Attention All Women:
If you are taking estrogen, in the form of hormone replacement or a birth control pill, it may interfere with your thyroid function and cause common symptoms of hypothyroidism like fatigue, weight gain, constipation, dry skin, poor bowel function, etc.
Their are 4 tests that help to determine whether or not estrogen is interfering with your thyroid hormones:
Many doctors miss this and you need to reconsider whether that course of estrogen is appropriate, because it can, and ofter does, interfere with the conversion of the inactive T4 into the active thyroid hormone T3. Without active T3, there's no way you can function and feel great! It's imperative to get this right.
If you are taking estrogen, in the form of hormone replacement or a birth control pill, it may interfere with your thyroid function and cause common symptoms of hypothyroidism like fatigue, weight gain, constipation, dry skin, poor bowel function, etc.
Their are 4 tests that help to determine whether or not estrogen is interfering with your thyroid hormones:
- TSH,
- T4
- T3 uptake
- Free T3.
Many doctors miss this and you need to reconsider whether that course of estrogen is appropriate, because it can, and ofter does, interfere with the conversion of the inactive T4 into the active thyroid hormone T3. Without active T3, there's no way you can function and feel great! It's imperative to get this right.
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