Not Dx'ed , wondering about symptoms

funkadelica · 04-09-2008, 02:57 AM

I'm 30. I have 2 girls, 8 and 4 1/2. I was on Depo (I know, God help me!) for about 18 months after each baby. I stopped the Depo in (I think) May of '05 and got my period back sometime approx midway through '06. Somewhere in there, everything just went to compete crap.

I have always been somewhat apathetic and had social anxiety issues and was moderately overweight, but somehow during/after having two kids I ened up with HORRIBLE depression, loads of weight gain, and several other symptoms.

I know I have something going on with my thyroid, I do have a goiter and am seeing an Endo who says I'm hypothyroid (albeit subclinically, since my TSH is barely within range) but holy mother, do I have sympotms. IMO, the symptoms aren't justified by what I'm seeing on my thyroid labs.

Symptoms include:

Intolerance to cold
Cold extremities
Weight gain
Depression
Mood swings (total apathy to rage and back again)
Fatigue (to the point that I routinely sleep 10-12 hours a night)
Dry skin and hair
Keratosis pilaris (not sure what that's from or why I have it)
Irregular and heavy periods (which used to be light and easy and regular)
Swelling of feet & legs
Heart palpitations (a "missed beat" feeling when resting)
Hairs on my breasts, cheeks, lower abdomen and lower back (about 18-20 hairs in total, about half of those on my breasts and a 2-3 in each of the other places)
Brain fog/ADD - can't concentrate or remember squat (took 3 edits just to finish this list!)

Now, as I said, I know that some of these can be attributed to hypothyroid. But for real... my thyroid labs look the same now as they did after baby #1 and a few times since then, so I can see the link with the cold and the apathy and depression and dry skin, but I'm not seeing any reason to have my periods change so drastically since the thyroid seems to have held steady over the years.

I never really kept good track of my periods, but I knew my cycle was always about 30 days, and since coming off the Depo and resuming periods in 06, they have hurt like nothing I've ever felt (except LABOR!) and been easily 4x as heavy (I couldn't soak a pad in a day before, now I can do it in 3 hours) and I just checked to see how long it had been between my last two and realized it had been almost 2 months from the start of one until the next one.

Needless to say, I'm going to ask my Endo what's up with all that (thank goodness I figured this out before my appt!) but I just wanted to get a quick opinoin or two as to people's thoughts on hypothyroid + PCOS (or whatever you have an opinion on.

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Thanks all!

OliviaLeigh · 04-09-2008, 11:01 AM

I just wanted to say you have a really great grasp on all your symptoms and that will really help the dr in your diagnosis!

Good luck! Let us know how it goes!

funkadelica · 04-09-2008, 08:05 PM

So I just got back from the Endo... it was a brief visit (I was only there for a thyroid med check), but I told her about how wacky my periods are and that I don't see a reason why that would be caused my thyroid since it's stayed about the same for years with no trouble before, and she agreed that PCOS was a very real possibility, especially considering my weight and the Depo I was on.

So, no "official" diagnosis, but she did start me on Met and instructed me to get a pap and come back so she could get me on BCP. She was OK starting Met and forgoing labs at the moment because I don't have any insurance. She also upped my Levoxyl so hopefully I'll start feeling a bit better.

Carry on.

Eva37 · 04-10-2008, 07:20 AM

welcome to sc

all the best for the met. I find that as long as i avoid greasy/fatty/sugar foods as much as poss, and always eat with the met i am ok with it.
eva