Goiter symptoms

Symptoms of Goiter  

Goiter is a swelling that you notice in your neck. This is the thyroid gland, which has swollen. Goiter is caused due to a deficiency of iodine in your body.


Goiter is a fairly common disease which affects more women than men. Initially a person suffering from goiter notices that she has periods when she is emotionally upset. With time, these upsets increase in their duration.


Other symptoms are weeping and feelings of depressions, and an inability to concentrate. The patient is edgy and seems close to a nervous breakdown. Patients also lose weight rapidly and their eyes begin to bulge out. In addition to this they notice tremors in their hands and a certain inability to perform any task requiring muscular effort.

With time the goiter becomes bigger causing the neck to look swollen. When the goiter becomes bigger it compresses the windpipe and the tube which we use to swallow. As a result of this people suffering from goiter develop symptoms like coughing, a feeling of being unable to breathe and also the fear that there are food particles stuck in the upper throat.  
Some goiters may disappear on their own while others are enlarged. When the thyroid tissue is destroyed, this leads to the development of hypothyroidism in patients.