This Is What Doctors Miss About Your Thyroid — And Why You Still Feel Off
May 14, 2025You’re tired, moody, gaining weight… but your doctor says everything is fine.
What if it’s not? What if they’re missing the real reason you don’t feel like yourself anymore?
Let’s talk about something that affects millions of women — yet is often brushed off by doctors and misdiagnosed for years: subclinical hypothyroidism.
When I was 36, I started gaining weight rapidly — 15 pounds in just one month. I felt completely drained. My energy had flatlined. I wasn’t just tired, I was wiped. My hair started falling out. My nails were brittle. I felt like I was aging 10 years in a few weeks.
I went to the doctor and begged for answers.
Their response?
“Your thyroid looks normal.”
But I knew I wasn’t okay.
And here’s the truth most people don’t know:
“Normal” doesn’t always mean healthy.
🚨 Subclinical Hypothyroidism: The Silent Struggle
My TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) was above 4.
Conventional medicine considers anything under 5 to be within range. From a functional medicine perspective however, 0.5-2 is the optimal range for TSH.
This is one reason you can still have low thyroid function — even if your labs are “normal.”
This is called subclinical hypothyroidism — and it’s where most women get stuck, dismissed, and overlooked.
You feel the symptoms… but the labs say you're fine.
So you're left without answers, and worse — without solutions.
🧬 What Low Thyroid Really Feels Like:
If you’re experiencing any of the following, it might not be “just stress” — it might be your thyroid:
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Constant fatigue or brain fog
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Unexplained weight gain
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Hair thinning or hair loss
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Brittle nails
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Feeling cold often
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Mood swings or depression
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Slowed digestion or constipation
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Irregular periods or hormone imbalance
Low thyroid = low everything.
Energy. Mood. Metabolism. Motivation. It all drops.
And it’s heartbreaking how many women are told “it’s nothing.”
🔍 So What Was the Real Root Cause?
For me, the lab numbers weren’t the full story. I had to dig deeper.
And what I found changed everything:
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Candida Overgrowth – An imbalance of yeast in the gut triggering inflammation and hormone disruption
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Heavy Metal Toxicity – Environmental toxins were interfering with my body’s natural function
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Insulin Resistance – Blood sugar swings that threw my thyroid and hormones completely out of sync
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Chronic Inflammation – The underlying fire that was slowing down every system in my body
