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I'm 16,9 years old , each morning when I wake-up I feel fatigued & sleepy but I sleep enough ( from 9pm-10pm to 6am ) and in holidays when I sleep more or less the reason don't change ( I feel sleepy) , why is this? I did the tests of blood (iron …)every thing is good .**
but I suffer thyroid ( the hormones don't stay in the average) can this affect on my problem ? ansewr me as soon as possible !!!
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It sounds like you’ve very low thyroid. Have you had a blood test to get your TSH and T4 count? Have you gained any weight-especially around your waist. Are you really sluggish and just not interested in much?
The best physician to see is an endocrinologist or an Internist.
If your TSH comes back low, you surely need some levothyroxine. Stay away from the Armours thyroid
stimulant, there's been some bad reports on that.
Synthroid also works very well.
You must take it exactly as the physician states. It must be
taken each morning before you eat or drink anything.
take the pill with a full glass of water, then wait 1/2-l hour before you eat. Eat a normal breakfast each day.
Also, eat 3 meals per day, only light meals. Don't take iodine if you are taking the medications.
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you could also have sleep apnea. Has anyone ever mentioned that you snore or stop breathing while you sleep? If so, then you have sleep apnea. what happens is when you stop breathing, your body wakes you up just enough so you start breathing again but not enough so you notice it and when you get up in the morning, it feels like you never slept. When I was tested for this, it was found that I woke up 60-90 times in an hour. That explained why I fell asleep at my computer, at a red light in traffic, and why I felt drugged and droopy all the time. I was given a clean bill of health and a C-PAP machine to use at night and that was 8 years ago. I sleep like a log now and am rarely exhausted. Research this and if this sounds like you, tell your physician. Apnea can cause high blood pressure, heart problems and other things and is or can be very serious.
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If you’ve been diagnosed with a thyroid condition that causes low energy levels, then you’ve a hypothyroidism. For this you can take prescription thyroid medication. If you like to stay the more natural route then kelp supplements may help, even though I just read this article(http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200… so maybe the pharmaceutical approach is safer.
Kelp is a type of seawead that’s very high in Iodine. It's the Iodine that may help to balance this condition. Kelp is also known as Kombu. I buy this Kombu powder made by Mitoku, which is just pure seawead powder, but it's not in capsule form. I've been adding some into fruit smoothies, just for more nutritional variety. I don't know if it's arsenic free; it's supposed to be some quality stuff, but after reading the article about arsenic, I'm gonna have to do some more research. Maybe I'll get it tested.
Don't take kelp or other over the counter thyroid supplements along with prescription thyroid medication or you may end up causing a different type of thyroid imbalance or other potentially severe problems. It may take weeks for any medication or supplement to work properly, so don't anticipate miracles.
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What are toxicity symptoms for iodine?(taken from http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname… This site also lists a few other foods that are pretty high in iodine, such as yogurt and milk)
Accidental overdose of iodine from medications or supplements in amounts exceeding one gram may cause burning in the mouth, throat and stomach and/or abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weak pulse, and coma.
It is difficult to take in too much iodine from food sources alone. It is estimated that men and women consume at most 300 mcg and 210 mcg of iodine per day, respectively. In general, even high intakes of iodine from food are well-tolerated by most people.
However, in certain circumstances, excessive consumption of iodine can actually inhibit the synthesis of thyroid hormones, thereby leading to the development of goiter (enlargement of the thyroid gland) and hypothyroidism. Excessive iodine intake might also cause hyperthyroidism, thyroid papillary cancer, and/or iodermia (a serious skin reaction).
In an attempt to prevent these symptoms of iodine toxicity, the Institute of Medicine established the following Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (TUL) for iodine:
* 1-3 years: 900 mcg
* 4-8 years: 300 mcg
* 9-13 years: 600 mcg
* 14-18 years: 900 mcg
* 19 years and older: 1,100 mcg
* Pregnant women 14-18 years: 900 mcg
* Pregnant women 19 years and older: 1,100 mcg
* Lactating women 14-18 years: 900 mcg
* Lactating women 19 years and older: 1,100 mcg
It is important to note that if you’ve an autoimmune thyroid disease (for example, Grave's disease or Hashimoto's disease) or if you have experienced an iodine deficiency at some point in your life, you might be more susceptible to the dangers of excessive iodine consumption, and might, therefore, need to monitor your intake of iodine more carefully.
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I think that you should just get on some prescription thyroid medication; that way a physician can monitor your progress and your dosage. This seems like the safest and potentially most effective method. Also, a B-vitamin complex might help.
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Sorry, the first article won't properly link, for some reason. Here it is:
High Arsenic Levels Found In Herbal Kelp Supplements
ScienceDaily (Apr. 7, 2007) — A study of herbal kelp supplements led by UC Davis public health expert Marc Schenker concludes that its medicinal use may cause inadvertent arsenic poisoning and health dangers for consumers, especially when overused. Schenker and two researchers evaluated nine over-the-counter herbal kelp products and found higher than acceptable arsenic levels in eight of them.
