Can you describe your symptoms with hashimotos?

[Brucergoldberg]

One of the main things my friends always ask me is how do I feel?   I try to use words to describe how I feel with this illness.   Words can not describe regardless of how I hard I try.

Can you?

[kl42]

if your noticing improvements that's good. takes a while to level out.  I'm a little hyper now. dose was reduced. i don't sleep well. still have some ringing in my ears  not too bad.  but i know i'll start the new dose tomorrow. and it will take at minimum a month to re-level. hopefully symtoms will reduce as the levels drop and level out.  plus you probable are still healing in-your body now as you get you thyroid levels back up into the normal range so that will take some time. what was last tsh  free t3 ? all that? was it still low, it takes time. mine was (TSH)0.09 last time it will take some time to slowly reduce just as your will slowly raise . so  all im saying is is good that your feeling better and you'll feel better as time goes on. your on the right road. just a pain in A@@ slow road .but it gets easier and easier to wait as you feel better and better.  so hang in there. Kevin

[Brucergoldberg]

Chronic back pain was my first symptom.  When I get really bad my back hurts.   I've had two rhizotomys.

[bigsissie]

I am new to all of this. I was just diagnosed with Hashi's in February. But I do want to ask, Can anyone even remember what normal felt like. I can't. A lot of the problems I have been blaming on my back and I am now thinking it is my thyroid causing them. I have been in and out of several doctors over the past ten years and just kept getting told your back is fine we don't know why you hurt or what is going on. I am hoping, thanks to some great advice from people on here, that I can at least get some relief. I think all of my friends are sick of hearing about my thyroid. Every time I learn something I tell them and they just kinda get a blank look and my husband has flat out told me at one point that he thought my doctor was a quack and there was nothing wrong with my thyroid. I then had to go explain my test results to him but I still don't think he understands. Sorry about the rant lol. I just got to where I tell people I've been better but I've been worse too. That covers most of my problems and I no longer get the glazed look.   Good luck to you all!!!

[Brucergoldberg]

you get that too?   You are right as i notice it more because my job is sitting in front of my computer all day in a quiet room.   Its still not normal kevin.   Something isnt right.  Before you kept telling me to take thyroid.  Now im on day 46 and taking .75!  The stupid ear ringing is worse and then so is the anxiety issue.  Its nothing like before when i took it, but still pretty bad.

[kl42]

cold just be the morning ,  i know its not scientific , but i think your full of energy inthe morning  and as you get going burn some off you level out a little bit, i feel the same way most days,  but im up and running most days so i don't notice it so much any more.

[Brucergoldberg]

Question for everyone -

I take my tirosint in the morning and for the first part of the morning I feel very anxious as if i drank too much coffee.

I know that the theory is that T4 pools and that if you took just one t4 it wouldnt do anything, but i disagree to some extent.

Before i started the treatment i had this weird deal that I always felt crappy around 2:30, felt better as the day went on.   Now it seems to be worse as im on t4.

I want to start testosterone eventually but im still afraid there is something being overlooked.

bruce