When we had hypo in our 20's and didn't know it

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Cindi, your post reminded me of all those years when I kept feeling

awful, but had no clue. It started around the time I got pregnant

with my second child--at age 25ish. I would have a strange " off "

feeling. Then when he was born, I was sick ALL the time when

nursing, and was SOOOO tired. Two years later, same with my 3rd son!

SICK all the time when I was nursing. During the 8 months that I

nursed my 3rd child, I had a minimum of 9 illnesses--mostly head

colds and finally pneumonia.

And by that time, I was unable to hold my toddlers very long without

feeling REALLY tired in my arms. I kept having to hand them over to

my husband.

And I went on like this until I was around 31. Put on Synthroid, and

guess what?? NOTHING CHANGED except my TSH. T4-only meds suck, suck,

suck.

Janie

>> Around my mid 20s I had hypo symptoms...but didn't go to a doc

for it until

> age 33 when the fatigue and some other things got sorta bad. The

first lab i

> have a copy is at age 39...and it was over 2. so i suppose my TSH

may have

> actually gone up some in my 20s...but over the decade or so...was

affected. I'm

> actually surprised it finally made it to 6 by age 49.

> Cindi

>