looking for help in the thyroid community

I posted this in an online thyroid discussion group, so maybe somebody will read it and be able to help me:

Is anyone familiar with excessive sweating as a symptom of Hashimoto’s? I developed Hashimoto’s a little more than seven years ago, and ever since then, even a slight uptick in temperature makes me break out in sweat. Now that it’s summer, I can’t walk down the street without getting totally drenched.

I’ve treated my hypothyroidism over time with Synthroid (137 MCG), T3 (100 MCG) and now Armour (4.5 grains). My T3 and T4 are both average to high (but normal for an otherwise healthy young man in his 20s). I stress that the sweating accompanied the onset of other symptoms of hypothyroidism and did NOT start when I began treating the hypothyroidism (I can be sure because a period of two years elapsed between those times).

If you aren’t aware of a Hashimoto’s- or hypothyroidism-sweating connection, what about a connection between something that can cause excessive sweating and that can also trigger Hashimoto’s? Or a connection between Hashimoto’s and other linked medical conditions for which sweating is a symptom?

Thank you all so much in advance for your help. I’m pretty much at my wit’s end, and it’s progressed way beyond the point of a mere inconvenience and into dangerous territory. I’m reluctant to walk my dog outside during the daylight because I might lose so much fluid from sweat that I’ll dehydrate.

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