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muscle aches and twitching
Hi,
I am experiencing lots of muscle pain and muscle twitching all over/specially my legs. Is anyone else experiencing this with hashimoto?
Hi, Patue--
I am sorry to have been very slow in replying. I do not have internet access at home, so I was away from the forum all weekend.
It sounds as if your symptoms and mine are a LOT alike. Almost like a reflex, I always encourage anyone who is concerned about a symptom or symptoms to have a medical assessment. Because I am a layperson, I would be a fool to reassure you that you do not have a neurological disease.
All the same, I have to tell you that when my gynecologist looked at a list of my symptoms and became a little concerned about whether I might have MS, it caused me to do some reading about the symptoms of MS. In no time flat, I was thoroughly frightened, because so much of what I was reading was just like what I was experiencing. As I began the process of having my symptoms assessed, I was well braced for hearing terrible news. What a relief to be told that neurologically, I seemed to be in glowingly good health.
At the time, it was a gynecologist who first heard about the symptoms because I had seen a clear-cut relation between my menstrual cycles and the symptoms' severity. Now that I have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, I wonder how much of my "neurological" weirdness has been related to the perimenopause and menopausal stages of life and how much to a thyroid gland that was slowly but steadily failing. The two kinds of hormones (reproductive and thyroid) are so intimately linked that it may never be possible to be sure of which has been which for me.
In regard to what I do about the symptoms: the twitching has not been with me steadily throughout the years. When I have a spell of it, I have not been able to do anything about it but ignore it. During one of the times when my calves were cramping at night, I could prevent the cramping if I was diligent about exercising aerobically several times a week. Stretching my calf muscles before bedtime also seemed to help. Then I went through a spell of a few months' time when nothing seemed to help. It will be interesting to me to see if muscle cramping goes away once my hypothyroidism is under control (I am still early in the process of adjusting to medication).
I hope that your muscle problems go away, too, as your Hashimoto's is treated. Am I safe in assuming that you are being treated? It is my impression that even if your numbers are in range, having a high level of antibodies is a reason to be given thyroid medication. I do not know if a physician has seen a connection between your miscarriages and having Hashimoto's, but I wonder if there is one.
Whatever the specifics of your situation, I DO care about you, and I am glad if that came through in my comments. You are entirely welcome, of course! I am so sorry that you have had a rough time of it medically for quite a long stretch of time. Do you have a good endocrinologist and/or gynecologist? It sounds as if what you need, first and foremost, is one or more physicians you can work with smoothly. Someone ought to be working with you to help you get your very reasonable wish: a life and a family, and someone certainly should refer you to a specialist for an assessment of your scary symptoms. It is an ongoing strain to have scary stuff going on; how well I remember. If you had that particular strain taken away, it would improve your situation a lot, I am sure.
Wishing you the best,
Jenny
I am sorry to have been very slow in replying. I do not have internet access at home, so I was away from the forum all weekend.
It sounds as if your symptoms and mine are a LOT alike. Almost like a reflex, I always encourage anyone who is concerned about a symptom or symptoms to have a medical assessment. Because I am a layperson, I would be a fool to reassure you that you do not have a neurological disease.
All the same, I have to tell you that when my gynecologist looked at a list of my symptoms and became a little concerned about whether I might have MS, it caused me to do some reading about the symptoms of MS. In no time flat, I was thoroughly frightened, because so much of what I was reading was just like what I was experiencing. As I began the process of having my symptoms assessed, I was well braced for hearing terrible news. What a relief to be told that neurologically, I seemed to be in glowingly good health.
At the time, it was a gynecologist who first heard about the symptoms because I had seen a clear-cut relation between my menstrual cycles and the symptoms' severity. Now that I have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, I wonder how much of my "neurological" weirdness has been related to the perimenopause and menopausal stages of life and how much to a thyroid gland that was slowly but steadily failing. The two kinds of hormones (reproductive and thyroid) are so intimately linked that it may never be possible to be sure of which has been which for me.
In regard to what I do about the symptoms: the twitching has not been with me steadily throughout the years. When I have a spell of it, I have not been able to do anything about it but ignore it. During one of the times when my calves were cramping at night, I could prevent the cramping if I was diligent about exercising aerobically several times a week. Stretching my calf muscles before bedtime also seemed to help. Then I went through a spell of a few months' time when nothing seemed to help. It will be interesting to me to see if muscle cramping goes away once my hypothyroidism is under control (I am still early in the process of adjusting to medication).
I hope that your muscle problems go away, too, as your Hashimoto's is treated. Am I safe in assuming that you are being treated? It is my impression that even if your numbers are in range, having a high level of antibodies is a reason to be given thyroid medication. I do not know if a physician has seen a connection between your miscarriages and having Hashimoto's, but I wonder if there is one.
Whatever the specifics of your situation, I DO care about you, and I am glad if that came through in my comments. You are entirely welcome, of course! I am so sorry that you have had a rough time of it medically for quite a long stretch of time. Do you have a good endocrinologist and/or gynecologist? It sounds as if what you need, first and foremost, is one or more physicians you can work with smoothly. Someone ought to be working with you to help you get your very reasonable wish: a life and a family, and someone certainly should refer you to a specialist for an assessment of your scary symptoms. It is an ongoing strain to have scary stuff going on; how well I remember. If you had that particular strain taken away, it would improve your situation a lot, I am sure.
Wishing you the best,
Jenny
No, I don't believe so. I am using Ivory. If I remember right, the soap should be replaced once a year. It's just about time for me to replace mine.
Remember, it's a wrapped bar soap.
GL
Remember, it's a wrapped bar soap.
GL
P.S. I still take all my vitamins and minerals.
Not a multi!
All separate, except Bs which I take a B-50 complex, plus some extra Bs.
GL
Not a multi!
All separate, except Bs which I take a B-50 complex, plus some extra Bs.
GL
The H if I know!
All I know is that it works.
I was leery at first too.
But I didn't have anything to lose in trying and
everything to gain by alleviated
Charley horses/cramps/muscle pain.
All I know is that it works.
I was leery at first too.
But I didn't have anything to lose in trying and
everything to gain by alleviated
Charley horses/cramps/muscle pain.
Wait ... I am totally confused on that one .. what does the soap have in it?
All great info on the muscle cramps .. thanks.
C~
All great info on the muscle cramps .. thanks.
C~
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