Re: One more OT - Does a thyroid problem affect digestive motility

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Hi Holly,

I found this. Don't know how true it is but it makes sense. Alot of people on thyroid hormone do not eat gluten due to the fact that they have hashimoto's. I think it is all connected it has certainly helped my dads digestion.

http://thyroid-rt3.com/digestio.htm

Sky

To: BTVC-SCD Sent: Tue, 16 March, 2010 10:01:41 AMSubject: One more OT - Does a thyroid problem affect digestive motility

I suspect I am hypothyroid (will find out more this week). I've been taking my temperature a lot to see if it's low and how it varies. Well yesterday, it was lower then usual (I don't think it went over 97). After dinner, it felt like my food was just sitting in my stomach, not moving an inch. Occasionally I would get a glurk, but mostly I just had the sensation that my intestines were not moving whatsoever. It kind of freaks me out, because it's reminiscent of how I'd feel when I had a bowel obstruction (minus the severe pain). When I went to bed, I got glurks and pains when I would roll over. This of course makes me worry that I'm building up scar tissue again. I haven't eaten anything today except yogurt, because my insides still feel stationary.So can being hypothyroid suddenly slow your motility to a crawl? I used to be bothered by horrid constipation, but SCD fixed that. When I googled thyroid and digestive motility, I found some very

complicated medical journals that seemed to suggest the possibility (hard to say for sure with all their scientific jargon), and one said something about "pseudo-obstruction syndrome" ( http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/15788986 ).Also, I recall once when I was hospitalized hearing a tech saying my ileum had shut down. Can guts just spontaneously decide to quit working for awhile? I seem to go through this every so often.Thanks for insight you may have!HollyCrohn'sSCD 12/01/08

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Interesting, thanks Sky!

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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> Hi Holly,

>

> I found this. Don't know how true it is but it makes sense. Alot of people on

thyroid hormone do not eat gluten due to the fact that they have hashimoto's. I

think it is all connected it has certainly helped my dads digestion.

>

> http://thyroid-rt3.com/digestio.htm

>

> Sky

>

>

>

>

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> To: BTVC-SCD

> Sent: Tue, 16 March, 2010 10:01:41 AM

> Subject: One more OT - Does a thyroid problem affect digestive

motility

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>  

> I suspect I am hypothyroid (will find out more this week). I've been taking my

temperature a lot to see if it's low and how it varies. Well yesterday, it was

lower then usual (I don't think it went over 97). After dinner, it felt like my

food was just sitting in my stomach, not moving an inch. Occasionally I would

get a glurk, but mostly I just had the sensation that my intestines were not

moving whatsoever. It kind of freaks me out, because it's reminiscent of how I'd

feel when I had a bowel obstruction (minus the severe pain). When I went to bed,

I got glurks and pains when I would roll over. This of course makes me worry

that I'm building up scar tissue again. I haven't eaten anything today except

yogurt, because my insides still feel stationary.

>

> So can being hypothyroid suddenly slow your motility to a crawl? I used to be

bothered by horrid constipation, but SCD fixed that. When I googled thyroid and

digestive motility, I found some very complicated medical journals that seemed

to suggest the possibility (hard to say for sure with all their scientific

jargon), and one said something about " pseudo-obstruction syndrome " (

http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/15788986 ).

>

> Also, I recall once when I was hospitalized hearing a tech saying my ileum had

shut down. Can guts just spontaneously decide to quit working for awhile? I seem

to go through this every so often.

>

> Thanks for insight you may have!

>

> Holly

> Crohn's

> SCD 12/01/08

>

[Guest guest]

Kim, you were plenty helpful! I sporadically have the feeling that my digestive

system has shut down, or slowed to a crawl, so it's very interesting to hear

your experience with it. That really sucks that your docs won't take your

potential thyroid symptoms seriously. Mine haven't either, but hopefully my new

one will.

Mara, I've never been tested for Lyme. I was bitten by ticks (maybe 4 times)

while cleaning up branches behind our house (approximately in 2000). I never had

a rash, but 2 of those darn ticks were in my hair (blech!), so it could have

been hidden. I'll ask my doc this week.

Which reminds me of a really gross tick story. I was tickling my dogs tummy one

day, when I noticed something odd in his beard. It was a huge bluish green

blob(we're talking giant jelly bean sized here), and my first thought was an

icky abscess. Then I noticed the 3 little brown legs sticking straight out on

each side *shivers*. We had a vet remove it, and when she laid it on the table,

it's little legs came nowhere near reaching the tabletop. One of the most

disgusting things I've ever seen! I didn't know a tick's body could stretch so

thin.

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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> >> Hi Holly,

> >>

> >> I found this. Don't know how true it is but it makes sense. Alot of people

on thyroid hormone do not eat gluten due to the fact that they have hashimoto's.

I think it is all connected it has certainly helped my dads digestion.

> >>

> >> http://thyroid-rt3.com/digestio.htm

>

[Guest guest]

Sky

That

would be very helpful, if you can discover anyone reasonably near to my

location. I live in the US, along the Gulf Coast, halfway between Mobile

(Alabama) and Pensacola (Florida). I’m within a day’s drive

of Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, ville, Tampa.

Kim M.

SCD 6 years

Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction 6+ years

neurological & spinal deterioration 3+ years

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Hi

Kim

Where do you live? I will see if I can find a good thyroid doctor for you.

Sky