have been feeling bad for over a year. My symptoms are depression, fatigue, weight gain, dry skin, memory problems and a lot of difficulty concentrating. I also have high triglycerides, high platelet count and high blood calcium, and high blood pressure. My doctor's answer was to put me on Wellbutrin XL for the depression. The inital does was 150mg. a day. When I didn't feel better, he upped it to 300mg. a day. I am taking medicine for the blood pressure also. I also take estrogen due to total hysterectomy in 1992. I also have problems sleeping so he put me on Lunesta. I am tired of taking so many medications just to feel better. They don't help and I am spending so much money on them. I take pills to feel better, pills to make me sleep all without really getting to the reason I feel this way. I know that it is NOT depression making me feel so horrible.
I was taking synthoid until 5 years ago. My doctor at the time said I was borderline and didn't need it, so he took me off of it. My TSH has always fluctuated from one end of the range to another. Last month I had my blood work done and it showed my T-3 uptake as low. I called his office to discuss it and he said no treatment was needed. I feel like his answer to all my problems was to just give me a prescription for anti-depressants. From all the research I've done my symptoms point to hypothyroidism. Here are the results of my blood work:
T-3 Uptake - 21 L (don't really know what this means since there was no range listed.)
T-4, Total - 12.4, normal it said between 4.5-12.5 mcg/dl (getting different ranges from different sources)
Free T-4 Index - 2.6, normal is 1.4-3.8
TSH, 3rd Generation - 1.23, no ranges listed
Calcium - 10.4, normal in 8.6-10.2 mg/dL
platelet count - 457, normal 140-400
All my other lab work was normal. Today I went to a different doctor who ran the thyroid panel again, plus my cholesterol lab work. I will have the results on Tuesday. Can anyone please let me know if they have had the same experience with labs being normal but was actually hypothyroid?
Thanks