1. It didn’t help my sweating at all. I’ve still been sweating like a horse when the temperature is even slightly elevated or when I do any remotely physical activity, like walking up a hill.
2. My sleep pattern and schedule were similarly unaffected.
3. One thing it might have affected is my mood. I have been in a great mood for the past month. Maybe that’s just because good things have been happening, so it’s really impossible to say.
4. Also it’s very hard to say, but the Isocort might have increased my sex drive.
5. At the beginning, I felt like Isocort was giving me a lactose reaction, so I started taking a Lactaid pill every morning.

I’m going to taper off the Isocort soon, and in the mean time ask my parents to order some more for me. I’d like to wait at least a month before resuming it so I can gauge my situation off it and judge whether my mood and sex drive decline.

Here is what I’ve observed so far using the Isocort along with my normal daily medications (Armour and Lanton): not much of anything, but I am definitely gassier in a way that tends to happen when I drink milk or eat ice cream (ie, flatulence caused by mild lactose intolerance). I checked the composition of Isocort and lactose/lactase is an ingredient, so that’s no surprise; I think I’ll start taking Lactaid and/or Beano daily to deal with it. Also, I have been pretty fatigued for the past couple days, but that’s likely because a house guest is staying with me indefinitely and making it difficult for me to get my normal sleep.

I also thought it might be useful to put down clearly by which criteria I’ll judge Isocort’s success or lack of it. If the Isocort significantly improves at least two of these issues, without damaging me in some other way, I will be overjoyed: sweating, fatigue, acne, weight gain. If it significantly improves one and moderately improved another one or two, I’ll be pretty happy and keep taking it.

I went to his office the other day to tell him that I’d finished the Clonidine and that I didn’t like it. Since I’m unemployed, I offered to sit in his reception area and wait until he had a spare minute to talk to me. But his receptionist sent me away and said that the doctor would call me later. When he called, he agreed that I should stop the Clonidine. He said that he could prescribe some beta blockers, but that the effect would likely be the same. He also said that there were some pretty hardcore surgical options to address the sweating, but he wouldn’t recommend them.

Then he divested again, telling me that I should go to my family doctor and get him to submit a request to the HMO for a second opinion with a specialist at Mass General. Apparently, this is something the HMO offers for people on their supplementary plans. Perhaps I’ll do this. Perhaps I won’t.

In the mean time, I’m starting a gluten-free diet. I’ve done the gluten free diet several times, but usually combined with something else. Once it was no grains, once gluten-free and dairy-free, a couple times paleolithic. I have long believed that I might have Celiac disease, especially after I failed to rule it out with genetic testing about five and a half years ago (HLA DQ2 was not detected; HLA DQ8 was detected). Still, the blood tests usually come back in the normal range toward the high end, and I’ve had two upper endoscopies that were clean, as well as a colonoscopy.

Both hypothyroidism and Celiac can affect pretty much every part of the body, so excessive sweating could be caused by Celiac, as well as the fact that I had diarrhea every day for the past 17 days.

I’m two days into the gluten-free diet and feeling ok. I’m a little bloated because of all the fruit, but I’m having an easier time than I did in the past because I’m eating rice and dairy and processed foods. I plan to keep it up for two weeks and then evaluate how I feel and whether the sweating has diminished at all.

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.

I intentionally didn’t get my thyroid blood tests done this time, because I don’t give a damn what the results would say. No matter what, I’ll continue taking whatever medications, in whatever amounts, I find to treat my symptoms.

I desperately want, and have wanted for the past two years, this endocrinologist to address the fact that many of my hypothyroid symptoms have not gone away with treatment for hypothyroidism, whether using synthetic T4, synthetic T3, or natural T4+T3. The main three are weight gain, sleep disturbance and sweating. Right now I’m managing the sleep problem with melatonin, though I prefer not to; the weight gain isn’t such a big deal because I don’t really care about my weight; but the sweating, however, is really awful.

He seemed surprised that I hadn’t tried anything for the sweating yet. He gave me a prescription for Clonidine, which is a medication for high blood pressure that is also used to treat some other things. I am kind of worried to take it because I have already fainted a half dozen times and strongly prefer not to do so again. But I’m going to take it at night when I take my melatonin, so I’ll be in my bed or close to it anyway.

The doctor asked me to call him in two weeks and tell him how it’s going with the Clonidine. His receptionists do a terrible job and he never gets messages, so I guess I’ll have to go back over there to deliver the message in person.

I have another endocrinologist appointment in a month, and I’ll bring it up again with him, but he has again and again done nothing to help me, so I know he’ll do nothing this time. In the past, he’s always said he’ll think about it, but I know he doesn’t think about it at all, because it surprises him whenever I mention it the next time. I’m sure he’s overworked and doesn’t get the time, but in that event he should just tell me up front that he will not think about it.

I am thinking I’ll tell him: that he needs to send me to someone who can do something about my sweating, and that I know he must know of someone in this country who can – and if he doesn’t, he must know someone who knows someone who can – and if he doesn’t, he must know someone who knows someone who knows someone who can (that’s all that will be necessary, because it’s a small country).

By this point, I’ve gotten everything from him that I expect to get, so I don’t really give a damn if I ruin the relationship.

This sounds awfully familiar to me. Growing up it was always “stress” that was causing me severe indigestion and discomfort. Whether it was constipation or diarrhea, bloating, gas, cramps, aches or anything else, my mother and the pediatrician always said “stress.” How many times when I was 10 fucking years old could I explain to them that I was not “stressed” and I had nothing to be stressed about?

Years later an actual doctor gave me an actual diagnosis of an actual disease – Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. She might have been the only doctor who ever believed me that “stress” was not my problem. Now whenever I go to the endocrinologist or the family physician on my HMO and try to tell them that I am treating my Hashimoto’s and still experiencing crappy quality of life symptoms (fatigue, tiredness in the evening, sweating, weight gain), I’m back to hearing about “stress.”