Re: pain breathing in


Zippy wrote:
About 6 months ago, I started with a pain in my throat when breathing
in. The next day, I felt pain in my upper back too when breathing in.
When I bent or lay down, I felt a terrible pressure in my throat that
took a few minutes to subside. It got to a point that if I made any
movement other than stand up straight, I felt this pressure and pain. I
think the pressure was where my thyroid gland and tonsils are.

The doctor checked me over and couldn't find anything wrong. He said it
was a virus and nothing to worry about. After a day or two, the pain
went.

About two weeks ago, I had the same thing, slightly milder. Doctor said
the same thing.

Since then, I'm not quite got back to normal - tired, aches in arms and
legs as if I had been doing too much exercise the day before, which I
hadn't. That may or may not be connected to the throat pain.

Background: I'm 28, healthy with no known medical conditions.
I don't know if this is relevant, but my throid hormones have been a
little low recently, but is now back within the normal range. Recent
test results: T4: 10.9, TSH: 4.19.


Has anyone had anything similar? Any idea what it could be?
thanks
--
Zippy S

You are leaving out important info. A healthy person with no medical
conditions does not have "thyroid hormones little low recently but now
normal".
If it has nothing to do with the thyroid then why do thyroid testing?
No values were given about your previous thyroid or other testing such
as sedrate, CBC.
A TSH of 4.19 is within the "normal range" but it is not normal. There
are clinical cut-offs that some endocrinologists use with a 3.0 or
greater indicating primary thyroid failure. Such a value is considered
a compensated subclinical hypothyroidism or conditions such as
congenital or acquired peripheral resistance to thryoid hormones. The
preferred testing is free thyroxine levels and not total T4 levels as
there are other variables that may impact total T4 values other than
thyroid illness.

Just a guess here but I am thinking your doctor is waiting for your TSH
to get over 5 or out of the normal range in order to treat you for
hypothyroidism. The most common cause of hypothryoidism is Hashimoto's,
an autoimmune disease involving the destruction of the thryorid gland.
If it is viral in origin then the gland may return to normal with time
and that is the hope at least.

.

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