Still not feeling good on T4 and T3

I have been very sick with lots of pain for 11 years i am 48 since then, I have a child with Autism. I will make this short since I typed a long message and lost it. (my computer messed up) I am now  taking Nature thyroid  a natural  T3 and T4 medication and feel better than I have in a long time(although I feel medication needs to  be ajusted and right now I have no moneyi and no insurance until I can afford to pay for some insurance). I have been to about 50 or more doctors. I have lost my home, car ect.I would have just given it all up for my health if someone asked for all the material things. ( to top it all off I was a very very busy hair stylist and have not been able to do that job due to it being so  physical and do not really have a income. I went from making 6 figures to almost 0) I would love to Blog about my experience but I am no writer so anyone with writing skills that would like to help me I sure would appreciate it. I have literaly lost everything including my health since this bad surgery. ( doctors talked me into  having the surgery first of all. I came from under with no thyroid and no  parathyroids I dont know much about how to read the TSH levels but I have experienced most ofall synthroid levels of medication they make lots of money from insurance companies I do know that and from what I understand doctors get somthing back from synthroids manufacture. YOu are very young and need your health. If I could answer any questions please feel free to respond. God Bless you!!!!!!

Hello, theres one more thing I  would like to add to my prior message. All of my clients where very successful women. Doctors, nurses, lawyers, professional football players wives, Judges wives, Pastors wives and more.........My client that was a doctor at the time worked with this fool coinsidentallymy client was a Internal medicine doctor and her friend that was a Endocronologist whom in return told me this surgeon was distroying others lives just the same and I felt helpless. My clients friend basically told me the surgeon we used messed up the surgery and my client told me never to give up on trying to bring attention to that surgeon because she knew I  was a strong person and woud never give up on doing what she asked me. I have so much more to share. I know my life is a great book if I could find a ghost writer to work with me. 

I was on Synthetic Thyroid meds for years and always had bad symptoms that I learned to live with.  Last year they became so bad I switched to Natural meds and 90% of my symptoms dissappeared.  Your body needs more than just T3 and T4.  Natural meds have everything you need and they're cheaper!  I pay $2.74 for 30 day supply and I feel so much better.  I'm on Nature Throid which works great.  My symptoms are down to one or two which I can live with gratefully.  I have been on Thyroid forums for years now and the majority of folks that switch to natural feel much better.  I hope this helps you.  I was at the end of my rope when I switched and wished I'd done it much sooner.  

Hi sammi, from my own experience, it sounds like you may be on slightly too much of something due to hyper symptoms and low Tsh. If it was me I would ask the doctor about reducing the t4 slightly (as I always found t3 was the one that made me feel better and T4 didn't do much for me).

The dose you are on generally seems quite high (but this does vary from person to person with size, weight, cause of hypothyroidism etc.).

If you still feel lousy, then maybe you should look into NDT which is a natural combination of thyroid hormones. I am assuming you are currently taking synthetic? The only downside is that this isn't available on the NHS so I personally discussed this with a private endocrinologist

Hope this helps and you start feeling better soon.

Hello Sammi:

My name is Shelly and I am a nurse in the USA.  I have Hashimoto's disease, since 1987.

Your last TSH was on the low end of the scale which makes you look like Hyperthyroid.  So maybe your dose is too high and should be reduced by 25%.

You may have what I had a problem with Synthetic's like T4 LEVO.  I could not absorb it well.  I am only on T3 Liothyronine.  You may want to try NDT.  I am told NHS will not prescribe it because it is off patent.

It is a natural hormone made from a pig's gland.  This is very close to ours.

So ask your doctor if you can either reduce the 100mcg levo or go onto another med.

Keep us posted,

Shelly