Does thyroid medication treat the depression symptoms that come with hypothyroidism?
Or do you need to take an antidepressant and thyroid medicine?
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Depression is not uncommon when dealing with a thyroid disorder. Hormone imbalances can affect mood and behaviors.
Depression that is caused do to improper thyroid hormone levels tends to not respond to the drugs used to treat depression.
It will be better to concentrate on optimizing thyroid hormone levels first, to avoid having to deal with balancing the body with the addition affects, and side effects, and withdrawal symptoms that go hand in hand with antidepressants.
I see far far far too many cases of docs don’t only TSH testing, using outdated lab ranges, and/or failing to test the levels of the thyroid hormones, Free T4 and Free T3.
It often ends up with the patient having insufficient hormone levels for their bodies to work in a healthy manner….
.. then there is the added plus of these same docs blaming everything on us, the patient, which we then internalize which then increases the depression…
IMHO of course
Thyroid meds only replace thyroid hormone, depression is another issue and requires its own meds.
Thyroid medication will probably help your depression. Most people with hypothyroidism become depressed because they don’t feel normal. Anytime you are sick with a debilitating disease it will affect your mental state. Feeling tired, lethargic and run down all the time can certainly cause depression. See if your condition improves with just the thyroid medication first. There’s a good chance that once you get back to normal functioning, your mental state will go back to normal as well. If it doesn’t, then maybe it’s time to talk with the doc about getting some counseling or getting on an antidepressant.