“Sends shivers down my spine, body’s aching all the time” – Freddie Mercury (probably) wasn’t singing about thyroid dysfunction, but the lyrics fit the bill.
As with the other symptoms of an underactive thyroid – including lethargy, brain fog, weight gain, and low mood – feeling cold and having aching muscles and joints are unpleasant and can affect a person’s quality of life, but have myriad possible causes. So when patients present to their GP complaining of these symptoms, they and their doctors are led into a careful dance of trying to deduce the clinical origin.
