A couple of members here, including myself, watched Robin McGraw yesterday speak about bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. Did you know that women as young as their teens can have hormonal imbalances ? And that you can show signs of perimenopause in your 20s... feel horrible and be misdiagnosed with chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia ? And yet the medical field has failed us again on this other issue.
//www.medhelp.org/posts/Thyroid-Disorders/Thyroid-Hormone-Resistance/show/1202364?personal_page_id=287727#post_5499329
It contains references to other sites that might be interesting to you. Unfortunately, the poster kind of disappeared. It was a very enlightening discussion, and she seemed to have a lot of information on the subject. I've tried to contact her to continue the discussion, but with no luck.
I was diagnosed at age 49 in May, 2007 with Stage II, 3 nodes positive. I had 4 rounds of A/C and 4 rounds of Taxol followed by 33 rounds of radiation. My doctor now wants to put me on hormone therapy. I am premenopausal but haven't gotten my period since July due to chemo. She won't put me on Tamoxifin because of a past history of TIA several years ago. She said I would be at too high a risk for stroke on it.
I have been told from the start that with a lumpectomy I would need radiation. I found out later about the hormone therapy. I want to know if this is standard of care for my situation. I had a 1cm lump including DCIS and ILC. My margins were 6mm, 1cm, 5cm, 6cm. The ILC was in a linear pattern and low nuclear grade. 4 of 4 nodes were negative for cancer. I am ER+ 100% and PR+ 90%. I am HER2 negative. I was told my cancer was caught very early and I should be OK.
Hi I was diagnosed with hyperthyroid about two years ago(graves disease) i was really sick. I had a thyroid storm.i got through it, was given radiation therapy now on thyroid meds. was stated now hypothyroid but my tsh level is 0.
The thyroid is responsible for producing three hormones: thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and calcitonin. Why are patients who have thyroidectomies only prescribed replacement therapy for thyroxine? I would think that if the body use to produce the other two hormones, they are important as well.
This discussion is related to <a href='http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/263611'>Thyroidectomy</a>.
Did you have a "complete" hysterectomy? If so, you would have gone through "surgical menopause" at that time, so would not have had "perimenopause" symptoms, just 2 yrs ago.
While the Hashimoto's may go into remission at some point, you will always have it and it's likely that your antibody level will continue to be higher than normal.
Here are some resources I suggest you research and maybe even talk to others with the same problem to share experiences it may help you feel better about your treatment decision.
Hormone Health Network information on thyroid disorders:
www.hormone.org/Resources/thyroid-disorders.cfm
• American Thyroid Association: www.thyroid.org
• Mayo Clinic: www.mayoclinic.com/health/graves-disease/
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• National Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases Information
Service (NIH): www.endocrine.niddk.nih.
I agree with Laura to check out the complementary medicine forum, but I'd also like to point out that iodine helps the thyroid produce hormone, provided that you have a healthy, working thyroid; if you have no thyroid, I'd have to advise extreme caution in taking it; and never do so without your doctor's blessing and help.
I concluded that the laser treatment had caused my thyroid to produce more thyroid hormone for my body, and that the amount of thyroid hormone being produced by my thyroid + the thyroid hormone from the Synthroid 125 pill was too much.
On 8/27/22, I did not take Synthroid at all.
From 8/28/22 to 8/30/22, I took Synthroid (125 mcg) every day.
In the afternoon of 8/30/22, the chiropractor gave me the second laser treatment on my thyroid.
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