aww..thank you, addiction is in your mind. I have a strong mind! Congrats on you being smoke free too. It feels good doesn't it?
congrats on the nonsmoking, I have been smoke free for 10 months. (used chantix for 2.5 months) this is when all my thyroid stuff started coming to the surface. so the moodiness, insomnia, dieting is all too familiar
keep up the good work, best decision you made, it is so bad to smoke and have thyroid issues. I am proud of you.
GW
I feel ok, they told me to split my pill in half every saturday. I have been dealing with this so long that I know when something is wrong. I went from being so tired I couldnt move to a moody insomniac. I cant wait to get this regulated. A lot has changed that couldve effected it in the last 6 weeks. I quit smoking, I stopped all my pain meds (which are known to enhance the hypo, and started to eat lo-carb and work out. I started taking my meds everyday too (which I have a history of forgetting for a day or 2 at a time) We will find out in a few weeks. Thank you all for the advise. This is a new doctor for me so he is just now learning my body.
Agreed.
get the Tgab testing too.
Get your thyroglobulin levels checked - ASAP!!!
Sorry ................ no nothing else is happening except and adjustment on thyroid
I am not apologizing for my comment above - but I am saying sorry to you for not really answering all your questions.
Personally - (and this will be my last rant on your doctor... I promise) I'd like for "it" to come to me and I'd shove a hormone in that large of a quanity down their thoats and see if they respond badly.
OK - back to being nice :)
Honey - I would think twice about that practice and see if you could get better care.
Bluntly I feel your doctor is nuts!!
300mcg Synthroid is killer on the body and symptoms and to drop that fast in 6 wks could be a nasty ordeal. I feel it is medical suicide to force the body to adjust that fast.
What an idiot!
Bet he/or she didn't even run a Free T3 or a Free T4 either right?
ABSOLUTELY NUTS!!!
300 mcg of levothyroxine is a pretty substantial dose, so it really isn't surprising your TSH has dropped so dramatically. You have swung all the way from severe hypothyroidism to hyperthyroidism. How do you feel?
You probably need to have a dosage change (decrease). If you start to feel poorly, you might want to ask the doc to move up the blood test, or at least ask if they can decrease your dose (they might say yes!) before 3 weeks is up.