Important

Anyone diagnosed Bipolar or Depressive  or BPD needs to have a thyroid level test and a thyroid antibody test done.  It is a simple blood test. It is important to ask for these before beginning any medications.

Why?

Imbalance of the thyroid and/or thyroid disease (autoimmune) can mimic mental illnesses.  

They can cause depression, mania, psychosis, and unstable mood.

Always rule out medical causes first.

Take Care.

[Jennifer375]

Thankyou for sharing this chigirl!

*Blessings*

[dogtherapy]

Do you happen to know which tests (TSH, T4, T3, free T4 by dialysis, etc)?  I had TSH which was normal.

[Jade59]

Thanks chigirl, as usual you are a wealth of imformation!

[chigirl29]

Thank you for your kind responses.
Get TSH , T4, Free T3 and thryoid antibody screen--give blood samples.

If TSH is normal, that is good, but there still may be some variations to check out. TSH is the thryoid stimulating hormone.  When it is down, your thyroid levels are up so it is not needed to stimulate the thyroid.

When TSH is up, you are not producing enough hormone and the (I think pituitary gland) is trying to get your thyroid to produce more hormones.

Antibodies--you can have a normal test because your body will fluctuate to normal, up, and down--which causes all the different moods--may seem like bipolar.

Get antibodies checked even though you have a normal TSH to see if you are having those types of reactions.