Is there a difference in symptoms between "Hashi's" and "total Thyroidectomy"

[blsdnsvd]

I've read many posts on this site and I am wondering what are the differences between a person having a thyroid condition "Hashi's" and a person whose had a "Total Thyroidectomy"??

Although both will have extreme hypo symptoms until regulated, are they equal???

[blsdnsvd]

Thanks for clearing that up for me because i've always wondered one the difference was besides the physical presence of a thyroid....

To Iris986

I understand the meaning of both (I had a TT in dec)...jus wanted to know the difference in symptoms..Thanks for your response...

[iris986]

A total thyroidectomy is where they actually take the thyroid out during surgery.

Hashimotos is a disease of the thyroid.

[goolarra]

I agree with redhead.  Once Hashi's effectively "kills" your thyroid, I image they become much more equal.  However, with Hashi's, the process of the thyroid dying can take years or even decades (or it can go like gangbusters).  During that time, you are constantly chasing a moving target as your thyroid becomes less and less able to produce hormones, and you have to take more and more meds as replacement.  Also, the downhill progression of the disease tends not to be a nice, straight sloping line, but to zigzag up and down, sometimes producing a little more hormone, then a little less, etc.  I'm hoping my thyroid is "dead" at this point since I've been on a stable dose for 18 months or so now.  Hashi's really gets a lot easier to deal with once the thyroid has completely given up the ghost.

[redheadaussie]

Often people with Hashimoto's will get flare ups of enlarged thyroid, pain in throat area and also hypo symptoms. These tend to fluctuate in varying degrees depending on the person and the severity of the Hashi's.
A TT you can have hypo symptoms if the dose is insufficient or the patient is not taking it correctly. ie, having food with it, taking other meds at or near same time.
  No they are not equal even though very similar.