IS THIS HOW YOU FEEL WITH HYPOTHYROIDISM?

[Brucergoldberg]

Hey guys,  lets compare notes.

I was diagnosed with hashimotos a year ago.  I was on a small dose of levo, which was increased 9 days ago to .050.  The Dr. told me that once my tsh gets to 2.0 i will feel normal. my Tsh last checked 9 days ago was 7.93.  T3 was low too.

So I go to bed about 10 pm after I drink about 2 small beers.  I wake up about 9 am and My ears are ringing off the hook.  I feel horrible. I do not want to get out of bed.  I am still exhausted. I take my LEVO and I lay there for about 30 minutes.

9:30 I roll out of bed.  I am EXHAUSTED.   Im foggy, im shakey.  My wife asks me if I want anything to eat, I decline.  I grab a water bottle and I drive to the gym.  At the gym I feel HORRID.  I dont have any energy.  I sometimes will stand there and look at a machine and think "next time".

So I get my half hour at the gym, i head home. I go home and eat something small and I lay on the floor for the next two hours and think to myself "I wonder if the 900 doctors I saw missed something".

2:00 PM -  I start to feel better, I know have a little energy, I play with my kids as much as i can because I know any minute im going to feel crappy again.

8:00 PM -  Ears are now ringing again, im foggy again, im shakey, and I just want to lay down on the floor and I have to tell my wife I dont feel good.

10:00  I finished a glass of beer and im heading to bed.   It was a very joyful day, I felt acceptable (not good) for 8 hours.

Am I fooling myself thinking this is one day going to get better?  Why Do I feel so crappy in the morning?  Should I take my medicine earlier?  Am I not taking enough? Is it something else?

BRuce

[LIZZIE LOU]

excellent observation abby51.

[abby51]

Whenever I have a change in my thyroid medication, which I have been taking for almost 20 years now, I need to wait a couple months before I really notice a difference. It is not something that happens overnight, or maybe not in a week or even two weeks.

Relax a little...maybe that will help to not be so stressed out about it. I know, easier said than done! Since you say a lot of the symptoms happen at the same time of day everyday it may be stress related because you are expecting those symptoms to happen. You have "programmed" yourself to expect those things at the same time everyday. Maybe that is when you should take the long walks in the park as mentioned by someone else!!

[Brucergoldberg]

I took levo for 6 weeks.  Actually felt worse, hardly able to function.  Horrible times.

[abby51]

If you do not give your body time to adjust to the thyroid medicine, which means you need to take it for more than a couple of days, then you will never feel or get better. It can be as simple as you need to take the medication or feel horrible. If you give your body time to adjust to the medication then you may be surprised that one day you do feel better.  Also, you need to stop self treating by starting and stopping medications as you deem necessary. All that does is cause additional problems. Anyone reading your posts can see that is what you are doing. Others have on here have told you the same things though.

Maybe you need to see someone for depression as well (and that is not meant to be mean or sound mean).

[Brucergoldberg]

The endocrinilogist.  I was actually on the testosterone about 4 months ago when i was taking thyroid but it made everything much worse.  i didnt realize it at the time that this is what was causing a lot of my symptoms.  Think inability to take thyroid x 2  because I was getting a lot of the symptoms from taking the testosterone as i was the thyroid.  So I thought i would try once again (with my doctors approval) to take the testosterone but this time WITHOUT thyroid, but it did the same thing to me as it did before.  Just in one day I had all the symptoms back.  

[stella5349]

Who suggested taking the testosterone?