I have hasis with goiter and nodule. I was diagnosed over 15 years ago. The list of symptoms for each is quite long I am mostly hypo on symptom chart and a couple hyper symptoms. I think as with most illness and diseases the indiv. persons body dictates how the illness will react with your body. an easy example for me with medicine is nyquil keeps me awake dayquil puts me to sleep (clearly not as the label indicates) I hope that makes sense.
As for the diarrhea the only time I had a problem with that was when the dr had upped my synthroid and I had thinning hair and diarrhea (alot not constant) for 2 weeks until I asked him to check again at which point he said I was too high and lowered my dose. As for feeling better that is also for the indiv. I still have most of my orig. symptoms they havent gotten worse but havent gone away either. I hope this helps.

Hi Vanilla,

IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) is a symptom of Hashi. Try psyllium caps(fibre), a probiotic and ground flax seed - I found all these (natural) remedies helped me a lot.

yeah, I just talked to my doctor and she actually just subscribed them to me. She said the same thing. She actually won't use the term IBS because it's just what doctors say when they don't know what is wrong or how to help. So she is actually taking action and testing me for several other autoimmune things and inflammatory things to get to the bottom of the severe diarrhea, but she said even with autoimmune, you have to go on gluten free diet because the disease can't tell the difference between the gluten and the cells it's attacking so it's attcking both. So I'm hoping that I will feel better soon.

Hi vanillabear,

As you probably know, hashis is an autoimmune disease. There is heaps of confusion about what causes such diseases but I have done a heap of research on it and there is strong evidence that they can be related to your gut and hence your diet. I was advised to cut out all gluten and soy and limit dairy. It has really really helped me. My stomach used to make the LOUDEST noises when I ate and I felt nauseous all the time. Since cutting out gluten, I feel normal. It might also work for you.

Another autoimmune disease is coeliac disease. That can cause diarrhea. Have you been tested for that? It's not uncommon to have more than one autoimmune disease.

I hope you get to the bottom of this (pun intended). good luck.

Hey I just posted on this before reading your's!
I have autoimmune also, and in my research i keep seeing Celiac Disease come up. Google Celiac and Hypothyroid. It has been recommended that those with Thyroid Disease be tested for Celiac Disease... that is why a lot of people with thyroid problems switch to gluten free diets - but there are a lot of drawbacks to gluten free, so get tested without making any changes to your diet. If it comes back positive, go from there, but you will nto get an accurate result if you cut out the gluten before testing. I've been having bowel issues as well and there's no real pattern to it, so I am asking to be tested as well.
as for the other part of your question, I've read that in the beginning hashi's goes between hyper and hypo, but dont know about later on... ? I'm extremely hypo (tsh 242 at diag.) so no idea on hyper..
Good luck!

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the support. I am getting tested, for celiac and crohns. I love my new doctor, she explained everything and the best part is that I actually understood what she was saying. I am on gluten free, well trying my best. Other than the headache this morning, I am starting to slowly feel so much better everyday. She told me to take selenium, 3 of my probiotics, and a fish oil. I am also taking a thyroid supliment until She prescribes me something else. I have done research as well and I understand now what is going on. I'm just so mad that all my other doctors were so dumb and let me be this sick for sooooo many years. Non of them wanted to do any testing, even my thyroid doctor that I went to this past december didn't tell me I have Hashi's and explain to me what it was. Never seeing her ever again. I am sooo thankful I found this new doctor that has explained to me that my body is attacking itself and that gluten is making it worse because the cells can't tell the difference between the other cells or organs and the gluten so it's actually causing inflammation. And the reason why our guts get effected the most is because our bodies developed that before anything else so when something is going wrong with our bodies, our guts is the first to notice and respond, if that makes sense. It did to me when she explained it. So I am waiting to get extra money to go buy stuff to make my own bread and different things. I am finding sooo much that is gluten free that I am hopeful, but I'm still haveing a hard time adjusting. But it will be ok. I am going through slight withdrawals but not too bad yet. Also, she did say that after being on gluten free for so long and your stomach can heal for a while, it is possible to be able to reintroduce certain foods and you might be ok eating them once again. So that gives hope, I love love love bread and food in general, so we'll see. She is also going to be food testing me sometime soon so we can pin point what foods my body just can't handle. So I hope this helps anyone else dealing with this. The number one thing she told me is that "IBS" is not real, doctors just use it because they don't know what is wrong with you and they don't know what to do for it, and like my other doctors in the past they are too lazy to run tests to find out what is wrong with you. That's what is sooo frusterating. I went to one doctor 7 years ago with my test results for my thyroid and he told me I was fine, and they were the same as they are now! If he would have really used his medical brain he would have known to do more tests or even send me to a specialist then and maybe I could have gotten better years ago. Most doctors really don't understand the downsides of gluten. I am coming to know so many people with celiac or even in my situation that aren't but still need to be without gluten because their bodies are getting sick. It's not from the gluten, just gluten makes it worse because like i said, your body can tell the difference. Anyway, didn't mean to write a book, i just wanted to share what I have recently found out and I am releived that I finally have a doctor that is knowledgable and is really there to help me.