The actress recently said that she had a ‘totally unregulated thyroid’; doctors comment on the case
More common in women, it is necessary to remain alert to symptoms when there is a problem with the. That’s what happened recently to the actress, current participant of Big Brother Brasil 25 (). Last year, Vitoria, 28, published a video saying that she was feeling very weak, tired and sad and that, for her, it was all indisposition. But, after a medical consultation, he reported that his thyroid was “completely unregulated”.
She said that “I kind of already knew I had a problem with my thyroid, but I was letting it go, I was fooling myself” and, after a medical consultation, the result came: changes in the thyroid that cause all these sensations: “Sometimes, tiredness can be confused with sadness, extreme tiredness. Then you think it’s a mental health thing and it’s a physical thing, like a thyroid, that’s causing this fatigue. So the body is all integrated, it’s all talking to each other… Sometimes I’m not talking to it”, he reflected.
Head and neck surgeon and thyroid specialist, Erivelto Volpi, reinforces that symptoms such as tiredness, weakness, loss of muscle strength and dry skin “may be related to hypothyroidism, when the thyroid produces less thyroid hormone than the body needs (… ) the diagnosis is easily made with blood tests and ultrasound!”.
Antônio Rahal, an interventional radiologist specializing in thyroid, reinforces that women – and also men – need to keep an eye on symptoms such as tiredness, discouragement, weakness, weight gain or loss and consult a doctor: “There is a lot of talk about breast diseases , prostate, skin cancer, depression, but little about the thyroid, which is the balance gland in our body! It’s shaped like a butterfly, so I like to say it’s our butterfly of balance!”
Vitória Strada’s possible case of hypothyroidism is an example that it is necessary to keep an eye on the symptoms and see a doctor regularly. “Treating the dysfunction can restore the patient’s quality of life”, point out the doctors.
