Help! About thyroid and weight loss

If it is underactive they will put you on medicine to regulate it. Once the medicine starts working it is like you don't have the problem at all. Same things apply for those of us with sad thyroids, eat less than you burn.

See your physician, preferrably an endocrinologist.

You should be able to lose weight just fine with dedication and careful calorie counting. I have hypothyroidism and an another autoimmune disorder and i lost all the weight i needed to lose BEFORE i found out and was diagnosed.

pollypocket1021 wrote: »

arb037 wrote: »

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

Educate yourself on common mis treatments and what all of the tests that are needed to properly diagnose what is going on with your thyroid

One of the doctors who wrote a chapter in that book lives down the street from me, so I bought it. Really good information about thyroid, by and large. But there is some quackery too. Like having special sheets that make contact with the ground to balance your electrons. It also has some weird nutritional advice that isn't grounded in science at all.

"earthing" or "grounding"?

rainbowbow wrote: »

pollypocket1021 wrote: »

arb037 wrote: »

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

Educate yourself on common mis treatments and what all of the tests that are needed to properly diagnose what is going on with your thyroid

One of the doctors who wrote a chapter in that book lives down the street from me, so I bought it. Really good information about thyroid, by and large. But there is some quackery too. Like having special sheets that make contact with the ground to balance your electrons. It also has some weird nutritional advice that isn't grounded in science at all.

"earthing" or "grounding"?

Just looked it up. Grounding, page 133.

BuddhaB0y wrote: »

Regardless of if you have an overactive or under active thyroid, they will prescribe synthroid. It sucks and takes a long time to get your levels right. I had some very nasty side effects from it, but many people function normally after getting their levels right. Good luck

Convinced my endo to put me on Armour after two years of synthroid and no effect at all on my numbers; it's been magic for me. The most stable year in a long time. If what you are using isn't working, ask for a change!!

Bhlinebee wrote: »

BuddhaB0y wrote: »

Regardless of if you have an overactive or under active thyroid, they will prescribe synthroid. It sucks and takes a long time to get your levels right. I had some very nasty side effects from it, but many people function normally after getting their levels right. Good luck

Convinced my endo to put me on Armour after two years of synthroid and no effect at all on my numbers; it's been magic for me. The most stable year in a long time. If what you are using isn't working, ask for a change!!

Wonderful!!!

I also have hypothyroidism. It just means we have to work a little harder.

riceflourde wrote: »

rainbowbow wrote: »

See your physician, preferrably an endocrinologist.

You should be able to lose weight just fine with dedication and careful calorie counting. I have hypothyroidism and an another autoimmune disorder and i lost all the weight i needed to lose BEFORE i found out and was diagnosed.

This is uncommon. It's very unlikely someone can lose weight with untreated hypothyroidism.

It is possible, but difficult....I did it a few years ago. But it was really hard. I would eat like 1200 to 1500 calories per day and the scale didn't move for like 8 weeks. And I measured and weighed everything. Then it would move a little and stall. I lost like 4 lbs in more than 90 days.

I found out after I lost those 4 lbs that I had hypothyroidism. And PCOS.

Now I'm back at it (baby weight), and I lost 10 lbs in like 6 weeks. It's so much easier this time. Still have PCOS but my hypothyroidism is under control.

When your thyroid levels are too low, you might have dry skin, excess hair loss, feel slow, etc. When the levels are too high (they are constantly tweaking the amount of synthroid that I have to take each week!), your metabolism is running at a faster pace - lose weight easier and it sounds great, but it takes a toll on your heart and they'll have to cut back down again. So your blood levels will be monitored from now on to make sure you aren't too low or too high. But the good news is that increasing your thyroid function does rev you up and make it easier to lose weight.

BuddhaB0y wrote: »

Here in Canada synthroid is prescribed for both overactive and under active thyroids.

Sadly I have asked about armour and a Canada brand here and all the docs look at me like I'm crazy and have no idea what I'm taking about. They are firmly in camp synthroid.

I've had terrible muscle cramps and weakness since going on it, yet they can't pin it down to the synthroid. I haven't been able to find an endocrinologist here willing to get down off their high horse long enough to consider alternatives.

Um.....no. Synthroid is a man- made thyroid hormone they give people who do not produce enough on their own (hypos). They do NOT give it to people who produce too much (hyper).

What they might do if you are hyper, is "kill off you thyroid" with radioactive iodine or remove it via surgery. This would then make you hypo....and THEN put you on synthroid.

Let's hope this is what your doctor is doing/has done...because if you are truly hyper right now and on synthroid....that's bad. Google it...

Losing while clinically hypo is near impossible. Losing once your under control can be difficult at times....but that's true anyway. I still find most of my plateaus and off weeks are more related to loosening my calories than anything. Not all....But most. I truly believe I have to eat 100-200 calories/day less than the non-hypo but in the big scheme of things, that's trivial.

I also truly believe not all hypos are created equal, so your mileage may vary :-P