One more OT - Does a thyroid problem affect digestive motility

[Guest guest]

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