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FelineFae -> Were-Hummingbird (6/16/2011 5:00:06 PM)
My mother is 5' tall in shoes. She has had a 1/3 of her lung removed from cancer, and her girly parts removed from Endometriosis. After the portion of lung was removed, her thyroid went beserk. She has hypO thyroidism. Her thyroid is underactive. She weighs 85 pounds and is still losing weight. How do you fix this ? How can she be made to gain weight ??? Normally a person gains weight when the thyroid is underactive, but mine family are just freaks of nature, it would seem.[>:][>:][>:] She also has the same crazy potassium trouble as i do, and her doctors can't figure out why either.

Hillwilliam -> RE: Were-Hummingbird (6/16/2011 7:32:33 PM)
Get her ass to a doctor pronto.

hlen5 -> RE: Were-Hummingbird (6/16/2011 7:34:09 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam Get her ass to a doctor pronto. Ditto.

angelikaJ -> RE: Were-Hummingbird (6/16/2011 7:37:21 PM)
The weightloss may not have anything to do with her thyroid. If her current batch of doctors can't sort out what is going on then get her to a new batch.

ChatteParfaitt -> RE: Were-Hummingbird (6/16/2011 7:57:07 PM)
Er my mother is 4' 6" these days and the size of a child. Despite the obvious, doctors prescribe adult sized medications. Which means she is getting twice the meds she needs for a person her size. The first thing I would do is seriously analyze meds. As part of that you should speak with all specialists. Go out of your way to get whatever help with these things you can. Not that you have to do what they say, but listen. Work to get meds stabilized, then go from there.You have a long, slow road ahead. Take it one step at a time. Best.

FelineFae -> RE: Were-Hummingbird (6/16/2011 8:13:07 PM)
Doctors she has. They poke at her with a stick and have recently put Area 51 on speed-dial.[&:] i will pass along the suggestions. Thank yous for them. i have every plan of makeing lots of fun of her when she turns 50, and she's still got a few years to get there.

LadyConstanze -> RE: Were-Hummingbird (6/17/2011 5:20:11 AM)
Are you sure she is hypo and not hyper? Hyper thyroidism can cause alarming weight loss, being hypo is more often the opposite, though in rare cases you can also lose weight, but females tend to be in almost all cases hypo (underfunctioning) and this happens a lot once puberty kicks in, after child birth or menopause - since she had her girly bits removed, yep, increases the chance for her. One thing that might actually help, have her copper and iron levels checked, a few years ago my thyroid went to an almost standstill and I lost amazing amounts of weight to the point where I was drastically underweight and close to 90lbs, the problem were the iron levels in my blood. Might be worth checking out, also a good endocrinologist or thyroid specialist would be an idea.

FelineFae -> RE: Were-Hummingbird (6/17/2011 5:36:12 AM)
ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze Are you sure she is hypo and not hyper? Hyper thyroidism can cause alarming weight loss, being hypo is more often the opposite, though in rare cases you can also lose weight, but females tend to be in almost all cases hypo (underfunctioning) and this happens a lot once puberty kicks in, after child birth or menopause - since she had her girly bits removed, yep, increases the chance for her. Her doctors are sure it is hypoactive. It's crazy because she has all the symptoms of hyperthyroidism. Yet this odd trait of getting the opposite symptom of something runs in the family. i get all the symptoms of anemia with my endo' but have never had endo-related anemia. i also get all the symptoms of low blood sugar, but test at almost diabetically high levels. One thing that might actually help, have her copper and iron levels checked, a few years ago my thyroid went to an almost standstill and I lost amazing amounts of weight to the point where I was drastically underweight and close to 90lbs, the problem were the iron levels in my blood. Might be worth checking out, also a good endocrinologist or thyroid specialist would be an idea. i'll pass this on to her. It wouldn't be terribly surprizing were this a factor, as we both have crazy prooblems with our vitamin and mineral levels.

calamitysandra -> RE: Were-Hummingbird (6/17/2011 6:22:42 AM)
The problem might just lay in the use of standard levels to gauge her thyroid function as well as your iron levels. Maybe her "normal" is much lower than standard normal, so the levels that register as hypo might just be hyper for her. The same goes for your iron levels. While you were not anaemic on the "normal" scale, you could very well have been on your personal one.

LadyConstanze -> RE: Were-Hummingbird (6/17/2011 8:01:41 AM)
A temperature check might be in order, quite simple but if you are hypo your temperature will be lower than average, most docs who don't know much about thyroid problems will explain it away, but specialists use it as a main indicator, especially to gauge your personal levels.

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