Hashi neck, spine, shoulder, joint pain EXPLAINED!

[TamraW]

If you are a Hashi, or suspect that you are a Hashi, then read this article. It explains why we have spine, shoulder, joint pain....

Mine sometimes occurs in the shoulder, back of neck (top of spine), chest, knees, fingers, toes, ankles...

http://www.thyroidtalk.com/Hashimotosjoint.html

:) Tamra

[LazyMoose]

I had bad muscle pain that got worse while on only T4 for ten years. The addition of T3 really helped and relieving knots using trigger point therapy speeded my recovery. 90% of pain is gone now.

Yes we forget that muscles are indeed organs also and they suffer recovery malfunction when we are hypo , or in my case still felt hypo after 10 years on T4.

So you still have a lot of muscle pain, are you on T4 only?

[TamraW]

Yes, I do get the muscle pains, but not as bad as some members of this forum. That's why I posted the article.

I am not on T3. I just switched to a GOOD endo, who will test my labs in two weeks to determine if I need T3. My new endo is a strong advocate of T3 treatment.

:) Tamra

[LazyMoose]

That was the first article I've seen that was directed toward thyroid induced muscle pain for all to see.Good post. What it really boils down to is lack of blood circulation and toxic build up in the muscle tissue for hypos.

I've always babbled about trigger point release, I'm sure some read and laughed at it. It differs from a 'feel good' massage which feels good initially but does not last. But how it works is by manually pushing the toxins out of knotted muscle tissue, then it restarts the natural blood flow cycle that instantly rejuvenates a tight , toxicified muscle and the healing process can now resume as it should have but could not. Another way to look at it: knotted and tight muscle from lack of blood flow being hypo essentially starves the muscle. I only do this occasionally now, it was several times a day for three months.

Near crippling muscle pain was what made me learn more about my thyroid as my GP was not even aware that Hoshi's contributed to body pain. I hurt 15 years until I couldn't take it anymore (5 were really bad)!

[TamraW]

Only within the past few days I've been experiencing these muscle pains in certain areas - my buttocks, thighs and arms. It feels like I've gotten shots in those areas because the pain is only in a small patch.

I have no idea why I'm getting these pains now. Before, it was mostly centralized to the calf muscles.

In one week, I go for blood tests and then the doc will add Cytomel if needed. I hope that will help. I have also considered massage or acupuncture.

:) Tamra

[LazyMoose]

"It feels like I've gotten shots in those areas because the pain is only in a small patch."

-Well then you have trigger points, very small tight knots. Also called myofascial release, if you ever want to try it. Its not a regular massage at all.

I have saved so much money by learning the technique on my own using my thumbs or a tennis or golf ball on the floor. Very hard to relive them in the calves, takes time.

We all hear good things about acupuncture, but I never tried it since its so expensive. Someday maybe.