What Causes Swings Between Hypo and Hyperthyroid Symptoms?

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What causes the swings between hyper and hypothyroid symptoms we have a long presentation online
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called the no bs series on hashimoto’s you should watch that that would probably be the best answer
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but the semi-short answer is is so many things okay so there’s 40 different triggers so
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if you have so here it is you have autoimmune thyroid disease all right and there’s various stages to it there’s
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a relatively stable hashimoto’s patient where they just don’t have a lot of thyroid
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symptoms their antibodies aren’t very reactive and
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they don’t go up and down like that then you get into the reactive it’s actually called the reactive hypo
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reactive hashimoto’s patient and when you get into that patient that’s the patient that we’re talking
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about right now that goes up and down okay the um you’ll go up and down based on
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not not particularly the antibodies they they can sometimes be a good check and you you check antibodies to
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determine if you have hashimoto’s and i’ve already done videos that say the number is not the issue i can have
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people who have hashimoto’s thyroid peroxidase enzymes which is the enzyme you measure
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of 50 and they’ll be up and down and all over the place
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and hypo hyper and then i can have somebody comes in and have hashimoto’s uh 20 000 and enter
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and they’re in the and they’re stable to a to a large degree so that’s that’s
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another whole subject but the point is is it that’s not the measure of of going up
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and down so it’s just based on your triggers really
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it’s based on how unstable your thyroid is so what makes it unstable
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what makes it unstable is we all have different microbiomes we all have different immune systems we have
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different stress responses and we all have different tissue resiliency
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whose tissues have proper sugar and proper blood sugar and proper oxygen whose inflammation inflammatory
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processes are low all of these play into how susceptible a patient is to getting an immune response let’s use
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gluten as an example because gluten is um the number one trigger probably for for autoimmune thyroid disease
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iodine could be another one uh taking iodine maybe you’re taking an iodine multivitamin it has iodine in in for
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autoimmune thyroid disease that’s one of the top that’s one of the top triggers for it so
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you may be going along and everything’s fine and and um
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and and then and then you expose yourself to one of these and then the immune system flares
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up to make a complex immune problem simple the immune system flares up inflammation
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inflammation causes your antibodies to flare up it hits your thyroid and depending on the condition of your
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thyroid you can get hyperthyroid symptoms anxiety panic attacks you can get heart
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palpitations inward tremors night sweats all those types of things
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then the attack is going to eventually stop now gluten exposure might bother you for
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three days or three weeks it just depends on your sensitivity and your physiology just like uh just like
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kovid right now you know the people who have diabetes the people are overweight the people who are already immune
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suppressed by drugs and stuff they’re going to be more susceptible to the code than the
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person’s not same thing same thing with your thyroid certain people are going to be more
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susceptible now as time goes on and maybe you don’t know what all the triggers are for you as those triggers
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keep beating up your thyroid not only are you going to intermittently get the hyper symptoms but when they calm down
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your your thyroid itself is going to be going into hypo slowly going into hypothyroid
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and frankly it probably has been in hypothyroid for a while already because because your thyroid can get beat up for
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like seven years before you start getting the hashimoto’s symptoms
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and so you you got this hypothyroid and you’re tired and you’re fatigued and your hair is falling out and your bowel
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you got constipation and you got beam around your ankles and dry skin and so on and so forth and then all of a sudden
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you start so you’re in hypo state it’s called hashimoto’s hypothyroidism so you’re in a hypothyroid state because
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your thyroid has been getting beaten up and as it gets beat up and it starts losing more tissue
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you start you start having less function to be able to put out thyroid hormone you start getting hypothyroid symptoms
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and then enter the hyperthyroid symptoms at some point you start getting the reactions you
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start get to the to each trigger and so it really is a matter of you are originally in a hypothyroid
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state and eventually you started to become hyperthyroid and then the intermittency is
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is um i i’ve been exposed to a trigger maybe was there stress i cannot tell you
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the number of people i’ve had come in here who um who have hypothyroid and then and don’t know they have
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hashimoto’s and they’ve only been diagnosed with a hypothyroid and here’s part of their the first part of their
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history and and one day i just was i just got i just got really really really really my
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heart started pounding it started beating out of my chest i ended up in the hospital they they asked me
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um you know what i did and i didn’t do anything and and and they checked me and my heart
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was fine and they told me um that was stress and our electrolytes and here drink some
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gatorade and i’ll see you later straw and and and so that’s the development of somebody who
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has hashima who’s in hypothyroid they were under stress stress is one of the triggers that’ll that’ll flare it up
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maybe they went out and ate a pizza and a beer that night because they don’t know they have hashimoto’s and so they
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so there’s gluten all over beers and pizzas and maybe that was enough between the stress to set off
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a thyroid attack your heart has ten times more receptor sites for
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for thyroid hormones than any other thing in the body any other organ in the body and
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now you’re going like this so they went from hypo to hyper back to hypo other things that you should be aware of
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that can cause it would be um like a viral infection can cause it so if you’re like
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hypothyroid and and and you get maybe maybe a maybe a maybe a covalent okay i’ve had a number of people who’ve
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come in here who have gotten triggered by covet because their hashimoto’s triggered by covet but it could be
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epstein-barr it could be cytomegalovirus it could be herpesvirus it could be the flu
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okay the viruses like to find their way into your into your thyroid and that that’ll cause it and then it’ll go down
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um excessive iodine you know
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when people are taking like little bits of iodine maybe they’re not taking iodine this trigger that’s pretty
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common that’s why i’m mentioning it maybe maybe they go and they eat a ton of shrimp which has a ton of iodine in
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it or maybe they went and just ate lobster and shellfish bouya base or whatever it’s called
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and and and also they’re shaking and they’re jittery and then and then you and then you go back to your baseline so
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your baseline is hypothyroid and then the jitteriness is you’ve you’ve hit some sort of a trigger
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yeah you another thing that can cause it by the way is uh over medication but that doesn’t usually cause up and downs
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that’ll that’ll usually cause you to be kind of jittery jittery jittery jittery and stay that way so i mean that’s
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really the basic concept of it the end is is if you’re going up and down you’re missing a lot of triggers
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you need you need to figure out what those triggers are and you need to address them