You MUST have TPO antibodies tested; this is how Hashimoto's is diagnosed...you thyroid antibody levels (antibodies are fighting and destroying your thyroid hormones) tell what is going on on a deeper level regarding why your levels are hypothyroid...TSH may be "normal" but if your antibodies are out of control there is more to pay attention to. I would definitely find a specialist, but many of us thyroid sufferers are convening on the web for support. Look up Magdalena Wzelaki, she is a self-studied thyroid expert and I have learned a lot from her. Don't give up! I am having the painful peeling too, even my brown skin color sometimes peels off to pink! It's embarrassing and I don't offer that hand when I greet someone.
Yes, I did have all of those tests even revers T3, all within range (even healthy range)
Will go to thyroid forum. thanks for your input.
hello! i thought a dermatologist would be able to point to a thing or two pretty quickly with symptoms like that! anyway - yes - hashimotos and thyroid things - dry skin is a hypothyroid symptom. just go to the THYROID FORUM and ask there - someone there hopefully can explain better than i can, about the complete batch of thyroid tests that you need to find a dr to run. you can have test results that show normal, but
possibly because it's an incomplete set of tests. need TSH, T4, T3, and the more telling tests, FT4 and (FT3(?)) - and if dr is v thorough, reverse t3 i think...
good luck. thyroidisms are hell