Pain/tingling in thyroid

[Alexa]

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone has experienced a sensation of kind of a sharp pain but mixed with a tingle in their thyroid gland at any time or when they've been losing weight? I had it several years ago quite persistently and had an ultrasound and they said it looked fine but it could be cysts bleeding internally (yeah, nice thought) so nothing was done. I am having it again now and I wonder if my thyroid could be either 'recovering' - i.e. requiry less meds, or if it could be a reaction to mutlivitamins or something.

Anyone have any ideas/ suggestions? I kind of like to think it might be 'waking up' along with the rest of my body, but on the other hand I don't want it to be dangerous.

As background I have hypothyroidism and have had it the past 6 years (I'm 24). I'm on Levothyroxin (a brand of synthetic thyroid) 150mg a day (down from 175 mg changed a year ago and took ages to feel better, couldn't lose weight, went all forgetful, but feel dose is ok now).

Thanks for any help, Baarb

[2big4mysize]

Re: Pain/tingling in thyroid

welcome to the thyroid section

I've never heard of any low carbers having that. DO you have hasimoto's thyroiditis which is the autoimmune one?

there are some foods that will interfer with thyroid hormone function pn Atkins called goitrogens but I'm sure as a 6 yr vet you are aware of them.

Atkins in theory can actually hurt your availible thyroid hormone level because without the insulin interferrance more androgen gets made into estrogen and estrogen sneaks out of the fat cells where it is stored. Estrogen will cause T4 to become bound up by blood proteins making less availible for conversion to T3 the active form our cells need.


check with your doc again

[2big4mysize]

Re: Pain/tingling in thyroid

how is the pain and tingling doing?

[Alexa]

Re: Pain/tingling in thyroid

Hello,

I should have replied sooner but I was too embarassed to say I can't remember what type of hypothyroidism I have! When I first got it I read all about it and used to understand it all but I kind of tried to forget about it since - not very sensible I know. I was going to call my sister and ask her - we all have it - me, my Mum, Dad, sister, aunt. The doctor never told me - at the time it was just called hypothyroidism on my medical exemption certificate.

I'll try to find out. The tingling is still coming and going (felt it about 6 times today). It doesn't feel bad - but like activity is occuring. I think I should ask for another blood test, but I had one just before I started and I'm not meant to have one for a year now. I think I ask in relation to weight loss and possible med changes and ask about the tingling again. I really hate talking to GPs about it though, they can be very disimissive of this disease I find if your levels look right to them.

In your earlier post you said Atkins could negatively affect T3. Do people sometimes need more medication? I usually rely on how I feel and I feel very energetic, but that could just be weight loss and associated euphoria, of course!

Thanks for asking.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Pain/tingling in thyroid

it can take weeks for changing levels to show physical symptoms.

weight loss will effect prodution of T$ and then the goitrogen foods if you ad a lot of them to your diet you will need your dose adjusted. call the doc about the neck tingling