severe symptoms

[Enyi]

I am a 35 y-o- male and for the past 7 weeks now I have been having strange symptoms like nausea, dizziness (extreme at times), headache behind the eye and sensitivity to light, joint/muscle aches and stiffness mostly in hands and feet but occassionally like a full body flu-type attack, weakness in wrists, cold feet and hands that feel like they are plunged in ice water when i am seating in the office, constant feeling of cold so that I just can't get warm, occasional hot flashes and chills, exhaustion and sleepiness all day but hard to stay asleep, and memory problems/disorientation like a brain "fog", flashes and shadows out of the corner of my eyes. in the past i have been treated of pneumonia on three occasions. when i went to my GP he said i had chest infection and was given antibiotics and afterwards he said my chest was clear. but my problem is that these symptoms are still there, i feel weak, dizzy, joint pains and weakness and fever. please help me.

[LazyMoose]

You my friend have very, very obvious symptoms of low thyroid!

And they did not test for a thyroid disorder? I have read on the thyroid forum here (thyroid disorders)  from people in the UK that medical testing is severely lacking in the UK on this subject.

What I copied from your post are normal symptoms of hypothyroid or Hashimoto hypothyroid (with thyroid antibodies) that any MD should know:

["nausea, dizziness (extreme at times),  joint/muscle aches and stiffness mostly in hands and feet but occassionally like a full body flu-type attack, weakness in wrists, cold feet and hands that feel like they are plunged in ice water when i am seating in the office, constant feeling of cold so that I just can't get warm, occasional hot flashes and chills, exhaustion and sleepiness all day but hard to stay asleep, and memory problems/disorientation like a brain "fog", flashes"}

thats 95% of what you wrote.

You need what is called free T4, and very important - free T3 tests. TSH is not as accurate but most likely all the Dr's in the UK ' health system' will test. Might need a private doc of some type over there. People have done it. There was some networking amongst thyroid patients in the UK on the thyroid disorder forum here on MH.

Living with Hashimoto for decades, I know the symptoms, had them all, most are manageable now with daily thyroid replacement hormone and herbs/supps/ vitamins that can help.

Dont wait on these tests. Visit the thyroid disorder group on Med Help for more info.

[Caryopteris]

Go back to the doctor and let him know about these continuing symptoms.  A lot of times they treat you for the most likely thing, but it is the patient's job to report it if symptoms don't respond as expected to treatment.  Then they have to check the less likely things.