Digital Thermometer

It is good to take a blood sample to measure for hypothyroidism too. Four days before you see your doctor to have your blood drawn, you must begin taking your temperature three times a day. Make) a written record of your temperature (with date and time, and give this record to your doctor. Take your oral temperature with a standard mercury thermometer or digital, and note the reading at one tenth of a degree. Take the first reading of three hours after awakening, the secondthree hours later, and the third three hours later. When you wake up to, say, 7.00 would clock, the temperature at 10:00 clock, 1:00 Clock, Clock and 4:00 instead

The purpose of these temperature records is to determine the overall effectiveness of your thyroid gland in controlling the metabolism. Since most of us, with the exception of some lawyer-warm-blooded creatures, our bodies function best in a narrow temperature range. (If we're still half a fever, a degree above normal,We feel a change in our sense of well-being.)

If you have an overactive thyroid system, it will increase your body's metabolism, increase your temperature well above the normal 98.6 degrees. If too little hormone is present, will decrease your metabolism, so your temperature drops below normal.

Here are some questions to help you protect your thyroid gland:

1. Did you feel like weak muscles (especially in your upper arms and thighs) when yousimple physical tasks such as climbing stairs, rising from a chair or styling your hair?
2. Have you recently had unexplained weight gain despite eating the same amount or even less than usual?
3. Have you always cold? (For example, you have to wear a sweater, if not others, or keep your thermostat higher than seventy to two degrees.)
4. Do you have your nails break easily?
5. Is your skin dry?
6. If you find that you are shedding more hair thanusual?
7. Are you often constipated?
8. Do you have swelling of the hands or feet, or swelling under the eyes?
9. Do you have irregular menstrual periods or infertility problems?
10. Is your anti-depressants only partially effective?

If you answer "Yes" to two or more of these questions, you should see a doctor to find out if you have under active thyroid.