Who here has a thyroid condition?

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How in the world can a medic say that someone is too young to be checked for hypothyroidism!? I know a few that had it at a young age and it can be diagnosed in youth and younger children, just as mentioned in the previous posts.

Does that mean that one may be too old to be diagnosed with hyperthyroidism? No way, because it can show up at any time of a person's life. But it is common when diagnosed on younger adults.

So far it has been a couple weeks since I got tested and no results yet.

Where I live they do bloodwork, testing TSH and Free T4. Though when charting my cycles for trying to conceive, I often ended on the lower ranges for temp but even then that's not fully reliable. And as far as needles being scary for little ones, it's pretty quick, plus they can use EMLA (numbing local anaesthetic cream) on the skin where they do the needle so the child doesn't feel it if necessary. I know this due to having two children that have gone through bloodwork a few times in a short couple of years. My oldest son who is HFA has had 10+ tubes drawn at once before. As well as a sweat test for CF and other tests to rule out other genetic/metabolic disorders. Plus basal temperature is only really really reliable first thing in the morning when you wake and before you talk or move because once you do either, your body temp rises making it inaccurate the latter you wait to do it.

I got my 6 wk recheck on my levels on Monday and see Dr. on Wednesday for my next appt. She should have the results of that back today and have them available if I need redosing of Synthroid tomorrow. Hoping maybe she'll tell me what the results of the iron, blood glucose and celiac testing are too.

i've had a thryoid condition since i was infant..i've taken synthroid/levo since then, but it still delayed my development growing up..i think it affected me much worse than AS has, and now, i can't seem to have nothing but bad feelings towards those that have treated me bad or alienated me throughout my life..i probably would've been better off dying as a baby then going through this my whole life..

Oh joy, well dr. is bumping up my dosage for Synthroid from 50mcg to 75mcg hopefully this helps.

Well I had results that showed an imbalance of t4 and TSH levels. T4 is fine, but the TSH levels are too high. About 5x higher than the upper normal.

I then learned a few things about the supplements.

Better to take the pill an hour before eating or else absorbtion will be ruined and the pill will be released from the body. Some of the hormone goes in but not all of it.

Don't forget taking the pill too many times, or else the pituatary gland will not react to the intake of t4 even though the re is plenty of the t4 in the blood. This causes the TSH levels to become higher though not needed, in order to stimulate a thyroid gland that has been pretty much depleted from radioactive treatment.

So I need to take the pill much more evenly and correctly from now on.

I haven't been diagnosed, but my dad has a thyroid problem and will never come off his medication that he takes for it. However, I am just like my dad, so I constantly fear that a thyroid problem will develop later on down the line.