If you have a thyroid condition, you may also have a cholesterol problem. A cholesterol problem may exist without thyroid problems, but many thyroid patients often have high cholesterol levels. These patients often wonder and ask, ?What?s the relation between a thyroid condition and elevated cholesterol levels?? If you have that question or concern?here?s some information that can help?
In order to understand what?s going on with your high cholesterol levels, you have to consider the function of the thyroid gland. When your thyroid does not produce enough of the hormone known as TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone), your metabolism is slower. Metabolism affects your body?s ability to eliminate cholesterol.
It?s common for patients with thyroid disease to be in a position where they are making cholesterol faster than their bodies are able to break it down. Therefore a collection of excess cholesterol in the body results, because your body is simply unable to get rid of cholesterol fast enough.
Although the connection between high cholesterol and thyroid conditions are well known in the medical community, it?s possible a physician may overlook this as a symptom of a thyroid condition. One of the reasons is, high cholesterol may be occurring with other symptoms that are taken as signs of aging, or even menopause.
There are many, many symptoms of thyroid conditions (some obvious and some not so obvious). Common symptoms include: fatigue, fertility issues, headaches, joint pain, difficulty with body temperature regulation and depression.
If your cholesterol level is high and you are experiencing one or more of these other symptoms, it?s very important to discuss all of this with your physician?.because you may very well have a thyroid problem.
If you are thoroughly evaluated and properly treated for low thyroid, your cholesterol levels may be lowered, but it is very important to get high cholesterol under control to reduce your risk of cholesterol build-up in the arteries and heart disease. Thyroid issues are a very common cause for elevated cholesterol levels. If you are a thyroid patient, it is important to understand why this is so to be sure you are receiving the best treatment.
Ask your physician about your cholesterol levels if you are an existing patient being treated for low thyroid. Or if you have not been diagnosed yet, but you have elevated cholesterol, be sure to ask if this can be a result of a thyroid problem. As with other symptoms and problems you discuss, your practitioner should provide answers and solutions to control or alleviate high cholesterol and other symptoms you are experiencing.
If you don?t get the answers and treatment you deserve, it is completely within your rights to seek other options and other opinions.
Denver Thyroid Doctor, Dr. David Arthur, DC, DACNB, FACFN, CCCN is a leading expert in low thyroid and thyroid disorders in Denver, Colorado. He works with women (and a few men) of all ages who suffer from thyroid issues. Dr. Arthur takes a unique, neurological and functional medicine approach to thyroid treatment. If you?re suffering from thyroid problems and want answers and solutions, visit http://www.denverthyroidexpert.com/
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