How to know if you have a thyroid problem
- By:groshan fabiola
Reading all kinds of articles people often wonder if they are affected by any health problem. Patient’s problem is that they are looking too much into their symptoms in order to make a diagnosis fit. Self diagnosis is not recommended because only a specialist may realize, after monitoring the patient, what is he suffering of.
The common symptoms do not allow, not even the specialists, to automatically suggest thyroid disease, so we might say that for a normal patient it is impossible to tell. In thyroid the symptoms are similar to the symptoms occurred in other health problems so doctors need to investigate in order to tell a proper diagnosis.
Most of the people think the symptoms are normal. They think that they have a certain age and anxiety is a common thing at their age. Lack of exercise is believed to lead to gaining a few pounds. While most of the people think this is the way it has to be a small part of them visits a doctor. This move could help in discovering not only thyroid, but other health problems too.
For example we have to say that women that have just given birth are at risk for hypothyroidism. Symptoms occur but women consider them normal thinking that any woman complains about weight loss, fatigue or hair loss. Coincidentally or not these symptoms seem to be the symptoms encountered with post-partum hypothyroidism. It is also true that these symptoms may be the cause of lack of sleep or exercise but a medical exam is recommended to see if it is not thyroid disease, a much more severe problem.
We should also mention that like other autoimmune diseases Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and Graves ’ disease appear in most of the cases during or after stressful periods. Autoimmune thyroid problems mostly are following these periods of mental or physical stress.
After the age of 35 most specialists advise people to have thyroid testing. If nothing is discovered at that age we should not stop from seeing a doctor for at least once a year. Recent studies noticed that thyroid disease is more and more often seen. As an example we may say that more than 13 million Americans may have thyroid disease without even knowing. Even though it is known that the number of undiagnosed people is increasing the recommendation for thyroid testing has not been generally followed. It is certitude that most of the adults have never had a thyroid test unless their doctor suspects a problem.About the author:
For more information about thyroid problems or about thyroid treatment please visit this website http://www.thyroid-info-center.com/