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Should have asked for community advice a long time ago as things have just gone from bad to worse. I don’t have my full blood work with me today, but a post is long overdue because I just feel so down.
My last TSH was 1.3 and since then I have upped my daily medication to 125mg Thyroxin (from 100) at my doctor’s recommendation to combat excessive weight gain.
1.3 TSH felt hyper for me and now I am sure I have gone too far as I am exhausted, have joint pain, am loosing heaps of hair, am angry and am depressed.
When I first became hyper the doctor misdiagnosed the symptoms as postpartum depression which was *****. But not long after that I could see a lump in my throat and I had a TSH of 14 and those symptoms were similar to the ones I have now.
I have been getting bloods every 6 weeks and the journey from hyper to hypo has been mostly about weight. But now I have exploded into unhappiness. I was on a T3/T4 combo and didn’t feel bad on that but stopped because I put on a lot of weight in the 8 weeks I was on it.
The best I felt was when I was on100mcg carbmizole to bring my TSH down from 14. This was heaven and I lost heaps of weight. It was only for 4 weeks and post operation my TSH was 5.4. I then went straight onto hypo treatment and haven’t been right since.
I honestly thought having more T4 would be good.
I just want to go off my medication for a while and be a good Mum to my small kids.
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marieC m45825
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Does your GP know how you are feeling? With hormones, it can be really difficult to get the balance right, so it may take some time to find the medication and dose that is right for you, it probably just needs tweeking.
Going off the medication completely may be just as bad, evedn if you are going the natural route.
I would go back to your GP and see if it can be sorted out satisfactorily, but definitely let him know that is how you are feeling, hopefully he is sympathetic and will do his best to get you on an even keel.
Good luck. I really hope you can get this sorted and start to feel better.
Marie
m45825 marieC
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brewster121044 m45825
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m45825 brewster121044
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Thanks for your response.
brewster121044 m45825
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marey m45825
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thats crazy ...at around 1.. you were perfect.
anyway you re aiming to get your tsh down...heard vit D3 and k2 together...or even just d alone ...is good for that.
brewster hi!
thanks so much for your help earlier...have been on the facebook i set up but don't otherwise use ...but can't see how to make contact with anyone or how to move around. would you try to say hi to me on there? xx
m45825 marey
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marey m45825
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we're all in this together...you can do it. have you listened to the thyroid summit? that was amazing!
yes i know what you mean!! but its kinda fun...you're dropping in all the cool words!!
brewster121044 marey
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