Thyroid?

[mulesrules]

I've just had some bloods done, I went to see the GP about possible HRT and she suggested I get some bloods done to rule anything else out. Apparently my thyroid levels have come back borderline (I don't know any more than that) and I have to get them done again in 2-3 months time.
My symptoms are:

Anxiety
Feeling of a lump in the throat (was told years ago this was globus sensation due to anxiety)
Sometimes feel like I want to gag due to sensation of lump in throat
Always hot
Excessive sweating
Insomnia (not always)
Achy joints
Mood swings
Overweight
Puffy ankles

I've had most of these for years! And always put it down to hormones/general anxiety. And more recently peri menopause. I'm 49, still having regular periods,

So Dr Google tells me some of these could be down to an overactive thyroid, but I thought that meant weight loss which definitely isn't applicable to me!! I've always struggled with my weight and eating habits, my whole life.

Any thoughts or experiences from anyone on this would be very much appreciated.

Underactive thyroid, hypothyroidism. Apart from the hot thing, as it’s usually cold with hypothyroidism.
I believe that your levels can be heading the way to hypothyroidism for a while, and you can be symptomatic long before your levels reach ‘abnormal’, although many of your symptoms also cover peri, which you will be at 49.

Thanks for your reply.
Looking at the NHS website I'm not sure if either really fit completely but the anxiety and sensitivity to heat are overactive. Confusing!

Goitre?

I had to look that up! I don't have any visible swelling so I'm not sure really.

Ive got an under active thyroid which was borderline for a while. My TSH was raised but T4 was normal. Eventually my TSH was raised and T4 low and the diagnosis was official and I’ve been on thyroxine since.

However many endocrinologists would recommend that if TSH is raised you should be diagnosed and treated at that point and not to wait for the T4 to go low but GPs often won’t act on that recommendation. My theory (in England anyway where prescriptions are not free for all) is that because an under active thyroid makes you entitled to free prescriptions this is a money saving exercise. But this is just my opinion!

Wrt symptoms, an under active thyroid slows your body down, while an overactive speeds it all up. So with a low, you get low mood, low energy, low body temperature, low metabolic rate, heart rate etc, while you get polar opposite symptoms with an overactive thyroid.

A goitre is usually the sign of an overactive thyroid.

ps just checked and it can be a sign of both. Every days a school day!

I was diagnosed a little while ago with a very underactive thyroid and it was a big shock because I had no symptoms at all.

Thanks for the replies, I guess I'll have to wait and see what the next blood test shows and go from there.

I would say get your thyroid results from your GP including ranges next to your result, and start to track the numbers.
Reception should be able to give you a printout, or sometimes you can register to see them online.
sometimes vitamins are low which doesn’t help thyroid, I do a vit B, folate, ferritin, vitD test every year to check.