PCOS Message Board - View Single Post - Not sure what to do with all these symptoms

brandalls · 07-20-2004, 07:49 PM

I've had symptoms of hypothyroidism for years and I keep mentioning them to doctors who do a TSH test and tell me that it's normal and not to worry about it.

If it's normal then why do I have these symtpoms? My hands and feet are like ice at bedtime and during the middle of the night they are like a furnace and sweating (doctors seem to think this is normal enough I guess because noone has thought much about it when I mention it). In the few weeks I've been charting my BBT, it's been between 96.3 and 96.8. I've been treated for chronic fatigue, depression, irritability, insomnia, weight gain, hair falling out, dry skin, muscle aches, weakness, constipation, very decreased libido, annovulation, and the most annoying of all - memory loss/concentration problems. I used to have an awesome memory. A mind like a steel trap as one prof used to say. I have a degree in Neuroscience for goodness sakes. Now I can't remember when my husband tells me we have plans for the evening. I know some of these can be attributed to PCOS, but are they all??

What's funny is that I've been asked by a few doc's if my thyroid has been tested because I had bulging eyes for a while and they thought I might have hyperthyroidism. But they did the TSH test and it came back normal so that was the end of it.

Should I just attribute all of this to PCOS and being overweight and just exercise more and eat better? Or should I keep asking to be tested?