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The new study, published in the April issue of Environmental Health Perspectives was prompted by the case of a 54-year-old woman who was seen at the UC Davis Occupational Medicine Clinic following a two-year history of worsening alopecia (hair loss), fatigue and memory loss.
The woman's symptoms had begun with minor memory loss and fatigue. Her primary care doctor initially found nothing wrong with the woman and thought the symptoms were related to menopause.
With no specific diagnosis or treatment recommendations, the patient started taking a variety of herbal therapies, including a kelp supplement, fish oil, ginkgo biloba and grape seed extract. The kelp supplement was the only herbal therapy she took regularly throughout the course of her illness.
Over a period of several months the woman's short- and long-term memory became so impaired that she could no longer remember her home address. She also reported having a rash, nausea and vomiting, which made it very hard to work and forced her to leave a full-time job. The woman actually increased her dosage of kelp from two to four pills a day after her physicians still couldn’t find a clear diagnosis.
Subsequent laboratory tests finally revealed arsenic in the patient's blood and urine. At her physician's recommendation, the patient discontinued the kelp supplement. Within weeks, her symptoms disappeared, and within several months arsenic was no longer detected in her urine and its levels had dropped significantly in her blood. She later was referred to the UC Davis Occupational Medicine Clinic as a follow-up to her primary care.
“It's unfortunate that a therapy that's advertised as contributing to 'vital living and well-being' would contain potentially unsafe levels of arsenic,” stated Schenker, who is a professor of Public Health Sciences and a leading authority on occupational and environmental Diseases and respiratory illness. “Concentrations of materials contained in herbal supplements, including both the expected benefits and potential side effects, should be studied, standardized, monitored and accurately labeled.”
To assess the concentration of arsenic present in commercially available kelp supplements, the UC Davis investigators bought nine over-the-counter kelp samples from local health food stores. Included were samples from three different batches of the product consumed by the patient.
The researchers sent the samples to the California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory in Davis, which operates in partnership with UC Davis, the California Department of Food and Agriculture and others to provide specialized testing that helps protect both human and animal health. Investigators found detectable levels of arsenic in eight of the nine kelp supplements by using a hydride vapor generation method with an inductively coupled argon plasma spectrometer. Seven of the supplements exceeded the tolerance levels for food products set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
“Part of the problem,” stated Schenker, “is that the FDA has limited control over dietary supplements. It can't scrutinize products like herbal kelp before they enter the market, so it has to rely on adverse reports to determine product safety.”
He noted that none of the kelp products in the study had labels indicating the presence of arsenic, nor were there any warnings about the potential dangers of ingesting huge quantities of the supplement.
Arsenic is a heavy metal that occurs naturally in the environment and as a by-product of some agricultural and industrial activities. Due to high arsenic concentrations in algae and marine micro-organisms, seafood is the highest dietary source of arsenic for consumers. While long-term human exposure to arsenic from food sources such as fish does occur, it is usually significantly lower than anything approaching toxic levels. How-ever, dietary supplements, which are largely unregulated, have raised health concerns.
There have been a number of published studies highlighting cases in which the uses of homeopathic remedies to relieve everything from asthma to rheumatoid arthritis have caused arsenic poisoning. Schenker's findings offer a cautionary tale for consumers who use herbal treatments and dietary supplements. The kelp samples analyzed in the study had consistently elevated levels of arsenic, but they were considerably lower than previously documented concentrations found in other herbal remedies.
“What concerns me,” said Schenker, “is that chronic exposure to contaminated herbal supplements, even those with moderately elevated concentrations of arsenic, can still be toxic. Consumers won't find such label information on these products, so they could end up like that woman in our study who consumed dangerously high amounts of a toxic substance without realizing it.”
The complete article — entitled “A Case of Potential Arsenic Toxicity Secondary to Herbal Kelp Supplement,” is co-authored by Eric Amster, from the UC Davis School of Medicine, and Asheesh Tiwary, from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and the California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory System.
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Exhaustion can have many, many different roots, so it is great that you have had physical tests done to eliminate some of the more severe factors. Do you take a multi vitamin or anything like that? You could just be lacking something in your diet that may contribute to low energy. What I found helps me (although I still sometimes feel I need more sleep than a normal person), is to take a B-Complex vitamin. NatureMade has the one that I use called Super B-Complex. You can purchase it at just about any grocery store. I take one in the morning, and one right before bed, which may be over-kill, I suppose just one in the morning would be plenty.
Here’s what the bottle looks like and some additional information on the produce:
http://www.naturemade.com/ProductDatabas…
Excercise can also help to increase your energy levels, so if you don't already, you might try adding some to your daily routine. Hope this helps!