Underweight and Hypothyroid?

[Guest guest]

HI, I am new here. I'm a longtimer at a major psychiatric forum, and

have visited the chelation forums for a few months. I am

mercury/lead toxic in early stages of chelation. I am a functional

dad and worker but more ill than people know. You all know exactly

what I mean.

I have a question on thyroid. I have already heard the answer

is " yes " from other forums, but I wanted to get input here. The

question is, can someone hypothyroid be extremely thin and not be

able to gain weight despite a healthy appetite? I've been told

hypothyroid can mess up enzymes and absorption and other unknown

processes. One person emailed me back and said they too were deathly

thin and gained weight after being put on Armour.

I did try Armour for 3 days at just 1/4 pill twice a day. I started

feeling a lot worse. Quite depressed and lethargic. Based on what

I've been reading, I believe I need to treat adrenals first, and/or

I may need time release T3 instead and avoid T4. I do have confirmed

adrenal weakness, where my cortisol is below normal all day, and

shoots up above normal at night. I have all the classic symptoms of

adrenal insufficiency. All supplements made me feel much worse. I

think I have talked my doc into hydrocortisone finally. I believe

that will happen at my next appointment.

Of all the symptoms of various forms of hypothyroidism, I have

probably 75% of them. The one common one I do not have is weight

gain. 125 pounds at 6'. I believe the biggest clue of all is

temperature. Morning it is 97.4-97.6, and then the rest of the day

it holds steady between 97.9-98.1. Just those 3 days on Armour I saw

it rise to 98.3 which I haven't seen in forever.

I can't seem to find my thyroid lab test, but as I recall TSH was

midrange normal, T4 was good normal, and T3 was suspect low normal.

I remember thinking it looked like TSH thought everything was fine

when in fact T3 and T4 looked kind of confused.

Back to the original question. Hypothyroid and thin? Comments?

[Guest guest]

Yes hypothyroid can cause thinness as well as overweight but usually it

will be MUCH worse when coupled with very weak adrenals. Weak adrenals

until treated WILL make you feel much worse when you try Armour. Once on

the HC you should tolerate Armoru much better and be able to get on with

gettign better. We havea suggeested ramp up schedule in our files

section for HC under How to treat Adrenals. There is also an excellent

FAQ sheet in there too.

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http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/

[Guest guest]

I can only comment about the adrenals right now as I'm waiting for the

thyroid labs. I can tell you this. I've been really thin since

childhood (38 now). In my 20's doctors always asked questions about my

weight in a suspicious tone of voice - it was obvious they thought I

had an eating disorder. I tried to gain weight for 1.5 years by over

eating (my dr said it'd make me feel better - just made me feel full).

After starting cortef, I gained weight - no problem - up 3 sizes in 6

months! Woohoo! I've also been symptomatic of adrenal trouble with my

earliest memorable symptom at 6 years old. (Most kids don't take salt

shakers to the playground!)

I can also tell you this - my former dr wanted to treat my mercury,

lead and aluminum toxicity with dmsa. We did. I got much much worse

and had to stop after 5 months. In addition to a multitude of

problems, I developed a chronic sinus infection and just recently got

off the antibiotics that I had taken for 16 months (sometimes up to

two antibiotics at a time to keep the infection at bay). I have a new

dr right now that wants to try it again using a different chelating

agent. My adrenals have been a inconsistent lately and I have real

reservations about moving forward with that protocol. I'm scared I'll

end up like I did last time. Not sure of how it might impact you and

your situation, but be careful with the chelation. I think it's

probably good to do IF you're strong enough, but if not it can be REAL

TROUBLE

Best of luck!

>

> HI, I am new here. I'm a longtimer at a major psychiatric forum, and

> have visited the chelation forums for a few months. I am

> mercury/lead toxic in early stages of chelation. I am a functional

> dad and worker but more ill than people know. You all know exactly

> what I mean.

>

> I have a question on thyroid. I have already heard the answer

> is " yes " from other forums, but I wanted to get input here. The

> question is, can someone hypothyroid be extremely thin and not be

> able to gain weight despite a healthy appetite? I've been told

> hypothyroid can mess up enzymes and absorption and other unknown

> processes. One person emailed me back and said they too were deathly

> thin and gained weight after being put on Armour.

>

> I did try Armour for 3 days at just 1/4 pill twice a day. I started

> feeling a lot worse. Quite depressed and lethargic. Based on what

> I've been reading, I believe I need to treat adrenals first, and/or

> I may need time release T3 instead and avoid T4. I do have confirmed

> adrenal weakness, where my cortisol is below normal all day, and

> shoots up above normal at night. I have all the classic symptoms of

> adrenal insufficiency. All supplements made me feel much worse. I

> think I have talked my doc into hydrocortisone finally. I believe

> that will happen at my next appointment.

>

> Of all the symptoms of various forms of hypothyroidism, I have

> probably 75% of them. The one common one I do not have is weight

> gain. 125 pounds at 6'. I believe the biggest clue of all is

> temperature. Morning it is 97.4-97.6, and then the rest of the day

> it holds steady between 97.9-98.1. Just those 3 days on Armour I saw

> it rise to 98.3 which I haven't seen in forever.

>

> I can't seem to find my thyroid lab test, but as I recall TSH was

> midrange normal, T4 was good normal, and T3 was suspect low normal.

> I remember thinking it looked like TSH thought everything was fine

> when in fact T3 and T4 looked kind of confused.

>

> Back to the original question. Hypothyroid and thin? Comments?

>