Oh boy, yes. It feels like you've lost control and you keep trying to figure out if there's something you're not consciously realizing that bothers you. Have you tried to figure out if there's anything that you haven't worked through? I highly doubt that's what it is, but it's always something to check first. I have found that immediately doing something to distract me has helped. Calling a person who makes me laugh helps a lot. So does planning time to myself with all the stops, movie, bath, candy, the works. Other than that, if it doesn't go away on its own then a doctor is the way to go. When I was placed on my medication, within a month, I was able to get out of bed again and go out without getting upset.

Ahh sigh of relief, does it just go away? I'm freaking out how much I'm crying, I don't cry that much, the saddest movies never make me cry. But now I am crying over EVERYTHING. I've tried distracting myself, but I ultimately go back to the depressed anxious heart pounding for nor reason thing. I've been on the same thyroid meds for over 7 years and haven't really had many problems with my levels for about 4 or 5 years. I feel like I've gone through mild cases of what I am going through right now before this, but it has never been this bad before.

Perhaps this is a way of your body telling you that your medicine isn't cutting it anymore. This does happen and it shows in little steps even before your blood tests say it. I can't lie to you, it doesn't just go away. I know you don't wanna hear that, but you need to know the truth. It takes time and suffering to get through. But in time, you get better at pushing through those moments. In time, your levels could go back to where they need to be and it'll poof dissapear. Sometimes you need extra medicine. It all depends on person to person.

I have ongoing depression and anxiety but I have a host of reasons most people can only blink at LOL. The depression seemed to go away when I initially started thyroid but now I'm not sure. It all takes time to work out. DOn't give up,

I take cytomel for my thyroid and even though it elevates my mood, I still have to go to a therapist and take zoloft and abilify for my depression.

The addition of antidepressants helps me have a quality life.
This is just my experience; hope you can get the help you need.

Sharon

Oh my goodness, let me tell ya......right now, I am a basket case, I'm crying over everything, getting mad at the stupidest crap, can't control my emotions and my poor husband (God love that man) pays the price when it gets this way. Mine comes and goes, I just got put on Armour Thyroid, and my levels are still pretty high I am sure, I feel a little better mentally, but sometimes I need to vent, cry and beg for mental relief.
I've been told I need therapy, but I never needed 'therapy' before and my life is a million times better now than it ever has been, aside from this medication/disease crap.
You are so not even alone!

Bee,

I was told the depression goes with the hypothyroidism and anxiety too. I think it's all the brain chemistry/master gland thing...our thyroids are big parts of our bodies doing well.

I know the struggle my dear. Some days I barely feel alive. But like you, I cry or get upset over anything. Or I might feel happy or joyful, but it's hard to remember things too. I feel mostly flat..okay..just kinda flat.

I take zoloft to fight off symptoms of anxiety and depression. It helps some but honestly I remember being a very joyful person when I was younger.

Now I feel i mainly exist. Not in a bad way..just kinda here, ya know?

I went through the exact same thing. I was diagnosed with hashimoto's about a year and a half ago and it's taken me this entire time to get my body back to normal but I'm still really struggling emotionally. A lot of the times I'd feel really anxious and depressed for no reason or for the smallest things in the world. It got so bad last year I just stopped going to school because I couldn't function at all. But believe me it eventually gets better and will keep getting better. But you should also consider altering your dose of meds.There's a lot of different "normal" levels for different people. So what your doctor calls normal TSH levels isn't always what your body would do best with. I know for me the normal level of TSH isn't low enough for my body to work correctly and for me to even feel well. So maybe talk to your doctor about raising/lowering your medication to see if there's any positive change. I swear to you, it really does get better with each passing month and you're not alone at all in what your going through.

I went through the same thing your going through about 25 years ago when I was diagnosed with hashimoto's. I talked it over with my endo dr. and he suggested taking an anti-depressant, I was totally against it. We discussed it over and over again and about 6 months later when I still wasn't feeling myself I finally agreed. What a god send I'm not saying all the feelings went away but boy I did feel better. Over the years I've had my med's adjusted and changed but I still take an anti-depressant. I have a lot of stress in my life so I also see a therapist which helps some also, just try and remember you will have good days and bad days, I think we all do.

The weirdest and hardest part for me is that I've had Hashimoto's since 2003. I remember having a rough time getting my emotions in check at the beginning, but why would all of this happen 7 years later out of the blue? I just feel like I've been knocked over and there's nothing to help me get up..I'm just laying in the dirt waiting for each day to go by.

I had the same problems. Just because your TSH is normal doesn't mean you're treating you condition completely. Hashis is an autoimmune disease and is much more complicated than your TSH score. I recently read a book that saved my life. It's called "Why do I still have thyroid symptoms when my thyroid tests are normal?" It is written by Datis Kharrasian. Look it up on Amazon.com and BUY IT TODAY! The book just came out in late 2009 and is packed with great information. I read it two weeks ago and I've followed all the suggestions and I feel better than I have in 6 years! And I've lost 10 lbs....

There are answers out there. Don't just listen to your doctor and pop pills for all your symptoms when you can treat the CAUSE. My doctor tried to get me to take anti-depressants and I refused because I am totally against them. Don't ever give up. You just need to make the decision to get better!

I have ordered that book! Thank you, I will try it. I have a different thyroid book, but it never helped much, it had a few sentences that helped but really it was super boring and "doctor" like.

It is just so hard to be patient, I am really struggling just waiting to feel better. I want to be better now and get on with my life!!!!!

Brenna,

I was diagnosed with Hoshimoto's when I was 19. I am several years older than that now (not in my head) but time wise yep I'm older! lol

I think i've struggled emotionally all my life but stress never helps..had heaps of it like most people..and stress alters our bodies in so many ways

have you undergone any major stresses...positive or negative recently?

Yeah I've had a lot of stressful things happen over the last two years. I graduated from college, only to have the economy tank, struggled to find a job for a year, found a job doing something I love (teaching dance) but not what I went to school for. Realized what I went to school for is NOT at all what I want to do. I love my job, but I work with kids and that is stressful. My sister who is my world and my best friend moved across the country so I'm dealing with life without her by my side, I've moved three times in the last two years, My roommate left on a whim and so I'm struggling to pay my rent every month. My boyfriend and I have a strange relationship which goes from picture perfect to this mysterious he's not sure if we're meant for each other land, that same boyfriend is trying to finish getting his master's degree in design which is no piece of cake so his stressful world doesn't help much, I have another part time job at a office I hate, in a position I hate, which I recently took some time away from, I had a very tramatic incident happen at the dance studio that I can't seem to get past which has to do with legal matters that I can't talk about to anyone, I keep on finding new roommates and they keep falling apart, I'm sure there is more that I can't even think of at the moment...

BUT I've always been really good at handling stress, even as a kid and growing up, and I've always been really good at finding a positive way to look at bad things happening. And I can with all of those stressful things, I can see the positive, and it doesn't stress me out as much. None of my symptoms make any sense to me.

oh yeah,haha. Actually I know exactly what your going through. I went to the doctors not to long ago about a week and a half and they told me my levels were normal aswell yet I've found myself crying almost everynight. I think you feel overwelmed, I know I do with everything going. I feel like this disease has taken all of the energy out of me. But things WILLL get better its just a matter of time. Things will speak for itself, maybe trying another synthroid medicine or taking smaller doses of synthroid. Hang in there girl:)