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[anxious09]

hi everyone, been battling with Hashimotos since i was 19 yrs old. been on thyroxine ever since.
got through 3 pregnancies without problems but now last blood tests showed my tsh was elevated, at 2.6 and so my doc upped my dose to 0.1 monday to Saturday and 0.5 on Sunday. I suspected something was wrong since i was gaining weight by the minute, so to speak, and i suffered from depression .

i spoke to a very good friend of mine she is a neurologist and she prescribed half buspar to help with anxiety and panic issues. well question is this : i don't eat that much and i try to walk about everywhere but i can't seem to shift the pds. it's getting me sooooo down and since our financial situation is not the best my diet options are limited.

pls any advice on foods i can eat and what is the best exercising on an empty stomach or not?

i also suffer occasionally from gerd.

I am currently 66kgs with 1.65 cm height (was 64 3 days ago)!!!

I cry alllll the time. plse help

recent labs :

blood sugar  : 97mg/dl
t4 110,8 mg /dl
tsh 2,610

i don't eat pizza or junk food at all. my main diet is meat, nuts, eggs , multigrain breads and occasionally fruit(bad i know) i also love broccolli and brussell sprouts.

i am developing an eating disorder i can tell!!!

tks

[anxious09]

thanks very much for your time and I'll start reading it immy!!!

[gimel]

From all those hypo symptoms, I'd say that you are under medicated.  To confirm this you need to be tested for Free T3 and Free T4 (not Total T3 and T4, and also Reverse T3.  TSH is a pituitary hormone that is affected by so many things that at best it is only an indicator to be considered along with more important indicators such as symptoms and also levels of the biologically active thyroid hormones, Free T3 and Free T4.  Of these Free T3 is the most important because it largely regulates metabolism and many other body functions.  Scientific studies have shown that Free T3 correlated best with hypo symptoms while Free T4 and TSH did not correlate at all.

Hypo patients are also frequently too low in the ranges for other important areas as well.  I suggest that when you go back for more tests, you should also test for Vitamin D, B12 and ferritin.  When test results are available, please get a copy and post results and their ranges shown on the lab report and members will be glad to help interpret and advise further.  Be aware that Free T3 and Free T4 results that are in the lower half of their ranges are frequently associated with still being hypo.  Members frequently say that symptom relief for them required that Free T3 was adjsuted into the upper third of its range and Free T4 adjusted to around the middle of its range.

A good thyroid doctor will treat a hypo patient clinically by testing and adjusting Free T3 and Free T4 as necessary to relieve symptoms, without being constrained by resultant TSH levels.  You can get some good insight into clinical treatment from this letter written by a good thyroid doctor for patients that he sometimes consults with after initial tests and evaluation.  The letter is then sent to the participating doctor of the patient to help guide treatment.  In the letter, please note the statement, "the ultimate
criterion for dose adjustment must always be the clinical response of the patient."

http://hormonerestoration.com/files/ThyroidPMD.pdf