All my symptoms from the start all add up to hypothyroid

[foreverlostmom]

I had gone for a couple years after my first child complaining of headaches and absent periods and excruitiating back pain.  Dr's all sent me on my way.  I visited a chiropractor and he tested my zinc and I didn't really understand at the time why he was so shocked that the zinc had no taste to me.  Then I went a few more years with the same complaints and more to finally have a doctor correlate my high cholesterol with hypothyroid after taking in articles proving my point.

I was reading about zinc and found a little correlating it to hypo
Zinc

An Italian study shows that supplementing the diet with zinc improves thyroid function. Many patients with hypothyroidism have low levels of zinc, and the study demonstrated that over 50 percent of patients given zinc supplementation experienced improved thyroid function which reduced the incidence of clinical hypothyroidism.

You can test your own zinc.  Buy some liquid zinc at the health food store if it has no taste you are extremely defficient but if it is extremely metallic you are good.

So if your haivng a hard time getting a diagnosis or treatment it may be a good idea to take in what ever information you can find relating all your symptoms.  

Just thought I would share my journey maybe it will help someone get the help they need.

[foreverlostmom]

When I first started getting treatment my tsh was at 4,xx and my free's in the lower range.  I had to prove my point with all my symptoms and the AACE lowering the tsh range.  I was put on synthroid didn't like it went to armour then naturthroid.

I do not have current labs since I have not had insurance for a few months.  But I know when I am good and not so good when I am on the right level of meds I have a monthly cycle and when I am not I don't.  I have a cycle for the past 4 months and that is huge for me I have not had a regular cycle for 7 years!  When I lowered my meds according to my blood work my periods stopped.  That's just my tell all symptom.  Instead of fixing my problem a while back they wanted to put me on fertility drugs.
Now that we are done having children my problem is fixed sometimes I say maybe I should just go hypo to avoid that time of the month ;)

[Barb135]

Do you have any thyroid labs you can post - results and reference ranges?  Have you been put on any thyroid med?

I've not read too much regarding a link between zinc and hypo, but when I had my micronutrient test a year ago, that was one of the levels that came back low, along with selenium, magnesium, vitamin D and some others.  The only reason my vitamin B12 was okay is because I was taking shots every 2 weeks, but even at that, my levels were less than 1/2 the range; I'm now on weekly shots.

I agree that it's often necessary to take printed material to your doctor in order to get a diagnosis of your problems.  Doctors seem to be in such a hurry to herd us through so they can get to the next patient, they often don't even really LOOK at our labs; they see that they are "in range" and let it go at that........ for many of us, that's not good enough.