Hypothyroidism!

Last spring I felt numbness in the bottom of my foot, the left one, under my toes. I was talking to my mom and I casually mentioned it to her. She right away made me call my doctor and make an appointment. She was concern about diabetes which runs in my dad's side of the family.

My doctor had my blood tested and concluded that no I am OK. She then told me that since it is only one foot, it is most probably the compressed nerve in my lower back and she told me that I should lose weight, I was around 160 pounds. I did listen to her, NOT, and instead gained 40+.

I had gotten used to the numbness and tingling sensations, but the days that I have been working at the gym, standing a good 7, 8 hours, I have been feeling some pains and more numbness, moreover, now it is in both my feet! So I made an appointment to go see my doctor, but in the mean time I decided to check to see what could cause it.

Apparently one of the symptoms of hypothyroidism is numbness and tingling in feet! I started reading about hypothyroidism, and I have a few of the other symptoms, including weight gain in a short period of time (i.e., 40+ pounds in eight months), feeling cold all the time (my feet and hands are freezing all the time), hair loss (well my hair has tined a bit), fatigue (I feel tired a lot, especially lately. I called my advisor and cancelled our weekly meeting this week, since I was so sleepy on Monday; slept from 1-4 pm).

Anyhow, if I have hypothyroidism, I am in big trouble! Lots of people are complaining that their doctors have not been able to control their issue with medications. They feel lousy, not themselves, depressed, etc. And most reported weight gain after staring on their medications. That is very discouraging.

So that is what I have been doing in the past two days, reading about hypothyroidism and hoping that I don't have it!