Dr. Shukla - You are helping all your readers with this valuable information. Thank you. Before my diagnosis with hypothyroidism, my cholesterol was very high, my blood pressure and heart rate were very low. My doctor suggested I take cholesterol lowering medication. Then when I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and properly treated all these heart related issues went away without any need for cholesterol meds. I think often about how many hypothyroid sufferers are out there undiagnosed and taking cholesterol and/or blood pressure meds. I found out the hard way that not all doctors understand this disease as you do. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism following the birth of my first son in 2006 and experienced many of the symptoms you have listed. I trusted my doctors completely assuming they knew everything there was to know about this disease, especially when I became pregnant again in late 2008. How wrong I was! Under their care my TSH, the gold standard for measuring thyroid function, rose high above the safe range for pregnancy and I miscarried. I vowed to myself that I would research everything there was to know about hypothyroidism and warn other women. I fulfilled my vow and launched my blog Hypothyroidmom.com in memory of the baby I lost to hypothyroidism.
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Dr. Shukla - You are helping all your readers with this valuable information. Thank you. Before my diagnosis with hypothyroidism, my cholesterol was very high, my blood pressure and heart rate were very low. My doctor suggested I take cholesterol lowering medication. Then when I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and properly treated all these heart related issues went away without any need for cholesterol meds. I think often about how many hypothyroid sufferers are out there undiagnosed and taking cholesterol and/or blood pressure meds. I found out the hard way that not all doctors understand this disease as you do. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism following the birth of my first son in 2006 and experienced many of the symptoms you have listed. I trusted my doctors completely assuming they knew everything there was to know about this disease, especially when I became pregnant again in late 2008. How wrong I was! Under their care my TSH, the gold standard for measuring thyroid function, rose high above the safe range for pregnancy and I miscarried. I vowed to myself that I would research everything there was to know about hypothyroidism and warn other women. I fulfilled my vow and launched my blog Hypothyroidmom.com in memory of the baby I lost to hypothyroidism.
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