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Why do people get puffiness of the face with Hashimoto's? So puffiness of the face is, it's not that common and so it's a question that I don't get that often, but I thought it would be good to answer anyway. Just as a different aspect of Hashimoto's. So, puffiness of the face is called myxedema M Y X E D E M A myxedema. And it means that you're getting edema. Edema is puffiness because water is being absorbed into the skin. You have sugars in your skin, different chemical sugars in your skin. And under certain circumstances, those sugars will start to absorb water. And so one of the main reasons that it happens in the face is hypothyroidism. Most hypothyroidism we now know is Hashimoto's. So basically slows everything down, water fluids, not being, not going, not being processed properly through your system.

You have this excess sugar in your system, probably also because that's not getting processed properly because of the hypothyroidism. The sugar attracts the water, excuse me, and the water gets into the skin. And the next thing you know, you have all this puffiness. The interesting thing would be a more common question would be, why do I get myxedema of my shins? In our examinations we always look at a persons shins and ankles to see if they have swelling around the shins and they have edema. Now, edema just for the record, is if you push your finger in there like this, and you go like that, and this indentation that you made stays there, it doesn't go, it doesn't elastically pop back. That's an evaluative procedure to determine whether the person has to myxedema.

Most of the time, we see it on the ankles where there are other things that cause it on the ankles, hypothyroid is almost one of the few things that caused it in the face. And so you press in on that puffiness on your ankle and if it just stays there, then you have myxedema. And if you have the suspicion of thyroid, there's a good chance that the thyroid is connected to that too. So it's something not that common, but it does happen, that's what it is. It is totally part of the whole Hashimoto's is slowing down all the physiology, slowing down the processing of your water, slowing down the processing of your sugar, slowing down the processing of your lymph, which is obliquely related to what I just got done saying. And that's why you get, that's why you get myxedema with Hashimoto's.

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