Do I have a thyroid problem?

[ampi1984]

Hello community,

So for the past 2 months I have been feeling pretty crappy. I had nausea every morning for a month, and now it comes and goes, I also have headaches, feel extremely tired all the time. My blood tests showed vitamin D deficiency and my thyroid TSH level showed normal. I have read that vitamin D deficiency is related to hypothyroidism, does this sound like a thyroid problem? It runs in my family too. Any comments will be greatly appreciated!

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[ampi1984]

Thanks for the feedback! ;) I am gonna go ahead and follow your advice!

[goolarra]

Vitamin D deficiency and thyroid problems can have similar symptoms.  Has your doctor recommended supplementing D?  TSH is a pituitary hormone and should not be used alone to diagnose and treat thyroid problems.  If you want a better understanding of what your thyroid is doing, you should ask your doctor to order FREE T3 and FREE T4 tests.  These are the actual thyroid hormones and will give you a much better profile of your thyroid function.  Make sure that when they order these, they order free T3 and free T4, not total T3 and total T4.  

In addition, you might request thyroid antibody testing to see if you have autoimmune thyroid disease, the most prevalent cause of hypo in the developed world.  TPOab (thyroid peroxidase antibodies) and TGab (thyroglobulin antibodies) should both be run, since some of us with Hashi's have one, some the other and some both.  Hashi's runs in families.