Hashimotos is making my life a misery
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Hi, I was diagnosed with an under active thyroid in 1994. A couple of years later I was also diagnosed with Hashimotos. I have been on levothyroxine 100 micrograms daily for around 20 years (started on 75 in 1994 then dosage upped). I am female, 58 and weigh between 10.3 - 10.6 stone. This varies on a daily basis. Every night I am drenched with sweats to the extent that I keep a towel by the bed. This has been going on for around 7 years. Originally I thought it was the menopause as my periods stopped at 52, but it is still going on probably even more so. This of course disturbs my sleep and even if I do get a few consecutive hours I am always tired the next day. If I am not working (I am freelance) then I usually have to go for a lie down by 3pm as I am exhausted. I eat a mostly gluten free diet, chicken and fish but no red meat. Loads of fruit and veg, and I avoid dairy sticking to goats milk and cheese, almond and soya milk. I have high cholesterol and a vitamin D deficiency and have recently started taking vitamin D supplements. The cholesterol results annoyed me as my diet is good, I believe this is partly due to taking levothyroxine. I also exercise regularly. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how I can increase my energy levels and STOP the night sweats?
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frances24492 psj123
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Firstly Levothyroxine is not and never will be the perfect med the doctors like to claim ...it simply does not work for many people because its only synthetic T4 and not everyone can convert it into T3 or the T2 T1 and calcitnonin that a normal thyroid produces
all the Hashimotos in my family are only well on Natural Dessicated Thyroid ...(.they tried every dosages of levo, every combo of levothyroxine and T3 but nothing made them feel well ) yet when they switched to NDT bit by bit they recovered