Tired of Being Tired

Are you struggling with the following symptoms?

* Insomnia (poor sleep)
* Low energy - fatigue
* Ice-cold hands or feet
* Dry skin
* Hair loss (alopecia)
* Brain fog
* Weight gain
* Tingling in hands and feet
* Muscle pain
* Edema (swelling in ankles)
* Elevated cholesterol

You may have an under active thyroid. I did for over fifteen years. To add insult to injury, the condition was initially undiagnosed then treated improperly, so I was taking the wrong medication daily that would never have solved the problem.

There are over two dozen major symptoms and signs associated with an under active thyroid, and the disease seems epidemic among women between the ages of 45 and 60.

The thyroid is a small gland in the neck that affects nearly every organ in the body. It produces hormones that tell each organ how fast to work, and it regulates the body's metabolism, but millions of Americans have disorders that cause the thyroid to produce too much or too little of the hormones and that affects everything from energy level to brain fog and weight gain.

There are actually four types of thyroid hormones: T1, T2, T3, and T4. The most important are T3 and T4. I was only being treated for T1, a common mistake, so I still couldn't lose weight; my skin was dry and my hair was falling out. When the deficiencies in all four hormones were finally addressed properly, the symptoms began to be resolved.

The other component that is recently getting a lot of attention is that those who struggle with these symptoms also do not have enough iodine in the thyroid gland and that supplementation is helpful. Check with your physician about its benefits.