How Thyroid Affects Every Stage of a Woman’s Life
If you believe that, all what thyroid does to you is to make you overweight or underweight, when it malfunctions, then you seriously need to update your knowledge about the importance of thyroid in the life of a woman.
It’s particularly important for reproductive health, easy conception and a healthy pregnancy.
Thyroid plays an important part in each and every stage of a woman’s life, let’s take a look how.
During puberty
Malfunction of the thyroid can make your puberty to begin too late or too early. If the menstruation cycle may not begin at the right age, you should stop wondering, and get yourself tested for thyroid disorders. Even the development of breasts may not begin at the right time.
During Teenage
During teenage and even through later life malfunctioning of the thyroid can lead to several menstruation related problems, like heavy bleeding, irregular periods or the complete absence of menstrual periods. Some times the bleeding may be so excessive that it may leave the patient anemic.
Reproduction and pregnancy
Ovulation is also highly affected by the over functioning or under functioning of the thyroid, which can create problems for you when you want to conceive and have a baby. In some cases there may be absolutely no ovulation, and what’s even weird is that milk production may begin in the breasts even without ovulation. While ovulation is one area of concern, the other concern is the formation of cysts in the ovaries, owing to as under-active thyroid.
Besides posing problems in conception, a malfunctioning thyroid can cause severe damage to the fetus, that’s if you happen to conceive somehow.
Menopause
Thyroid problem can cause menopause to arrive too soon, that’s even before you hit 40. Also, having a malfunctioning thyroid will double your chances of getting osteoporosis, if you’re above 40.
Besides these specific problems that you may face during each phase of your life, you will experience hot flushes, sleeplessness, mood swings which are commonly associated with thyroid disorder. Also it’s worth mentioning here that a malfunctioning thyroid can make you a cardiac patient, by juggling your cholesterol and lipid levels and by causing the heart to overwork.
