Hi!
Kinda long, so...
I'm a 25 yr old female previously diagnosed around age 18 as hypo. Went into the military and had to hide my disorder, but continued to take Synthroid- until I went off it for a few months, and tested normal at 2.2. I thought at the time I was off the medication long enough that it would test correctly- plus the medication wasn't helping the way it should have. This was all around two years ago.
I'm not at 6.12, low-grade hypo. I've always been tired most the time and unmotivated most my teen/adult life, from which espresso is my savior. Recently, however, I've become a bit more fatigued, as well as, in the past three months, experienced: tension headaches (now gone), increased fatigue, slightly decreased appetite, joint and muscle aches and pains mainly upper body, stiff neck and neck pain, and insomnia/probs waking up; the past two weeks/few days: much increased 'confusion', memory problems, and loss of words (which has been bad for years), tender glands on my throat, more fatigue, and fever-like-symptoms (without an actual fever).
I'm interested in the connection also between mono, CFS, and hypothyroidism. I've been diagnosed with mononucleosis three times- blood tests for each- first when I was a young teen and most recently a year and a half ago. All were severe enough to warrent time off work/school and one hospitalization.
If anyone has any information for me, or a similar story (I'm still reading through everyone else's posts!), sharing would be much appreciated!
I know I'm low grade hypo, but I'm wondering why my symptoms are like this!
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