I have no thyroid (it was surgically removed due to lumps in it) and am wondering what will happen to my body if I stop taking the medicine that replaces its function.
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Thyroid hormone is the “Go” button for nearly all cellular processes, no matter what the different organelles and proteins do individually.
Thyroid says, “Go”, and your body digests, uses energy, copies, fixes, transports, makes and repairs, cleans up, etc…metabolism.
Without thyroid hormones, your cells do only enough of that to maintain themselves, and less and less of what they ship out to the rest of rhe body.
So, yeah, you’ll get fatigued, feel gross, slow down, and nothing will work quite right. Connective tissues and epithelial layers sort of slowly fall apart. Your heart and brain start dragging ass, and the heart muscle can’t repair itself in the tiny moments of rest you get between heartbeats. You start to gain weight, get cold easily, have dry skin, poor hair quality, have constipation and poor digestion, joint andmuscle pain, depression, brittle fingernails and eventually brittle bones, balance problems, goiter, memory and mood trouble, infertility, and more.
As it goes on, especially with ZERO thyroid production, hoarseness, hair loss, loss of taste and small, mental fog, cognitive decline, puffy hands, feet, face and swollen legs, thickening of skin, low body temp, inability to keep warm, slow or irregular heart beat. Peripheral nerve damage an give you tingling, pain, or numbness in extremities. You will suffer immune problems, and recovery from injury, effort, or strain will be slow. You can get have slowed speech, mental health issues of many types, concentration and memory issues. Your body has trouble regulating blood sugar and cholesterol. The LACK of thyroid can interfere with the function of many other hormones like prolactin and cortisol.
If TOTALLY untreated long enough, myxedema occurs, and can result in hypothermia, coma, loss off consciousness, and eventually death.
You need thyroid.
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