Low thyroid and joint pain
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I started experiencing joint pain in my right elbow about 4 months ago, and he told me it was probably tennis elbow. Well....the pain has gotten worse and now it's in both my arms! I have gone from hypo to hyper and I'm going in tomorrow to get my blood tested again. I know I'm not right because I've been hving hot flashes and fast heartbeats. I've also been struggling with weight gain and it's driving me nuts.
My symptoms are basically strong joint pain in the fingers, wrists, feet, toes, and knees. The pain began in February and has continued until now. It tends to get worse toward the night. I have a very small amount of morning stiffness, not much at all--sometimes, none at all.
I am under the care of a rheumatologist. Here are my results. RF = negative, Anti-CCP = negative, CRP = negative, ESR = negative. X-ray = negative for joint damage and inflammation.
Don't know if it will help but I've had constant joint pain, extreme fatigue and weight gain. Turns out my TSH was high and my FT3 was so low was abnormal. Thank goodness my Dr. decided to listen and loweredy synthroid and added a T3 medicine. Joint pain is gone. Not as fatigued. Feeling much better..Wishing ya luck in finding a good Dr. And one that listens.
Thank you...I was finding myself addressing the adrenals.....this group is making life bearable, and not like I'm making up my symptoms, as my Doctor hinted...to quote"I've never heard of low thyroid and joint pain". made me feel like a real fool.
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Muscle spasms, weakness, joint pain, 2 days of panic attacks, tiredness, intermittent pain in thyroid, rapid weight loss of 11lbs in a week and a half and will probably continue since this seems to be the norm of losing 30-35 lbs in a months time.
CBC all within range. He didn't check my cholesterol, ldl, hdl like he did last year. I've never had any other tests done. In the middle of switching doctors.
s, the thyroid levels swing back and forth -sometimes too high, creating irritable bowel symptoms and high blood pressure and palpitations, -and sometimes too low, creating leg swelling, joint inflammation, fatigue, poor memory, feeling cold all the time, low blood pressure, menstrual irregularities, etc...
If anyone has these symptoms several months after treatment, get your thyroids checked! -Especially the antibodies! (Even if the other lab values are "normal").
I went to the Dr. the first of Novenber for Hip pain. I had heard that muscle and joint pain can come frome hypothyroid so I asked them to do more bloodwork. I was Hypothyroid according to the bloodwork so they started me on Synthroid. I had bloodwork done last week and they said it was normal and to just stay on my current dosage. I have been to 2 orthopedics since November for my hip musce and joint apin and it is no better.
Has anyone experienced joint pain relief from taking thyroid medication? I had an active auto immune disease that is no longer active, but still have joint pain. I am also recovering from drug and alcohol addiction and am scared to take the medication. I tried it once and felt like my heart was racing, very thirst, and very uncomfortable. It was a bad experience. My doctor told me to half the dose, but I was to scared to try it again.
Laura,
I have not had thyroid tests run recently, although I have in the past. The joint pain, mood swings and low (low) labido are new since the IUD, but I've had some level of fatigue for some time. My TSH is always in the normal range, albeit higher than some research suggests is optimal.
*General Inflammation and G/I inflammation(Very common with low thyroid sufferers) or Leaky Gut Syndrome.
* Low fat diet or issues with fat digestion also relating to not enough cholesterol for hormonal AND vitamin D synthesis ( vit D is fat soluble)
* Obesity
* certain drugs
* high cortisol
* Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) gene mutation ( genetic /autoimmune) or decreased VDR expression, common with hypothyroid & Hashimoto's sufferers also.
Joint pain (and muscle weakness) can be thyroid related but it can also be low nutrients. I started treated B12, Iron, B3, Zinc, and Vitamin D deficiencies for over a month and can finally lift a full gallon of milk without feeling like it was far too heavy for my control. I think it's the vitamins rather than my thyroid medicine doing the trick because I've only been on thyroid meds for 10 days.
Please post your most recent thyroid related blood tests, and their reference ranges. Some of us with muscle/joint pain find that we simply need to increase our dosage.
If you have Hashimoto's (which causes thyroid inflammation), you will need to increase your medication, as the antibodies destroy healthy thyroid tissue.
It's true that supplementing with magnesium can help relieve the pain; I find that adding calcium helps.
Typically, if the muscle/joint pain is thyroid related, hormone replacement will ease the pain and you should not need narcotics or other pain killers. If the hormone replacement doesn't alleviate your pain and/or other symptoms, either your hormone dosage isn't high enough, or your pain may be related to something else. I also have osteoarthritis and am never entirely pain free.
Hypothyroidism can be also be a result of low tissue thyroid effects, which result from low tissue thyroid levels and other co-factors like Vitamin D and Reverse T3. One of the best measures of tissue thyroid levels is the ratio of Free T3 to Reverse T3. Also here is a link on the importance of Vitamin D to thyroid hormone metabolism in cells. .
http://thyroid.about.com/od/Vitamins-and-Supplements/fl/Why-is-Vitamin-D-So-Important-to-Thyroid-Patients.
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