The symptoms of hypothyroidism

Hypothyroidism is a disease which has some symptoms of it. Generally it has the following symptoms: increase in the weight exceedingly and a round swollen face, failure of the eyebrows to grow, irregular reactions to cold, less sex drive. Along with those general symptoms there are also some specific symptoms that occur those are abdominal swell, cold hands and feet, dry and thin hair, muscle or even joint pain, a thicken skin or thin, weak fingernails.

Those specific symptoms can be separated into two areas according to the level of disorder. The symptoms at early stage are due to stress. At early stage a person always feels himself tired and his body becomes more sensitive for cold. The sensitivity for cold, all-time tiredness pain in muscles and joints, extra weight gain, which are the general symptoms, can be considered the early stage of disease. The constipation is also disturbing during this disease in the presence of all other symptoms. Hypothyroidism is equal to heavy period experience for premenopausal women.

At the early stage of disease the person has to face skin dryness and roughness, hairs become thin and dry along with some mental problem. These all symptoms are the cause of fall of thyroid hormone in the body. Some specialists think that light thyroid failure can cause major depressions. Those are the symptoms of early stage if we leave those untreated then the later symptoms occur. Those later symptoms cause the physical changes in a person. These changes are exceeded weight sleepy appearance, dry and thin hairs and rough skin. The roughness of voice and numbness of legs and arms is also one of those later symptoms. Those symptoms occur in different persons with different intensity same as of early stage. In some cases the mental disturbances and hair loss are also observed. This disease leads to the over sleeping and memory loss.

Myxedema coma is one of the most dangerous conditions which is the cause of hyperthyroidism. It’s a life threatening condition. Hypothyroidism is caused by disturbances in the pituitary glands and TRH secretion which declares that it’s not a common disease. The symptoms of thyroidism are different for different ages of people. Its instant treatment is important because it may lead to the retardation. Its common symptoms for the younger ones are constipation, oversleeping and feeding problems. In later stages children can face rough and dry skin problem and delayed teething.