Thyroid activity and hair *color*

[Guest guest]

Can low thyroid activity in an 89 year old woman whose hair isn't yet

white (no pigment) cause " partial pigment loss " ? My grandmother had

gold-yellow hair (when she was about 40-60 I guess), and I'm

wondering if that could be another clue pointing to thyroid problems

- along with short-term memory, but NOT dementia (she can still do

grocery store math), and possibly hearing loss. I'm fighting a

futile battle here with a father whose oblivious (to my thyroid

problem, and would be downright hostile to a suggestion he might have

one [high cholesterol, perhaps a type of depress/fatigue]), and a

mother who ALSO won't get tested (also high chol., possibly fatigue,

throat clearing [perhaps cortisol]), and who says about my

grandmother " I think there are just some things you can't change " ..

Yes, there are, but there are also things you *can* change - quite

easily too.. All it takes is a damn simple $150 full thyroid panel,

or a good clinician who knows what symptoms to look for (and WILL!).

Arrghh,

Jim