Hi, Can I suggest you post this question on the thyroid forum too. I am like you with a premature menopause and thyroid problem, and I have found a great deal of information and help from the thyroid panel too, they really know their stuff.
How do I join this community? I wanted to read the full post from chigirl29 from Jan. 28, 2008 and wanted to inquire more about the estrogen thyroid relationship. I'm having symptoms and need more information. Thanks.
adrianna
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.webmd.com/news/20010608/estrogen-therapy-warning-for-women-with-thyroid-disease
Estrogen Therapy Warning for Women With Thyroid Disease
By Jon Hamilton
WebMD Medical NewsReviewed by Gary D. Vogin, MDJune 8, 2001 -- Women who are taking thyroid hormone either to supplement a gland that doesn't make enough or to suppress thyroid cancer will need their blood tested regularly if they decide to take estrogen either to combat menopause-related symptoms or as birth control.
A new study reported in the June 7 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine finds that while the situation isn't necessarily dangerous, to the surprise of some doctors, some of these women could end up with low levels of thyroid hormone in their blood, which can trigger several unwanted side effects.
According to Baha M. Arafah, MD, the study's author, the problem can arise when estrogen therapy interferes with thyroid medication and reduces the amount of available thyroid hormone, or thyroxine, in the blood.
"People who have been on thyroid medication for years would assume that whatever problems they are having [when starting estrogen therapy] have nothing to do with the thyroid medication," says Arafah, associate professor of medicine and endocrinology at University Hospitals of Cleveland. "But that's not necessarily going to be true."
Arafah studied 25 menopausal women who were using thyroid hormone either for hypothyroidism, a condition in which the thyroid doesn't make enough thyroxine, or to suppress the regrowth of a thyroid cancer
Estrogen suppresses the thyroid.
You should talk to your doctor about this and have your thyroid medication adjusted--just google estrogen effects on thyroid and show it to your doctor.
Good luck.