Why Does Hashimoto’s Cause Puffy Face?

Why people get puffiness of the face with Hashimoto's so puffiness of the face is it's not that common and and so
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it's a question that I don't get that often but I thought of being good to answer anyway just as a different aspect
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of Hashimoto's so so puffiness of the face is called mix edema my ex e de ma makes a team and it means that you're
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getting that you're getting a demon edema is puffiness because water is being absorbed into the skin you have
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sugars in your skin different chemical sugars in your skin and under certain circumstances those sugars will start to
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absorb water and so one of the one of the main reasons that it happens in the face is hypothyroidism and high most
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hypothyroidism we now know as Hashimoto's so basically slows everything down and
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water fluids not being not going not being processed properly through your system you have this excess sure in your
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in your system probably also because that's not getting processed properly because of the hypothyroidism and the
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sugar tracks the water excuse me and the water gets into the skin and the next thing you know you have all this
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puffiness the interesting thing would be a more common question would be why do I get
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mix edema of my shins in our examinations we always look at a person shins and ankles to see if they have to
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see if they're swelling around the shins and they have a demon now edema just for the record is if you push your
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finger in there like this and you go like that and this and this indentation that you made stays there it doesn't it
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doesn't elastically pop back that's a that's an evaluative procedure to determine whether the person hasn't
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makes a demon most of the time we see it on that on ankles were you there are other things that caused it on the
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ankles hypothyroid is almost one of the few things that caused it in the face and so you press in on that puffiness in
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your on your ankle and if it just stays there then you have mix edema and if you have a suspicion of thyroid there's a
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good chance that the thyroid is connected to that so it's just it's it's something it's it's not that common but
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it does happen that's what it is it is it's totally part of the whole Hashimoto is slowing down all the
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physiology slowing down the processing of your of your of your water slowing down the processing of your sugar
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slowing down processing of your limp which is obliquely really related to what I just got then saying and that's
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why you get it that's why you get mix edema with Hashimoto's you