severe allergies to yeast and soya in particular, at

the moment, both bring me out in a nasty rash, and was wondering if anyone knew

if this could be down to severely depleted thyroid levels??

Just for the record, my bloods taken in December read as follows:-

Free T4 - 1.3 pmol/L

Free T3 - 0.4 pmol/L

TSH - Greater than 100 mu/l

Any help, would be much appreciated.

Marie

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March 14, 2012

Hi Marie,

I would say yes it is due to low thyroid hormone due

to your thyroid having to use up cortisol/adrenaline to keep you going instead

of thyroid hormone.

I had the same happen to me – it’s awful.

Try adding Vitamin C to your supplement regime if you

have one to kick the adrenals to give you a little more cortisol.

Hope this helps

Best wishes

Mandy

March 14, 2012

Hi Marie, is the skin rash little bumps under the skin.? if so this is likely to be dermatitis herpetiformis, and is closely associated withgluten-sensitivity. if not it could be another skin disease.! maybe atopic dermatitis, either way you need to look up autoimmune skin diseases. angel. who has had this recentlyas i am now gluten sensitive.!!!!

March 14, 2012

Hi Sheila,

Thanks for the links, and yes, I am avoiding all yeast and soya products

currently.

Yes, I had a total thyroidectomy, 20 plus years ago - Symptoms now, as per full

blown hypo, severe lethargy, bloatedness, brain fog, weight gain etc etc - Only

difference is, that I recall what a slow and uphill struggle it was 5 years ago,

trying to get my body to take up the ndt hormones, past shaky adrenals, and

sensitive receptors, and cannot quite believe I'm back there again..

To be honest, I have not felt right since the intensive dental work, & when you

are in the dentists chair for 2-3 hrs at a time, it can and does, have

repercussions from massive amounts of anaesthetic being administered & absorbed

by the body, especially if it was adrenalin based, as mine was.

Ranges as follows:-

Serum Free T4 U 11-26 (1.3 pmol/L)

Serum Free T3 U 3.9-6.8 (0.4 pmol/L)

Serum TSH level U 0.35-4.5 (Greater than 100.00 mu/l)

I now have to get from 3 qtrs of ndt daily, to 3 tablets, and would hope to

reach some stage of normality during the summer, fingers crossed.

Marie

>

> Hello Marie

>

> I can't remember, did you have a total thyroidectomy 20 years ago? What

> other symptoms are you suffering apart from severe allergies to yeast and

> soya. Have a check here

>

> http://centerforfoodallergies.com/hypothyroidism.htm

>

> http://www.drlwilson.com/articles/food_intolerance.htm

>

March 15, 2012

Marie, have you considered telephoning (or writing) to Dr

Peatfield, and/or, if you have a FAX machine, send him a FAX roughly setting

out your problem and sending it to him. He can then take into consideration

what your problem might be and he will either telephone you or write to you.

You are, after all, one of his patients. Tell him that I asked you to contact

him because it does appear to be a problem that needs somebody with great

experience in this field.

Let me know what he says,

Luv - Sheila

Hi Sheila,

Thanks for the links, and yes, I am avoiding all yeast and soya products

currently.

Yes, I had a total thyroidectomy, 20 plus years ago - Symptoms now, as per full

blown hypo, severe lethargy, bloatedness, brain fog, weight gain etc etc - Only

difference is, that I recall what a slow and uphill struggle it was 5 years

ago, trying to get my body to take up the ndt hormones, past shaky adrenals,

and sensitive receptors, and cannot quite believe I'm back there again..

To be honest, I have not felt right since the intensive dental work, & when

you are in the dentists chair for 2-3 hrs at a time, it can and does, have

repercussions from massive amounts of anaesthetic being administered &

absorbed by the body, especially if it was adrenalin based, as mine was.

Ranges as follows:-

Serum Free T4 U 11-26 (1.3 pmol/L)

Serum Free T3 U 3.9-6.8 (0.4 pmol/L)

Serum TSH level U 0.35-4.5 (Greater than 100.00 mu/l)

I now have to get from 3 qtrs of ndt daily, to 3 tablets, and would hope to

reach some stage of normality during the summer, fingers crossed.

Marie

March 15, 2012

Just wondering Marie, could your present symptoms be mercury

poisoning when you had your amalgam fillings removed, or a result of the

anaesthetic. Have you been tested to see whether it could be mercury? http://www.dentalwellness4u.com/mercurydetox/testformercury.html