Hello,
I was extremely ill 2 yrs ago and the Doctors ran lots and lots of tests but could not find what was wrong... I was in horrible pain in all my joints, swelling in the joints and my face looked like it was ready to explode!! I was being pushed around in a wheelchair... I then started losing my vision... It was kinda like looking thru oil in water... I was scared to death!!!
My husband and I were driving home and it was like a light bulb went off in my head... but I am sure it was my guardian angel!! THYROID!!! I turned to my husband and asked him what the thyroid does and he didn't have a clue... Once we got home I pulled it up on the web and there it was!!! I had EVERY symptom there was, well all but one...
I went into my Dr and said I want you to run a thyroid test on me... He said "what makes you think it's your thyroid??" I laid down a piece of paper with all of the symptoms I had been complaining about and he agreed to run the test...
The results came back and he was in shock!!! He said " You have absolutely NO THYROXINE in your body!! " I guess it was off the charts... I was actually in a myxedema coma!!!
Well, now that we know what's going on, I was sent to an Endocrinologist and he confirmed the severity of my thyroid...
NOW, I have been diagnosed with Severe Fibromyalgia... Is there a connection between the two of these? I don't know how long it had been that my thyroid quit working but as ill as I was, it didn't happen overnight... But, as I said, now I have been diagnosed with fibro and I am in horrible pain and horrible fatigue all the time... So many of the symptoms I have is so much like when I was so sick with hypothyroidism... I cannot help but think there is a link somehow, somewhere between the two of these...
Also, when I went to see the rheumatologist, he asked me WHY my thyroid quit? He said it doesn't just " Quit"... there has to be a reason...
I don't have this reason... this is really bothering me since he said that... I had a sonogram done and there was no cancer... but, WHY did my thyroid quit???
Thanks to all that may help me with my questions...
Sincerely
Mandy