From Forest Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Armour Thyroid.

 

EIGHT MAIN SYMPTOMS OF HYPOTHYROIDISM

Fatigue:
Unusual, persistent, especially on awakening, less toward the evening, with slow recovery.

Depression:
Psychological melancholia, with tendency towards suicide.

Coldness:
Deep as well as peripheral (forehead, nose, hands, feet & knees), cyanosis, dead finger, chilblains.

Headache:
Migraine, tension headache.

Muscle cramps:
In calves, toes, fingers, diaphragm, also in thighs and upper arms.

Constipation:
Hard bowel movement at most every 2 days

Arthritis:
Rheumatoid pain, joint, tendon and muscle swelling and stiffness

Neurology:
Prolonged Achilles’ tendon reflex

SYMPTOMS OF HYPOTHYROIDISM:

General:
Fatigue; Impaired memory; Dullness and slow cerebration; Depression; Repeated infections of sinus, respiratory and urinary tract; Weight gain but also weight loss; Low basal temperature (<36.7 degrees C); Sensation of coldness; Intolerance to cold but also to heat.

Head:
Pallor; Hertoghe eyebrow sign [missing outer 1/3 of eyebrows]; Hair loss; Lock of bleached hair; Sparse hair; Prematurely grey; Hair of poor quality; Dry: Thick or thinly structured; Red hair; Incapable of taking a curl: Headache;  Pouched eyes; Swelling and paraesthesia of hands and wrists; carpal tunnel syndrome; Myxoedema; Repetitive sneezing; Allergy; Bronchospasm; Teeth in staggered rows; Aphtosis; Macroglossia with indentations (large tongue).

Neck:
Thyroid hyperplasia (swelling): Lingual thyroid; Lack of any thyroid tissue; Hoarseness; Stridor (harsh breathing); Tirage; Sensation of constriction of the throat.

Cardiovascular:
Bradycardia (slow pulse) but palpitations; Constrictive pain over the heart; Microvoltage on ECG; Enlarged heart on X-ray; Bad circulation in the limbs; Cyanosis; Dead finger; Hypertension with elevated diastolic pressure.

Gastrointestinal:
Dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing); Slow digestion; Lack of appetite; Constipation; Atonic digestive tract; Piercing anal pain; Protuberant abdomen; Umbilical hernia; Weight gain unrelated to food intake but also weight loss.

Urogenital:
Premenstrual tension; Spaniomenorrhea; Dysmenorrhea; Polymenorrhea; Amenorrhea; Delayed fertility; Weight gain of more than 12 kg during pregnancy; Heavy babies of more than 4.5 kg at birth.

Orthopaedics:
Generalized weakness; Arthritis; Muscle cramps; Burning or tingling pain in the extremities; Carpal tunnel syndrome.

Neurology:
Prolonged Achilles’ reflex

Dermatology:
Lack of perspiration; Dry skin, coarse, crackled, with cracks in the thick heel and finger skin; Scaling; Hyperkeratosis of the extensor side of the limbs; Chipped nails.

Familial:
Thyroid disease; Choleithiasis; Hypercholesterolemia; Tuberculosis; Mycosis; Allergy; Hay fever; Diabetes mellitus; Arteriosclerosis; Myocardial infarction; Xanthelasmata; Vitiligo; Psoriasis; Deafness; Pernicious anemia.

Paediatrics:
Elderly look; Wide epicanthus; Turned-up nose owing to a short skull base; Cretinism; Growth and intellectual retardation; Delayed ossification and dentition; Slowness physical as well as mental; Drowsiness in daytime, but sleeplessness at night. On the contrary Hyperikinesis; Longstanding enuresis (over 2 years of age).

Others not listed:

Tarsal Tunnel - burning feet
Swollen Eyelids
Fibromyalgia
Brittle Hair
Vertigo
Blurred Vision
Floaters in eyes