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"Symptoms of hypothyroidism can mimic, or be intertwined with, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression. Treating an underlying thyroid problem is critical to alleviating the associated psychiatric symptoms. The first hurdle to treating underlying hypothyroidism is in its diagnosis.
An article in Current Psychiatry Online focusing on the psychiatric presentation and diagnosis of hypothyroidism explains the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid endocrinology involved, psychiatric presentations, testing and treatment, including the treatment in conditions considered “sub-clinical”. Although in general practice, testing for hypothyroidism is usually limited to the testing of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), the article’s author, Dr. Thomas D. Geracioti Jr, MD calls for more extensive testing in patients exhibiting psychiatric symptoms.
Patients diagnosed with mental illnesses (especially those with a mood component) are more likely to have involvement of a thyroid hormone imbalance than the general population. Patients with thyroid disturbance and psychiatric symptoms are most often diagnosed with one of the following:
* atypical Depression (which may present as dysthymia)
* bipolar spectrum syndrome (including manic-depression, mixed mania, bipolar depression, rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, cyclothymia, and premenstrual syndromes)
* borderline personality disorder
* psychotic disorder (typically paranoid psychosis)
Psychiatric symptoms of hypothyroidism can include psychosis, depression, mood instability, mania, anxiety, hypersomnia, apathy, anergia, impaired memory, psychomotor slowing, and attentional problems. Other symptoms (such as hypersomnia and lethargy), as well as laboratory findings such as hypercholesterolemia, galactorrhea, hyperprolactinemia, menstrual irregularities, and sexual dysfunction could be misconstrued as resulting from the psychotropic medications being given to alleviate the psychiatric symptoms.
Because thyroid hormone levels have a circadian rhythm with a peak at night, Dr. Geracioti suggests that blood tests for hypothyroidism be done before 9AM in order to not miss subclinical hypothyroidism. Blood tests may need to be serially repeated and should include measurements of the following:
* thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)
* free triiodothyronine (T3)
* free levothyroxine (T4)
* total T3
* total T4
* antithyroid antibodies
* serum cholesterol
* prolactin
The endocrinology of hypothyroidism is complex. It can occur from a problem in the hypothalamus, the pituitary, in the thyroid itself, or even in the body’s own resistance to thyroid hormone, with varying levels of thyroid sensitivity in different organs of the body. When this happens in pediatric patients, symptoms additionally include short stature, learning problems, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
When it comes to augmenting psychiatric treatment with thyroid hormone, the author asserts,
“Psychiatric patients with subclinical hypothyroidism—especially those with incomplete responses to psychotropic therapy—should usually be treated with thyroid hormone. Free T3 levels in the lower 20% of the laboratory’s normal range are cause for pause in a patient with a mood or psychotic disorder and any of hypothyroidism’s clinical stigmata, even if thyroxine and TSH concentrations are normal.”
Also, in regards to depressive symptoms:
“In some patients with no clear evidence of a biochemical or clinical thyroid disorder, mood symptoms nevertheless respond to thyroid hormone augmentation of antidepressants.”
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,096,318We've certainly seen our share of mood swings on this board(I resemble that remark)...
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This is a reply to # 1,096,322there are no more wacked out substances than mercury and fluoride. its no wonder people have holes in their brains.
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This is a reply to # 1,096,265This is true. I am a living testimony to it.
Years ago our insurance changed from PPO to HMO and so we had a different doctor. I took my empty bottle of Synthroid in to get a refill. (At that time I had been out for about a month.)
They wouldn't refill it. Said they had to blood tests to verify... even though they had the records. Three months later with continuing blood tests to monitor thyroid hormones I finally bottomed out and it was decided by them that I did in fact need the Synthroid.
Those death doctors allowed me to crash and burn because prior to them giving me a refill I had a psychotic break. Thank God my best friend's grandmother had had a similar experience! Her grandmother was put in a mental hospital for a few months before it was discovered that she was low on thyroid. When she was put on it, her psych problems disappeared.
