Mood Swings Linked to Hypothyroidism

So, I have recently been diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Never even knew what the symptoms were, and how dangerous it can be. So, I am writing an article for people with mysterious symptoms.

"Hypothyroidism is often associated with mood changes like depression lethargy. Researchers, studying underlying brain processes in search of "why" this happens, reported their results at the 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals." Waltraud Eichhorn, a nuclear medicine physician at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany said, "hypothyroid patients--compared to healthy individuals--have decreased metabolism in special parts of the brain that are responsible for processing information, and remarkably, this reduction in metabolism remains detectable after thyroid hormone replacement therapy," she added. I want to put down what my symptoms were in case any of you may have them. 1. I felt extremely tired all the time. 2. I had gained weight out of the blue, and couldn't lose it. I have never been overweight, and I was gaining weight and losing it, gaining and losing. 3. I felt angry all the time. 4. I felt depressed too, and didn't know why. 5. I had no motivation to do things. When I was diagnosed, my doctor told me it was a good thing I went in when I did. A couple of years ago, my doctor then had mentioned to me to get a thyroid test. But, he never ordered it, and never mentioned it again to me. I thought it wasn't something he thought was important. So he diagnosed me as depressed. And that was that. My doctor now said if I had waited any longer, I would have started having more medical problems and they would have been pretty threatening to my well being. Basically I found out that my thyroid was not functioning at all. I am on medicine now, and am feeling great. I have to be tested every six months, once they figure out what dosage to put me on. "The thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland in the neck just above the collarbone, is an endocrine gland that makes hormones and helps set a body's metabolism (how the body gets energy from food). Hypothyroidism, a condition in which your body produces too little thyroid hormone, often leads to exhaustion and depression, affecting millions of Americans, many of them women or the elderly. There are 27 million Americans who have underactive or overactive thyroid glands, but more than half remain undiagnosed, according to recent statistics." I hope this article can maybe help someone who may be having the same problems. Ask your doctor for a thyroid test, and start feeling better with yourself!