HypoThyroid and depression

Posted by pianohands123 @pianohands123, May 13, 2020

Hello, I have hypothyroidism and have been on medication for 15 years. I have a very healthy life style but have a full time job and 2 immediate family members that are living with mental illness. In the past years, I have noticed my energy levels reduced, and bouts of anxiety and depression that are very familiar to symptoms that lead to my diagnosis. I have tried antidepressants in the past, bit want to know if TMS would be an option for me instead of oral medicine. I have insurance and access locally to this treatment.

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@mummy43

Well, I've never had shingles, or chicken pox. You mention stress, and I'm wondering about that. I've seen a dermatologist, and my regular doctor, both of them brush it off. This itching can be very irritating when you are sitting in church Sunday morning...LOL

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If you have never had chicken pox, the shingles shot, two of them is recommended. Shingles is a terrible disease to fight. I had a shingles shot and was told Medicare would pay, but they did not, and it is expensive. Then my eyes swelled up and were painful and I saw three different doctors in the emergency room and the office before I got better. They insisted it wasn't the shot, but I wonder.
I was not outside that week so it wasn't allergies. My optometrist said to never have the doctors treat eye problems again. He said it was all right to call him on the weekend. Shingles is a stress disease as well. My father-in-law lived with a witch of a wife and had it several times. I learned much observing other people's lives. No one is allowed to holler at me. Dorisena

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You are a real Trojan,Dorisenda! You have lived on through a lot and survived because of your common sense. I/we are very appreciative for your sharing that common sense. Keep posting!

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@susu2

You are a real Trojan,Dorisenda! You have lived on through a lot and survived because of your common sense. I/we are very appreciative for your sharing that common sense. Keep posting!

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Sorry. Dorisena. But maybe Dorisenda was a Freudian slip.🔅🔅🔆

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@mummy43

I'm not sure if I can ask this question in this group or not. I'm diabetic and I have stress. My forehead and eyebrows get intense itching. Nobody seems to know why. It's not all the time and sometimes worse than others. I just had a short bout of itching a few minutes ago, now its gone. Other times it lasts for a very long time.

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@mummy43 Has eczema been ruled out? My niece's daughter gets bad eczema and they use a skincare brand that seems to help more than anything else. It's a cosmetic brand that is sold in department stores, not in drug stores.
I forget the brand but if it is eczema and you or @dorisena are interested I will ask my sister.
JK

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@susu2

You are a real Trojan,Dorisenda! You have lived on through a lot and survived because of your common sense. I/we are very appreciative for your sharing that common sense. Keep posting!

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Don't flatter me too much, Susu, because I like to write and was on a support group on the web for five years. We shared everything, and it saved me lots of money on therapy because I listened to what other shrinks had to say, for free. I have some psychologists who rent space in my family owned office park, but my daughter won't let me talk to them! I doubt that I have "seen it all" yet, but I do learn from others because I had a couple of classes in logic and it taught me how to come to a conclusion, at times. My mother taught me good principles by example, but she never preached or told me what to do. She would tell me I couldn't do something, so I would do it and prove her wrong, when I sewed from scraps. I am blessed and believe that God protects me from harm. Just in case, I have a security system with cameras, a warning system if a wire burns as it did in the basement, and a Jitterbug which I call my security blanket. I am still learning because my granddaughters say I will live to 100. Eating my fresh vegetables is my best defense against life's trials.
I am an expert on that subject to the point that my family thinks I am becoming a real hippie. But I don't eat raw beets or rawr corn.
That's bad for you. I could go on and on. Dorisena

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@contentandwell

@mummy43 Has eczema been ruled out? My niece's daughter gets bad eczema and they use a skincare brand that seems to help more than anything else. It's a cosmetic brand that is sold in department stores, not in drug stores.
I forget the brand but if it is eczema and you or @dorisena are interested I will ask my sister.
JK

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Eczema has been ruled out. Fortunately it's only in my eyebrows and forehead, but thanks for the information. I would still like to know the name of the skincare she uses.

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@dorisena

I have fought ecxema all my life, since birth, but not much anymore since I have learned how to keep it gone. They still don't know what causes it and some creams don't help when the dermatologist recommends them. My palms itch but I see nothing. My face itches at times but I have always had dry skin.
I don't know if it has anything to do with diabetes because I had it at birth. Diet is associated with rashes in some cases. Look there. The last cream I had prescribed came from a new doctor who looked into the matter because it was my doctor's day off. The cream helped some. I try to go to the doctor on my doctor's day off now. I can't get an appointment anyway, so I avoid them. Read on the web. Sometimes the nutrition advice helps. Sometimes I use only plain olive oil on my skin. It made Cleopatra have better skin, I read. Avoid stress.
Actually, quit stress. I remember closing down my kitchen, leaving a note and going to my other little farm house overnight. I would get a phone call asking if I was coming home to cook dinner, and I replied "I don't know." That usually changed the attitude for a while and I had better cooperation. I finally learned to put my foot down in middle age and got some relief from the stress. Now I have none at all as a widow but it is still a lot of work. Dorisena