I should have sued... not only lost my health (slowly), I also lost my lost mental health (temporarily-- some might contest that, lol), lost a business and had to declare bankruptcy after selling everything we could.
I/we have yet to recover from that ordeal.
I am so thankful for this forum (and this site) as not only am I no longer a victim of death doctors, but I no longer need the synthetic thyroid treatment with Iodine supplementation.
And, Iodine has done so much more for me than just getting me off those life-long "maintenance" pills too.
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This is a reply to # 1,096,418wow, quite a testimony there! :) Would you mind filling in some blanks for us?
Iodine...dosage, form?
Companion nutrients?
other protocols?
& How long have you been off of synthroid...and have you had any testing done since...?
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This is a reply to # 1,096,431Hello Wombat,
Sure, of course! :) Thank you for asking!
Oh gosh... the long story or the short story?
Okay, the short story.
I started out with kelp tablets, then went to detoxified Iodine until I had my dosage up to around 1/2 what a drop of Lugol's would provide and then went to Lugol's.
I have been taking 1 drop of Lugol's since June or July last year taking one or two days a week off. Just recently, in the last couple of weeks, I have been taking 2 drops Lugol's (vertical--- always vertical) maybe once or twice a week. Prior to the last couple of weeks, maybe once a month I would take a drop of Lugol's in the morning and one in the afternoon. This was a very rare occurance for me though.
Yes, I went the slow route because I had only just arrived at Curezone and hadn't yet gone through a bunch of cleansing. I had read that those who had been on the cleansing path had the least amount of trouble with the higher dosing of Iodine for deep detoxing.
Companion nutrients... since my main concern was (and is... though greatly improved) my liver and digestive issues: HCI, ACV and honey, kefir, Emergen-C and extra Vitamin C, occasional thyroid extract, as well as occasional selenium, magnesium and multi-vitamin supplements, real-salt 1/4 tsp per quart prill water, glass distilled water daily, eating as healthily as possible (with LOTS of organic apple juice)... and maybe others that I'm not thinking of at present.
Other protocols: oil-pulling 4 to 5 times a week, occasional liver flushes, periodic Humaworm, castor oil packs, weekly epsom's salt and baking soda baths, and... I think that that might be it, though, I could be overlooking something.
I've been off Synthroid since January 2007. Over a year now. No, I haven't been retested. With that said, however, I am intimately aware of what it feels like to slowly sink into the morass of not enough; and, what it feels like to be totally deprived. Once because of the death doctors and secondly because after that I didn't refill my meds a couple times until it became imperative that I did... based upon how I was feeling. Having the hormone decrease can be felt and due to my experience I knew what my window of time was.
At the time I began supplementing with the kelp tablets I was getting very close to having to go to the doctor to pay him to write on his RX pad for a refill as I hadn't had any for approximately 2 months. The kelp tablets alone slowed the progression of the decreasing hormone. When I went to detoxified, I could feel my system rebounding and regain previous levels. Even before I went to Lugol's I was feeling better than I had ever felt while taking Synthroid. And, that great feeling has continued and increased since taking Lugol's. Eyesight is better, energy is better, skin is better, joints are better, brain fog gone, just better all around! I even used to get cold taking Synthroid and I don't anymore with Lugol's.
I know that testing would be a more solid evidence over the subjectiveness of how I am feeling, but I sooooo don't want to go to the doctors ever again! Over the years I had become increasingly disillusioned with their "practicing" medicine, and after that experience I only begrudgingly went because I had to have the Synthroid to keep functioning.
Interestingly enough, I had always hoped and wished that I wouldn't have to take that drug forever and my hope came true.
Whew!~ LOL, probably a good thing that I choose to give the short story. :)
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This is a reply to # 1,096,485THANK you! We love details:) And, very wise of you to go the slow route considering you hadn't done any cleansing. Just goes to show what low doses can do for you...:) Can you tell me what sort of thyroid extract you've been taking?
The only reason I asked about the testing is because you obviously had, before, and someone out there might find whatever "results" you received comforting. I certainly would put more stock in how I feel than some numbers...
