Bi polar disorder and the thyroid

For those who do not know there is a connection between your thyroid and bipolar. You see the thyroid controls your mood and secretes chemicals to keep it balanced when these become unbalanced then issues start to arise. Bipolar disorder is one of these chemical imbalances and it can cause either a hyper or hypothyroid. A hyper thyroid secretes too little of the chemicals and thus can cause you to become depressed and can cause effects that include weight gain, feeling cold, and decreased apetite. A hypothyroid causes you to become more manic, but have less energy so you want to sleep all the time and stomach issues as well as hair falling out, weight loss,and you will have an increased appetite. Due to affecting your thyroid a lot of bipolar patients have had to have their thyroid removed at a certain point in time due to the imbalance causing disease and other things in it. Thus it is important to keep track of how your thyroid is behaving even while being medicated for the disorder.