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Hypothyroid Forums › General & Support › Connection w/ stop smoking and hypothyroidism?
05/24/2009 04:06 AM
MsCtrl
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i was reading a man's blog. He said he has a theory that he would elaborate on later (I never found it) and asked "Did you recently quit smoking."

YES! I stopped 5 months ago. I've had a low thyroid for years but it got really bad after I stopped smoking. So now I am dying to know what his theory was!!! Is there a connection between the two?

Does anyone else know? Did anyone else stop smoking and suddenly have serious symptoms with hypothyroidism?

This is driving me mad!
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05/26/2009 05:08 AM  Top
txmedicalfreak
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MsCtrl ~

Hi, this is news to me. I have tried to quit smoking several times without any luck. Although, I did cut down to around 5 per day when I was pregnant with my last child and after he was born is when my hypo started. Is it linked? I have no idea?

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05/26/2009 07:00 PM  Top
Auntie3285
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That s interesting, MsCtrl ...

I ve been a smoker for 30+ years but was only dx d with hypothyroidism in 2007 . My PCP always lectures me on quitting but has never mentioned any ties between smoking and thyroid problems.

I have such an erratic thyroid that if I even (for a nano second) thought that quitting smoking would help my thyroid, I would quit yesterday .

My thyroid continually makes me exhausted but my blood work says I don t need my med dosage changed. Sad

05/26/2009 11:47 PM  Top
bluefibroangel
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You know ladies I personally don't think that those tests are very accurate. I was DX with hashimotos disease in 1993 and I started on .25mcg of Synthroid and now 16 yrs later I'm only on .88mcg and I feel worse than before. It also did not shrink my goiter it's getting bigger. Burns me up really!!

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05/31/2009 10:21 PM  Top
dawnangela
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I stopped smoking 5 months ago..felt fine..3 days ago diagnosed with goiter, hashimoto disease and myxedoma..i thought the same thing..

06/01/2009 03:34 PM  Top
charline181
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I quit smoking in March 2008 and was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in November 2008. I have heard that smoking masks the tests. I've been borderline for years but when I stopped smoking the reading was more accurate. Had I been put on meds years ago I don't think I'd be in the shape I'm in now!
Currently battling:
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I remind myself daily there is a light at the end of this tunnel!

06/02/2009 03:40 AM  Top
angieprnll
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I stopped smoking just 2 months ago, but symptoms did worsen after stopping. I started feeling bad in January and figured it might be tied to smoking too much.

06/02/2009 06:51 AM  Top
mammy
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Auntie, that's me too, exactly. My endo doctor told me that in cases like mine (undiagnosed) for ten years, it takes a long time for your body to recover and it never will fully. He also said he can't always rely on the blood work, that I'm the one that knows how I feel. While the pill are obvioulsy needed, they are trying to fool our bodies into thinking it's the real thing....all according to my doc and makes sense to me.
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05/14/2010 09:53 PM  Top
jsmit494
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Yes Yes Yes! I quit smoking in November and went to the hospital in December! there should be some hypothyroid nursery rhyme like that. I wondered if quiting smoking had any impact on the timing of my condition manifesting. please let me know what you find out!

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05/15/2010 06:41 AM  Top
Auntie3285
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Hello jsmit,

Welcome to our group ~~~

So you do think that there might be a link between thyroid problems and smoking/quitting ?

This is quite interesting !!! Possibly we will get others here with input to this subject and see what we can prove over theory.

I am interested in what others find out also ....

marilyn
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