Feel free to give us the long version any time...- damn right trapper/kcmo
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This is a reply to # 1,096,631on all counts. and i am wondering how many more are lurking with similar tales of success to tell.
death doctors. how very fitting. bravo.
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This is a reply to # 1,096,265Thank you so much for posting this very important message! As a clinical psychologist I can tell you that, although this is touched upon as part of a psychologist's training, it is not given nearly as much attention as it should be! And my concentration of study was in Health Psychology, where there is even more focus on the mind-body interaction. So in a general clinical training, it is hardly touched upon at all. And unfortunately, it has been considered even less often in actual practice. Between all the therapists that I have personally seen, and also all that I have known as colleagues, there are only a very small percentage that even take thyroid functioning into consideration as a factor in the conditions that you have listed. This most definitely needs to change as so many people are suffering needlessly! And one of my new projects is to shed light upon the mental health system in its entirety since it is drastically in need of an overhaul! I even have a patron saint for 'the cause'; St. Teresa of Avila was also known as the Patron Saint of Hysteria, lol! She's a damn good gal to have on your side; what a feisty lady that one was!
There is at least one other condition that you can add to your list. There has been much speculation that Borderline Personality Disorder is actually a form of PTSD. And in looking at PTSD from an energetic perspective, it would make sense that the thyroid gland would be involved in this condition. The thyroid, being located in the throat, would also be a throat chakra issue. And it would stand to reason that people who have experienced horrendous abuse, and suffer with symptoms of PTSD or Borderline Personality, would also have difficulties with giving a voice to their experience. Here is a nice source of information on the throat chakra:
http://www.kheper.net/topics/chakras/Throat.htm
And from that site we also see that the throat chakra is also connected to the flow of love and the heart chakra:
"When there is an insufficent flow of love or emotional nourishment to the Heart-chakra, the person may try to compensate by desire for physical nourishment through the Throat Chakra. Problems with gluttony or compulsive eating would then result. When there is also a negative functioning in the base-of-the-neck chakra (negative self-image) the result could be bulimia and anorexia."
And so we also see that eating disorders are additionally related. This would be consistent with the symptom profile for Borderline Personality Disorder. Now by charting these symptoms on a linear scale, and placing 'pathological' eating disorders at one end of the spectrum, and states like obesity on that line within the 'normal' range of human functioning, what emerges is a continuum of conditions that are all related to the same core issues. And is it any wonder then, that the majority of Americans are overweight and also suffer from some degree of Depression at some time in their life?
This also suggests that there is not the clearly -defined separation from one psychiatric 'disorder' to another, and my own experiences have born this out to be the truth. All dis-ease is essentially from the same root causes. And this cause, at the root, is a lack of nourishment to the heart! The answer, then, to all dis-ease is to get the love flowing freely! Yep, love is the key, folks!
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This is a reply to # 1,096,265My daughter suffered in high school and her first year of college with terrible depression, she was cold all the time, slept for 12 to 14 sometimes 17 hours. her hair was falling out, cold body temperature, 97-97.6, hypoglycemic, argumentative, stuck thinking - no rounding off of time. if it was 2 til 3 it was 2 til 3. She would get up all hours of the night to go to the bathroom. She had suicidal thoughts and just didn't see the purpose in anything. We went to alot of doctors. Her thyroid was checked numerous times but nothing ever showed up. I finally found someone that would go by her symptoms. She was put on wilsons thyroid syndrome protocal and it was miraculous. She laughs and jokes now. No going to the bathroom all night. The first night she actually slept through the whole night she came running out of her room and said mom, mom, I actually slept all night, I only got up to go once and it was at about 5. Her body temps have went up to 98.6, her Acne is clearing up and her complexion looks kind of peachy. T3 has been a blessing for me. If anyone has any mental issues I would sure look into wilsons thyroid or t3 therapy. The t3 he recommends is a sustained release not the other and it is natural. The other good thing is my daughter was on for only a few weeks, its just long enough to get your body temps regulated and back to 98.6 average. Good luck all of you all searching for the answer.
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