What are the effects of elevated thyroid stimulating hormone?

High levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone are a condition that many people have experienced in daily life, and its occurrence has a huge impact on human health. But what effect does it have on the human body? Most people don't quite understand this. In fact, there are nine kinds of harms that high thyroid-stimulating hormone can cause to the human body. The first harm is that it can lead to functional failure and endanger life.

1. Functional failure, life-threatening: Hypothyroidism can cause patients to experience slow heart rate, weak heart sounds, and generalized heart enlargement, often accompanied by pericardial effusion, and myocardial fiber swelling after hypothyroidism. Without proper care, the patient will suffer from coma, cardiac arrhythmia or heart failure and die.

2. Affecting fertility and fetal birth defects: Male patients with hypothyroidism suffer from impotence, testicular atrophy, and sexual dysfunction; female patients with hypothyroidism suffer from irregular menstruation, reduced menstruation, or even amenorrhea, resulting in infertility. Pregnant women are prone to premature birth, miscarriage, fetal maldevelopment or stillbirth, and the newborns are prone to cerebral palsy.

3. Pale complexion, puffy eyelids and cheeks, apathetic expression, dementia, dry, thickened, rough and scaly skin all over the body, non-pitting edema, hair loss, sallow hands and feet, weight gain, and a few patients have thick and brittle nails.

4. Neuropsychiatric system: memory loss, mental retardation, drowsiness, slow reaction, anxiety, dizziness, headache, tinnitus, deafness, nystagmus, ataxia, slow tendon reflexes, prolonged Achilles tendon reflex time. In severe cases, dementia, stupor, and even coma may occur.

5. Cardiovascular system: bradycardia, decreased cardiac output, low blood pressure, dull heart sounds, enlarged heart, and coronary heart disease may occur, but angina pectoris and heart failure generally do not occur. Sometimes it may be accompanied by pericardial effusion and pleural effusion. In severe cases, myxedema cardiomyopathy may occur.

6. Digestive system: anorexia, abdominal distension, constipation. In severe cases, paralytic intestinal obstruction may occur. The gallbladder contraction weakens and becomes enlarged. Half of the patients suffer from gastric acid deficiency, which leads to pernicious anemia and iron deficiency anemia.

7. Musculoskeletal system: muscle weakness, pain, and stiffness, which may be accompanied by joint diseases such as chronic arthritis.

8. Endocrine system: Women suffer from menorrhagia, amenorrhea due to long-term illness, and infertility; men suffer from impotence and decreased libido. A few patients may experience lactation and secondary pituitary enlargement.

9. When the condition is serious, myxedema coma may be induced by stress such as cold, infection, surgery, anesthesia or improper use of sedatives, which is manifested as hypothermia (T<35°C), slowed breathing, bradycardia, decreased blood pressure, relaxation of limb muscles, weakened or disappeared reflexes, and even coma, shock, heart and kidney failure.

The above is an introduction to the dangers of high thyroid stimulating hormone. Once these dangers occur, our normal life will be disrupted and may cause some adverse diseases. We must control these hazards in time, and remember to improve the phenomenon of high thyroid stimulating hormone in time. Pregnant women are especially prone to this phenomenon and need timely treatment, otherwise it will cause great harm to the fetus.