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This is loaks. Does it say that somewhere? Anyway have you thought about CBD creams? I have skin that makes me crazy. Crazy to the point of wearing my undies inside out so the seam doesn't touch me. I can write for hours. Anyway, I brought it up 100 times and nothing shows to a Dr. I saw a dermatologist two years ago and brought it upon to her. I had symptoms that her daughter had so she listened to me!! She called it sensory processing disorder. She told me to Google it. Out of the symptoms I had all but 4. She took her daughter across the US trying to figure it out.. when i get Medicare (common theme) I'm supposed to go see someone about dealing with it. My skin hurts at times and feels like it's on fire. Clothes are my enemy. We bought a house in S. Arizona so I don't have to wear too many clothes in the winter. It's a strange disease but I might be too.
But, since I've been dealing with the diabetes I think it's better. I use Vanicream which comes in a tub. It's nice on your skin and doesn't feel greasy. If you go to Mayo they sell it and they sell shampoo of that brand. Walmart has it too. Leslee

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@loaks

This is loaks. Does it say that somewhere? Anyway have you thought about CBD creams? I have skin that makes me crazy. Crazy to the point of wearing my undies inside out so the seam doesn't touch me. I can write for hours. Anyway, I brought it up 100 times and nothing shows to a Dr. I saw a dermatologist two years ago and brought it upon to her. I had symptoms that her daughter had so she listened to me!! She called it sensory processing disorder. She told me to Google it. Out of the symptoms I had all but 4. She took her daughter across the US trying to figure it out.. when i get Medicare (common theme) I'm supposed to go see someone about dealing with it. My skin hurts at times and feels like it's on fire. Clothes are my enemy. We bought a house in S. Arizona so I don't have to wear too many clothes in the winter. It's a strange disease but I might be too.
But, since I've been dealing with the diabetes I think it's better. I use Vanicream which comes in a tub. It's nice on your skin and doesn't feel greasy. If you go to Mayo they sell it and they sell shampoo of that brand. Walmart has it too. Leslee

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I have had so many bad results with pills, creams, treatments, that I automatically would reject something like CBD creams because if it comes from a plant, it is suspect to me. I read a book full of Oriental medicine and was completely overwhelmed, but the point I took from the book is that dosage varies in plants, so you need to be careful how much you try. I also studied food safety in college and know that there is no such thing as a completely safe product. The government has established safe levels for many items, and that is the best they can do at this time. Did you know that peanuts have a naturally occurring carcinogen in them that is tested for safety levels before the peanuts are made into peanut butter? I will eat plain peanut butter made in America because we have the best food safety rules in the world. But we don't find everything. I am eating from my garden already as I planted early and survived a freeze. I also understand desensitization and have improved my ability to pull weeds and not have a reaction, over the years, except for poison ivy, of course.
Doctors have not been that helpful in solving my skin and rash problems which I share with my siblings and children. They outgrew most of their rashes but are sensitive to bee stings. I avoid creams and medicines if I can. Olive oil is my remedy for dry skin along with a moisturizer every day. I put moisturizer on my dry feet, put on socks before bedtime. It is the little things that help the most. Dorisena

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@dorisena I so agree with you on the "little things" meaning the most. As I have gotten older (69) I now have allergies that I did not have as a child. Body chemistry can change with age (not the one for poison ivy). I eat as cleanly as I can and with shortages it has been a challenge. I once had a huge garden where everything was grown organically. I now live in a small apartment and not enough sun for even container growing of veggies. I buy from the organic section and since I only go to the grocery once every 2 weeks now I have started freezing my own veggies and fruit. Works for me. I miss playing in the dirt 🙁
I also have hypothyroidism and depression. I even became allergic to the synthetic and had a dickens of a time getting a doctor to believe me. My hyperthyroidism was fried with radioactive iodine at the age of 30. Doctors and their numbers!!!! They have a hard time understanding one size does not fit all.

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@parus

@dorisena I so agree with you on the "little things" meaning the most. As I have gotten older (69) I now have allergies that I did not have as a child. Body chemistry can change with age (not the one for poison ivy). I eat as cleanly as I can and with shortages it has been a challenge. I once had a huge garden where everything was grown organically. I now live in a small apartment and not enough sun for even container growing of veggies. I buy from the organic section and since I only go to the grocery once every 2 weeks now I have started freezing my own veggies and fruit. Works for me. I miss playing in the dirt 🙁
I also have hypothyroidism and depression. I even became allergic to the synthetic and had a dickens of a time getting a doctor to believe me. My hyperthyroidism was fried with radioactive iodine at the age of 30. Doctors and their numbers!!!! They have a hard time understanding one size does not fit all.

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What has helped my depression, which is gone from my life now, is eating lots of fresh vegetables, but I noticed years ago if I didn't eat many vegetables, I would be cranky. I have pretty much walked away from toxic people and situations and people who think conformity is good for everyone. Not for me! I am free to do projects that make me happy, and right now it is the garden since I am not going to church right now and doing any music there. Working hard makes me feel better, but I am limited to a couple of hours, with sitting down often.
I am surprised that this isolation life is not making me depressed because I can communicate on the computer, so you are a benefit to my life, and I appreciated the opportunity to share. I don't take pills for depression and do my own therapy as I reason out issues logically. I really do love people who are nice and honest with me and that means a lot. I fell very blessed because I have no debt or worries how to live so long as I can still grow some food. That is my life on the farm, which never made me rich, however.
Dorisena

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