With hashimotos there is no cure mainly you can control it with medication or surgery to remove your thyroid, but you will still need to take the medication.
Find an integrative/functional medicine Dr! Endocrinologist do not look at the whole picture of what is going on in your body and most people suffer with Hashimoto's for years with Dr's that refuse to even test for this condition!
That depends on who you ask. Conventional approaches to treating autoimmune disorders including Hashimoto's disease usually involve “watching and waiting” and taking medications, such as the synthetic thyroid hormone called levothyroxine. They cure the symptom but not the root- cause. There are other approaches that is FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE that helped a lot of people so far.
Diet (paleo diet-autoimmune), supplements (according to their needs), regulation of hormones (thyroid, sex, and cortisol), exercise, stress reduction and the regulation of sleep.
I have been having a variety of health problems since I was 17. It started out with back pain. Then at the end of 2008, when I was 18, I was in a car accident and my back pain got worse. On top of that, I started to have pain in my hips, shoulders an...
Although I wasn't diagnosed until 2014, my symptoms indicate I've had Thyroid autoimmune disease for more than 20 years. I'm struggling to find a good MD in Chicagoland who specializes in thyroid autoimmune treatment with a holistic approach. Drugs...
It's a family affair; most of the women on my mothers side of the family have it. My grandmother (my mothers mother) had Hashimoto and underwent an operation to have her thyroid removed. My mother has been upp and down (hyper to hypo) but I don't kno...
I am a 65-year-old-woman who has been sick for a very, very long time. I was struglling with severe bacterial skin infections, extreme exhaustion and fatique and lack of energy. My Hasimotos' Throiditus was triggered by mold in the workplace. After t...
In the early'90s I was experiencing psychological issues like depression and anxiety. Around 2002 I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. In 2010 I was tested and diagnosed with Hashimoto's, which may have been the disease that bought on my bipolar di...
my doctor only orders TSH and my last lab was .098 ( range 0.04 - 4).
i am still having sx such as low energy, weight gain, moody.
i take Synthroid 75 mcg and Cytomel 10 twice a day.
not sure if not converting and pooling are the hey same thing but h...