thyroiditis

[GinnyB]

Anyone have any experience with thyroiditis?  I was diagnosed with that recently.  Thought I had Graves, but uptake scan with radioactive pill was showing hypothyroid.  I have been having horribly achy joints, fatigue, dizziness, sed rate elevated and now my most recent blood tests show TSH 0.03, FT3 4.2, normal with cut-off 4.9, and FT4 2.54 with cut-off 1.54, elevated.  I just feel lousy and hope this will go away soon.  I go back to the doctor December 12th.  Anyone have any thoughts on this?

GinnyB

[mshypo]

historically, the average dose of armour was between 3 to 5 grains.  Dr. Mark has previously stated that is a high dose nowadays, but I know lots of folks who actually take more and do great.  I guess it depends on the doctor and whether he/she pays more attention to the labs or the person's symptoms.  A grain is 60 mg. so your doctor is wanting you to take 4 grains. In some circles, that would be considered an average dose and probably close to a full replacement dose.

[allisonl]

thank you for your response. this whole process is so confusing and i hope one day this information will be considered more mainstream.

[allisonl]

I was wondering what that high dose of armour is. i am currently taking 300 mg of thyrolar and am going to switch to armour. my doctor wants to start me at 240mg of armour and i was curious because i dont want to start feeling worse. i too have a very low tsh 002 with a high t3 and in range t4. the numbers drive me crazy but i am grateful that i have an understanding doctor.
i was also wondering how i could have had elevated antibodies and now the labs are in the normal range. does anyone know if that is normal for hasimoto thyroiditis?

[Chocobabe]

Yes, I remember having hyper like symptoms at times. I would swing between hypo and hyper.  I never really had control over it all until I was switched to Armour and got my dose high enough to completely rid myself of all those symptoms. I now have a very suppressed TSH, which my doc explains to me isn't a problem since I feel so good.

[GinnyB]

Zbignew4112:

What is the condition you mentioned?  I started off with both high FT3 and FT4 with low TSH?

Ginny

[Zbignew4112]

Hi,

this is hyperthyreosis! TSH low, T4 high. Are you under treatment? Take care.

Zbignew4112

[GinnyB]

Well unfortunately we are still trying to nail down exactly what is driving my thyroid problem?  I go back on the 12th.  I am wondering if my thyroid is normalizing, as my tremor is really almost nonexistent and I noticed I am getting all these little hairs growing back in on my hairline.  I have been losing hair for 3 years now.  Hope I'm not going to go back and forth between hypo and hyper too.

Ginny

[Mark Lupo, M.D.]

Thyroiditis means inflammation of the thyroid.  In cases of hypothyroidism the thyroiditis is typically chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (Hashimoto

[Chocobabe]

Me! Me! I had it. I identify with the achy joints, fatigue--even the elevated sed rate. I was put on Levothyoxine, but changed docs and she put me on Armour, which has worked a LOT better for me than T4-only meds like Synthroid. I finally have everything under control, which didn't seem to happen on the other med. Good luck!

[GinnyB]

Were you hyperthyroid with your thyroiditis?  I feel absolutely horrible.  So tired.  Can't work right now.

Ginny