Re: Body Dysmorphic Disorder / Low thyroid

October 6, 2004

Most people who are chronically hypo have a lot of trouble converting

betacarotene into Vitamin A, i.e., night blindness is well known to be

caused by lack of Vitamin A.

Re: Body Dysmorphic Disorder / Low thyroid

>

> I'm already getting some responses like this:

>

> Thank you so very much for that information......I have felt for years

that I

> had some kind of thyroid problem, but have always tested " within normal

> ranges " for the standard test....yet, when I read your list of symptoms, I

have, or

> have had in the past, almost every single one of those....!!!!! My younger

> sister has hypothyroid, and my older sister had half of her thyroid

removed

> because of some kind of cyst or growth......she also has had OCD symptoms

for

> years ( trichotillomania, to be exact, she pulled out all her eyelashes in

> college!!) I have had all of those symptoms for years and years, off and

on.. I had

> to have surgery last year to remove most of my endometrium because my

periods

> were sooo heavy, that I was incapacitated for a whole day some

> months........and have noticed lately that my night vision sucks, and I am

putting on weight

> when I have never had an issue with it before.....

> I am going to print out your email and call monday morning to make an

> appointment with my doctor.....

> Thank you so very much for your information- you have helped tremendously

October 6, 2004

Most people who are chronically hypo have a lot of trouble converting

betacarotene into Vitamin A, i.e., night blindness is well known to be

caused by lack of Vitamin A.

Re: Body Dysmorphic Disorder / Low thyroid

>

> I'm already getting some responses like this:

>

> Thank you so very much for that information......I have felt for years

that I

> had some kind of thyroid problem, but have always tested " within normal

> ranges " for the standard test....yet, when I read your list of symptoms, I

have, or

> have had in the past, almost every single one of those....!!!!! My younger

> sister has hypothyroid, and my older sister had half of her thyroid

removed

> because of some kind of cyst or growth......she also has had OCD symptoms

for

> years ( trichotillomania, to be exact, she pulled out all her eyelashes in

> college!!) I have had all of those symptoms for years and years, off and

on.. I had

> to have surgery last year to remove most of my endometrium because my

periods

> were sooo heavy, that I was incapacitated for a whole day some

> months........and have noticed lately that my night vision sucks, and I am

putting on weight

> when I have never had an issue with it before.....

> I am going to print out your email and call monday morning to make an

> appointment with my doctor.....

> Thank you so very much for your information- you have helped tremendously

October 6, 2004

During one long time period, before my thyroid actually crashed into hypo, I

was diagnosed by one doctor as having bipolar disorder. No, he didn't treat

me with the old standard of Lithium at all. Instead, he gave me tricyclic

antidepressants, which sent me further into HYPER hell, therefore, further

manic symptoms. Did I feel bad? No, I had anxiety and panic attacks, but

physically and mentally and emotionally, I could never find enough to do.

My energy was very far extended, to a dangerous point, as some of the things

that I found to do weren't good for me. Yes, it helped me be aggressive

enough to get out of a terrible marriage, but for yrs, my body and mind were

" busy " all the time, as this is the only way that I can find to describe

this period of time. Guess what it all was----my fairly- odd- phase of

HYPERthyroidism of Hashimoto's Disease (and who even knows if Grave's was

involved there, as I haven't had a TSI or whatever it's called)!!! When the

crash came, I had been having horrible headaches, approximately one week on,

then one week off, had been visiting the doctor for two or 3 months for this

and other vague symptoms, until I crashed one day, with shakes, nausea

(probably also adrenal fatigue or complete exhaustion), and yelled for help

to my doctor of the time. This is the day I was tentatively diagnosed, then

proven by blood tests. Why is it that they just can't rule this out

initially, to avoid some of the heartaches of this disease, that most of the

time, includes MENTAL and EMOTIONAL disorders that didn't have to happen.

Thyroid disease CAN induce mania to the nth degree. I had gone on like that

for 6 or 7 yrs, going to doctor after doctor saying that something was

wrong, and even tried to get them to run thyroid tests on me, but they

wouldn't do it. It is SO sorry.

Re: Body Dysmorphic Disorder / Low thyroid

>

> I think this article could apply to a broader range of people that

> have anxiety, depression, panic attachs, etc... not just those with

> BDD.

>

> One can't help but get depressed from the debilatating fatigue and

> have anxiety from all the things left undone at end of the day!!!

>

> Why doesn't the doctor give armour as first choice of treatment

> instead of prozac!!

>

> This is such a crooked and cruel world!

>

> S.

October 6, 2004