Thyroid and mental illness/depression problems

Open Eyes · Sep 15, 2018, 09:18 PM

Addressing the Connection Between Suicide and Thyroid Disease

I saw this article and thought it would be excellent to post here for PC members to read. Sometimes depression and even what may seem bipolar symptoms can actually be due to a thyroid challenge.

-jimi- · Sep 16, 2018, 12:01 PM

Doctors are so dumb about this. I'm not allowed to even try switching thyroid medication despite having a lot of hypothyroid symptoms, instead I am suggested to LOWER my Synthroid......

I'm not allowed the T3 med because according to the doctor, my T3 is within normal range. I ask about numbers but I get no reply. So I will have to get a printout of all my tests because I'm not allowed to see my own lab results.

At the same time he wants me on blood pressure meds because I am two measly points above normal diastole. Idiot.

Ylba · Sep 20, 2018, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by -jimi-

Doctors are so dumb about this. I'm not allowed to even try switching thyroid medication despite having a lot of hypothyroid symptoms, instead I am suggested to LOWER my Synthroid......

I'm not allowed the T3 med because according to the doctor, my T3 is within normal range. I ask about numbers but I get no reply. So I will have to get a printout of all my tests because I'm not allowed to see my own lab results.

At the same time he wants me on blood pressure meds because I am two measly points above normal diastole. Idiot.

Do you know if your doctor gave you a full panel looking at tsh, free t3, reverse t3, t4, etc? A lot of conventional doctors don't do this. I had a test showing my T3 levels were normal but when they looked at reverse T3 (the one that causes hypothyroidism), the level was really high.