¿ How to speed up the alleviation of my symptoms ?

[dolbydriver]

One year ago , after a marathon , I got very tired and groggy , but I was putting on my hemorrhoids of that moment . After a 8 months my doctor find that my TSH was at 29 , twenty nine , with free T4 and T3 in low normal range , so he put me on medication . Just 25 micrograms of levothyroxine  . After 10 weeks my TSH is at 21 , twenty one , the symptoms are still here , and I change the medication to 75 , because with the minimum dose I need a year to come back . My question is that I don´t know what´s the regular speed of download the TSH and-or , most important , the symptoms . Thanks .

[dolbydriver]

But is quiet difficult to get all of this . Here they don´t use T3 , just T4 nothing more . FT3 I will try to test . I think that maybe the TSH level must be even lower then 1.53 . Today the endo told me that the most important lab value in hypo is the TSH . Maybe with levo 75 I will get the energy I need , like before .


I have 3 months with the good lab , and I don´t think that something improved all this time . Maybe a little bit . Is hard to say if you are better or not .

[goolarra]

If possible, you should really get the results of all your thyroid lab work.  Be sure to get reference ranges as well since they vary lab to lab and country to country.  Ask your family doctor to test free T3.  If your doctor will prescribe iT3 meds, you can order it online.  

It is true that once labs look good, it takes time for us to heal after being hypo, and it can take symptoms a while to disappear.

[dolbydriver]

So the labs are good , at less this is what the docs are saying , but I still have the symptoms . Here in Spain , and maybe in all Europe , the treatment must be just with the thyroxine , no T3 . In a few weeks I will do another blood test , and also the scintigraphy if it worst for the hypos .

[dolbydriver]

I was this morning to the endo . She told me that the last lab was very good , and I must continue with the Levo 50 . That in the hospital if they have the TSH in his reference range they don´t care about T4 or less T3 . How I was for a long period of time right now I need also a while with good lab results to see symptom improvements , she tolds me . That are no antibodies present , to don´t worry . I am back to may family doc to get another appointment , and to get a new lab .
¿ Someone knows the thyroid scintigraphy will be a good check ?

[goolarra]

I understand that being sick for a long time is depressing and discouraging.  

Once FT4 levels stabilize (no more improvement is expected from the current dose), FT3 will often keep improving without changing dose.  After being hypo for a long time, it takes a while for conversion to ramp back up.  My FT4 stabilized, then my FT3 kept rising for months afterwards.  

Your FT4 looks good now, and I doubt that raising it will help you feel better.  Now, it's a matter of if FT3 will naturally improve (like mine did) or if you need to add some T3 meds in.  However, as I said, I don't think adding more T4 is going to help...your FT4 is already good.

[dolbydriver]

Yes , I am feeling a lot better , but still that symptoms that makes you impossible enjoy some experience . Also , in time one gets some disappointed about being sick for soo long . I have 90 kilos , 20 more that one year ago . So , the patience and to continue with 50 Eutirox , till june , when I will see the endo . And ¿ what do you mean a while for T4 to catch up the T3 ? Also I was hypo from years now , because high colesterol and erectile dysfunction , just naming two of them , was present . After the medication I see important improvement , the col blood test how I sad before comes good .