Jan 15, 2019
“I just went into this really low swing of major depression for
about nine months. I didn’t have a period for nine months. I gained
30 pounds. I never wanted to see friends. I didn’t see the point in
anything.”
For a year, Gabriella Campagna struggled with fatigue, joint pain,
hair loss, depression, being tired all the time, and always feeling
cold, but blamed the symptoms on the stress of post-college life
and her dance career. When she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s
thyroiditis (the most common thyroid disorder in the U.S.,
affecting 14 million people) in 2009, she was prescribed Synthroid
(sometimes misspelled as Synthyroid) and sent on her way. Synthroid
is also the most-prescribed brand-name drug in the country.
The Synthroid thyroid medication initially helped her feel better,
but then she started experiencing anxiety, heart palpitations, and
manic behavior. Campagna’s mother intuitively thought it was the
drug, but multiple doctors told her it wasn’t related and suggested
she see a psychiatrist because the issue may have been bipolar
disorder or depression. Campagna lowered her Synthroid dosage, and,
again, felt better for a while, but then things got worse.
Campagna hit such a low that she thought maybe she did have
depression or bipolar, and a psychiatrist offered to prescribe her
antidepressants, but her parents resisted. They took her to an
endocrinologist, who increased her Synthroid dosage. Within three
weeks, she had symptoms of mania.
Listen to the rest of this amazing story to hear how Gabriella
ended up in a psychiatric facility on antipsychotics, and how she
eventually got to the bottom of her issue, recovered her mental
health and got on the path to healing her Hashimoto's.
Watch the video version of this story https://getwellbe.com/inspiration/hashimotos-synthroid-reaction/
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