Reged: 05/22/03
Posts: 3206
Loc: USA, Southern California
Ruchie, It would be impossible to tell what your problems are....and foolish for anyone of us here to even try. I'm no doctor, and even then, he/she will have to have the blood work results to determine whether you have a thyroid problem….
Should you be scared? No. Should you be worried? Why? It only makes your IBS flare up. You are mighty young for a thyroid problem to hit you just now, even with it running in your family, but nothing is impossible.
Should you get properly tested? Yes…..but please, let an M.D. do it and get a reliable lab. I'm ALL for alt. medicine but only if East meets West, and vise versa……………there's room for both and both have their place. I'd hate to have a holistic doc show up on the scene where I was in a serious auto accident, how about you? Likewise I'd hate to have to go only the holistic approach to treatment of my thyroid.
As to your over eating.....I think it's mostly your frustration with your health and new home, etc…..so you compensate by overeating. I'm afraid if you think that once you are diagnosed and possibly put on medication that then you'll become stick thin again----you're mistaken… Thyroid medication doesn't always correct an overeating problem or make the hunger cravings away. What is DOES do is make your metabolism more efficient, but not to the levels all think. For that to happen you'd have to exercise, exercise, exercise.
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