Hashimoto’s vs Hypothyroid

Topic today is Hashimoto's versus hypothyroidism so Hashimoto's has a lot of different names to it one of them is
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Hashimoto's hypothyroid disease and so pure hypothyroidism I'm not even sure if it actually exists because I never see
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it the people who come in here have washing my toes they've already been their doctor the
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doctors told them that they have hypothyroid but they have all these symptoms they're taking the medication
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it's not working because the doctor hasn't checked to see that they have Hashimoto's which is technically
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primarily an autoimmune problem first and a thyroid problem a second and so if you actually have a pure hypothyroid if
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it exists then your thyroid is slowed down question is why and usually the answer is because person's Hashimoto's
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but if you actually had a pure hypothyroid problem you would you would take the medication your your TSH would
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be too high you take the medication th H would come in the range the Irate stimulating hormone come and range you'd
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feel like a million box you start losing weight your hair to get better and all that type of stuff it's it's arguable
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that that may never even be the case here's the deal on Hashimoto's okay there's there's they're silent
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Hashimoto's silent Hashimoto's means that you're getting an immune attack on your thyroid but you don't even know it
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so here's the thyroid here's the immune system the immune systems hitting the thyroid and a thyroid is like maybe not
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doing anything at all maybe you don't even have any symptoms whatsoever this is how a lot of Hashimoto's starts out
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and you can have that for years you know and and you're not going to know it because you're not getting any symptoms
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you're not gonna go to the doctor you're not going to look for it nobody's going to look to find it then there's
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something called reactive hypo right hypoglycemia reactive Hashimoto's and this is something that I would say this
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is 50% or more what comes in here okay so the person has the the the attack so the attacks been going on for years
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it's been silent but all of the sudden my hair starts falling out I start putting a lot away I start getting tired
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I start getting I start getting ankles that are swollen maybe a little constipation I'm skin
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starts drying out some combination out go to the doctor and they test you and everything's
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normal everything's normal but you have all these symptoms so you get maybe gone for
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another six months you get tested normal maybe on for another six months you and maybe a year and a half later there's
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enough damage to this thyroid that you actually get a test and they say oh your TSH is off and we'll give you this
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thyroid hormone basically they'll give you the thyroid hormone maybe you feel better maybe it for a
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little while we call it the hormone honeymoon where you you fill up this guy so that you're making an up tyroid
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hormone but then you crash or maybe you don't feel better or maybe they give you the thyroid and it blows off your head
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you get anxiety and heart palpitations because this is still the problem but now you are actually being diagnosed
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with a hypothyroid because either they ran antibodies which are the things that are attacking to see if you have
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Hashimoto's and maybe the antibodies were low that day maybe they were using a much wider range we have a lot of
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people who are written the range we use the range Mayo Clinic uses we have a we have a big hospital here in town called
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renown all use 0 to 9 there are people are still using 0 to 32 people between 9 and 32 are being told that they're
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normal they're not they usually have Hashimoto's but at this point because nobody's ran it or because the numbers
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say they're normal they're still being they're being told they have hypothyroid this is the main difference between
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Hashimoto's and hypothyroid very that meh I think I think the Mayo Clinic says that 85 to 95% of hypothyroidism is
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actually Hashimoto's I can't imagine that there's five percent that's not or something I can't maybe there is I don't
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know if there is I don't see it so and then there's and then finally maybe they run the antibodies and they
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go oh you actually have Hashimoto's so this is why they call it hypothyroid Hashimoto's hypothyroid disease and then
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eventually you know you ventually you have all the symptoms and they test you and you have it and that's called active
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washing clothes that's really my take on hypothyroidism versus Hashimoto's in my world you come in here and you tell me
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you're hypothyroid you are Hashimoto's until an innocent eye if I have seen
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hypothyroid in here I mean and I mean I we have treated I don't know I mean it was so much Hashimoto's it's like crazy
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and maybe once or twice I've had to go maybe this person actually has a real hypothyroid which is really easy we just
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give them some supplements or tell them send them back that or the third doctor and say adjuster you know adjust the
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thyroid medication so that's really it that's really that what we see and I think you're gonna find this to be true
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that's really what hypothyroid is it's usually an undiagnosed Hashimoto's it's usually Hashimoto's that hasn't
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progressed that far it's usually Hashimoto's where there's not that much damage to the tissue yet and it's just
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and or or it can be a or it can be a Hashimoto's that just hasn't been diagnosed yet because they haven't ran
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the antibodies or they use lab ranges that are still in that particular lab different labs use different lab ranges
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that their lab just still hasn't come down to that zero to nine and so you're a twelve and they tell you oh you're
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fine you know they're you don't have it you know so then so that's so that's is one of the things I wanted you to know
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that is the main thing I wanted to get to you I would love for people to understand that most of you have been
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told you have I both I would do not that's the difference between Hashimoto's and and and hypothyroid
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probably poor diagnosis or hasn't expressed itself yet the way that it should so that's so that's the the