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Muscle, tendon and joint pain from thyroid, whats your experience?
Not a question. Share your experiences for others. You might learn something. Many thyroid 'newbies' are unaware (docs too) of how thyroid hormones effect body tissue. Some get this as a severe symptom, some almost never. Back, feet, legs, shoulder, wrists (carpel tunnel) , all. A reminder that symptoms vary with autoimmune.
I have self learned a lot on this subject - I had too. And learned acupressure muscle release (trigger point therapy is another name) from books and PT's, that has saved me thousands of dollars, and relived pain, (this is different from acupuncture). I since learned I needed T3, as many do with continuing pain on a T4 only med. Still have some, its a long healing process (years).
I recently spoke to very experienced physical therapist / massage therapist on this subject as she has experience working with Fibro patients and noted some mentioned they had 'wacked' thyroids. She was interested in how thyroid hormones work, symptoms , and, well, now she knows some of what I know, which is better than not knowing.
Many do not realize that what they think is joint pain may not be caused from within the joint, unless there is physical joint damage or Rheumatoid. Referred pain simply means pain felt in a different area from its true origin. Knee, ankle and shoulder pain is usually from tight muscles (nearby or far) pulling on a joint, so that's where you feel it. Loosening the muscle (if it wont stretch) via acupressure or trigger point release can relieve joint and muscle pain.
What brings this up was a recent experience of "burning feet" (new to me and very wierd) from FT4 under the range (totally off) which resulted in a 58 tsh. Another member mentioned burning feet to me with low thyroid levels. At tsh of 24 now, my feet feel better.
So this thread is about others thyoid body pain experience and relieving it, if they have anything to share for others to learn. If you had or still have thyroid body pain, you know how miserable it can be. (Dont get alarmed of my tsh, that is being worked on slowly - another subject altogether).
I have self learned a lot on this subject - I had too. And learned acupressure muscle release (trigger point therapy is another name) from books and PT's, that has saved me thousands of dollars, and relived pain, (this is different from acupuncture). I since learned I needed T3, as many do with continuing pain on a T4 only med. Still have some, its a long healing process (years).
I recently spoke to very experienced physical therapist / massage therapist on this subject as she has experience working with Fibro patients and noted some mentioned they had 'wacked' thyroids. She was interested in how thyroid hormones work, symptoms , and, well, now she knows some of what I know, which is better than not knowing.
Many do not realize that what they think is joint pain may not be caused from within the joint, unless there is physical joint damage or Rheumatoid. Referred pain simply means pain felt in a different area from its true origin. Knee, ankle and shoulder pain is usually from tight muscles (nearby or far) pulling on a joint, so that's where you feel it. Loosening the muscle (if it wont stretch) via acupressure or trigger point release can relieve joint and muscle pain.
What brings this up was a recent experience of "burning feet" (new to me and very wierd) from FT4 under the range (totally off) which resulted in a 58 tsh. Another member mentioned burning feet to me with low thyroid levels. At tsh of 24 now, my feet feel better.
So this thread is about others thyoid body pain experience and relieving it, if they have anything to share for others to learn. If you had or still have thyroid body pain, you know how miserable it can be. (Dont get alarmed of my tsh, that is being worked on slowly - another subject altogether).
I have tried a slight increase in my T3 and T4, not to hyper range of course, but did not notice a change in my muscles. My doc wanted me to reduce both again as she said "I had plenty of thyroid hormone circulating in my body".
LazyMoose, have you tried using un-denatured whey protein? I read about it on a different site, guy claims it helps by getting the proper form of cystein into cells. I haven't tried it yet, just read it.
I just started using a book I found called "Healing Back Pain Naturally" that provides a series of exercises and also discusses the emotional aspects. I picked it up for a buck at a dollar store, but that was a while back. Too soon to say if it will help, but the exercises did relieve my lower back stiffness.
I have experienced increasing muscle issues since I had my thyroid removed. Endocrinologists completely unaware of any such thing. Increasing fascial adhesions, causing pain and bones to go 'out' of place, muscle 'seizing', difficulty stretching out and relaxing muscles, all leading to leg and nerve pain. Recently read an idea to use a rolling pin on my legs to break up adhesions. Bought a used one and I think it'll really help! They also suggested using undenatured whey protein to help get cystein into all the cells, which is supp. to help. I am looking into that, along with comparing taking sulphur with undenatured whey. I have spent a lot of money at the chiropractor and massage therapists, otherwise I don't function too well.
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This is a very old thread and Kimmydee2 hasn't posted in several years... If you post your own information, maybe we can help you get your doctor's attention to help you get treatment.
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