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You were lucky to find a doctor willing to go with Armour. Most just want to give you Levothyroid or Synthroid and call it a day. I did better on Armour than Synthroid, but I do even better still with separate pills for T4 and T3. I take Levothyroxine (generic T4) and liothyronine (T3). Using separate pills, rather than just Armour (which contains T4 and T3 combined in one set ratio), my doctor and I can adjust the T3 amount up or down to get it balanced with the way my body converts T4 to T3. My numbers are great, and my symptoms are very few. I try to keep my TSH as close to zero as I can, although my doc is sort of non-committal about her feelings on that issue. I don't think she's happy with it, but I am. She knows I've had it (Hashimoto's) for so long I know almost as much as she does about it. Sometimes with Armour, or other brands of natural thyroid like Naturthroid, I found I would get hair loss even though my numbers looked good, so I know it's not in the right T4:T3 ratio for my body. Internet forums rave that you must get on Armour, but it's not the perfect ratio for everyone.
Remember, if you are female and over about 50, your temperature problems are as likely to be menopausal in origin as they are to be thyroid.
Armour or Syntroid - same for me. My nails and hair are okay now and I am not sleeping all day anymore.
However, I am still constantly napping, cold, shivering, sweating, tired, forget everything, brain fog. I have that since 20 years now, it is not menopausal.
I used to belong to a different message board for Thyroid issues and many of the posters there often referenced this lady for information.
Treatment for thyroid issues is more or less standard care, but there are weird little idiosyncrasies that can come up.
Understand your blood work and learn what works best for you.
My hypothyroid was diagnosed when I was being checked for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. My numbers are normal now with levothyroxine, but I feel much better when they are on the lower range of normal. When I'm off my meds...ugh...I feel like crap.
You may not even notice symptoms now because you are used to feeling the way you do. After you are more regulated, you may realize how many symptoms you actually had.
I redid my test and now the TSH is at 21 (the first one done about 10 days ago was at 29)
T4 levels are the same at .6. I fasted for the first, did not for the second. I also stopped biotin for 48 hours before second, did not do so for first. Not clear if this much variation is just over a week is normal
Hi, I haven’t started on the medication yet. That’s why it is puzzling to me how it came down by so much without me doing anything about it
What did you do to make it go up?
Probably nothing, it was reacting to something (in my case, I had a bad infection that we assume caused the rise), and now that has gone, it's coming back down.
Biotin, prescription medications, supplements, diet, pregnancy, fasting or not fasting can all effect the results. Take your medication at the same time every day and stay consistent with testing with same lab and fasting or not
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