How can hashimoto's thyroiditis be treated?
Answers: well it depends on how old you are...
if you're young at heart, it can affect your growth
but if you've stopped growing then i guess it won't really matter much
mostly, they put you on some style of hormone controlling thing like levothyroid or syndthroid , at lowest, that's what they did for me.
i don't know. i can only speak from my experiences. ask your doctor why you aren't getting meds or if you do need them.
but i'm not sure why you get the impression so bad. it doesn't affect me at all.
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The "regular" treatment is treating symptoms, generous scale symptoms, so even if you did take the pills or doesn`t matter what, it would just mess up something else far more than you are messed up right now. Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease, which finances your body is attacking itself. The only way to stop that, is shifting your immune system, that means taking someone else. The only opening to do that is via bone marrow transplant, since you are in no means of access terminal, you will never get one. If your symptoms proceed to get worse however, your doctor will appropriate action. Have you seen an endocrinologist? If it's freshly your regular physician, s/he isn't usually trained to fully treat Hashimoto's. A "normal" TSH range in one lab may not be majority in another, and I've also found that even when I'm within this "normal" extent, I don't feel right -- I'm exhausted all of the time. My endocrinologist believes surrounded by keeping TSH levels on the lower end of the "normal" breadth, and I feel much better for it. In fact, I'm usually close to 1.0, whereas the sophisticated end of normal is 4.5. to 5.5 depending on the lab.
My personal story on this can be found at http://buzz.prevention.com/community/rai...
Good luck!.
Sounds approaching my mum... her tsh levels came put a bet on normal for years even while her showing symptoms. One of her big things, besides eventually working towards taking the replacement hormones, was to destroy soy from her diet. Apparently some of the hormone-like chemicals in soy are rather toxic to the thyroid. On top of that, she'd developed an allergy to legumes (peanuts, peas, beans, soy, etc) which help most of her other autoimmune symptoms.
Oh, and now she's having it surgically removed in the past it gets too big and needs to be kill off with chemotherapy (which, according to the surgeon, is specified for killing off other things contained by the body along with the thyroid, so its not the preferred method for elimating the thyroid)