How Can I Manage Hair Loss And Weight Gain While Dealing With Hypothyroidism?

Posted on Mon, 5 Feb 2018

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Question : My age is 27 and I am having hypothyroidism. I am under medication. I took thyroid for two months, then my tsh went too down and t3 & t4 went too up (hypertension). then I took anti thyroid then again t3 & t4 went too low and tsh went high. currently my reports : TSH : 8.74 uIU/ml T3 : 8.9 ug/dl T4 : 1.17 ng/ml I am having symptoms like hair fall and weight gain from last one year. I Am stuck between this cycle. please advise what needs to be done.

Answered by Dr. Minal Mohit (11 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Actually low dose Thyroxine is required.

Detailed Answer:

Hi XXXX,

Thanks for posting your query.

Sorry for whatever you have gone through.

Now please tell me, Is this report of yours taken without any medicine? What is your present weight? and also please tell me what was your dose of Thyroxine when you started the treatment? Have you done anti TPO values?

Regards.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Minal Mohit (8 hours later)

yes those reports are without medication. my current weight is 79 kg and height is 167 cms. i took 25 mcg of thyronorm tablet per day. and yes i had done Anti TPO test and had value of 0.8 IU/mL.

Answered by Dr. Minal Mohit (17 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Lose weight.

Detailed Answer:

Hi XXXX,

Your borderline TSH which is putting you in subclinical range, is not autoimmune, it is because of your being overweight. If you come down to 67 kg, you will be in euthyroid range.

Your hair fall can be taken care by multi vitamins, calcium, and iron supplements. Weight loss with diet and exercise and may be Metformin. None is explained by TSH of 8.1. so madam, forget TSH and chase weight.

If still you think thyroid needs to be balanced quickly then you may start tab. Thyrox. Avoid any food or beverage over tablet for another 30 minutes.

I hope this answers your query.

Take care.

Dr. Minal Mohit, Endocrinologist

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Kampana