hyperthyroid-causes-fatigue

200 million people in the world have hyperthyroidism. Are you always tired?

Suspect hyperthyroidism.Check T3, T4, TSH
Total T3 normal value is 60 - 181 mg/dl

A worse problem is the lack of testing. Though an estimated 200
million people worldwide have thyroid disorders⁵, thyroid function
tests
are rarely given unless the doctor suspects a thyroid disorder, and most
doctors do not suspect hypothyroidism in their patients because the
symptoms are subtle. Of the estimated 13 million Americans affected by
thyroid disease, more than half are unaware of their condition4.
Thyroid
disease affects 8 times as many
women as men, possibly because women need higher levels of TH than men do,
but it has no age, gender, or ethnic barriers.
Patients may have some or
all the obvious symptoms:

• fatigue,
• lack of focus,
• depression,
• constipation,
• anxiety attacks,
• dry hair,
• dry skin,
• edema (swelling),
• lack of exercise tolerance,
• weight gain (especially in the stomach),
• muscle and joint pains,
• problems swallowing (due to enlarged thyroid),
• goiter,
• facial puffiness,
• unusual new headaches,
• loss of eyebrows,
• lack of sex drive,
• lowered body temperature,
• low or high blood pressure, and
• slowed heart rate.

Yet patients may not be diagnosed for years.

[4]Discovery Guide
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
(http://www.aace.com/pub/spec/tam2001/presstam2001.html)