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| Mon, 01-31-2005 - 4:26pm |
Hi everyone. I have posted here, long ago.
I am 33 - was hyper - had radioactive iodine treatment for that about 3 yrs ago. Struggled for balance - now on cytomel and sythroid. I was having a great deal of hair loss when i changed my sythroid to a generic - but switched back and the hair loss seems to have cut back.
I have lost over 10 pounds recently and just feel great!!! Energy is back up and I feel "normal" again!!! After going from a hyper to hypo - oh the difference is unreal!!! One day I thought I could leap tall buildings with a single bound, the next the snails and turtles were leaving me in their dust!!!
Anyhoo!!! I just spoke with my gp - who now treats me and she gave me my tsh number ; its at .040 - she says it should be 2.0 and they want me to go back to an endo and have it adusted!!! Well - im not!!! This is the first time in 3 YEARS that I am feeling good - I am not having hyper symtoms like before (excessive sweating, rapid heartbeat etc.) So, should I worry about this? Im not wanting to screw with my meds right now...
Advice???
Thanks
The HardWay

Hi and welcome back - I'm glad you're feeling so much better after all you've been through! The lower range for hypothyroidism is 0.3 - anything below that is hyper - anything above 3.0 is hypothyroid. So ... it seems to me that you are just at the bottom limit of the lower range. If you're feeling great, there shouldn't be any reason to change your medication but you need to consider a couple of things. If your tsh drops lower, it might be sudden and you might not feel as good as you do right now. Then you're going to need an endo, whereas now, everything is great for you and there's no emergency.
The time to see an endo is when you aren't in a crisis! Because it can take as long as 3 months to get an appointment.
The other thing to consider is that even though you feel great, most endos keep a "normal" tsh between 1.0 and 2.0, so you're pretty well below that. There might not be any problem at all with that but there might be issues that you aren't feeling, like your blood pressure, heart rate, etc. The decision is yours, of course, but it's my own opinion that it wouldn't hurt to see the endo and in the long run, it will be good to have a specialist that knows you, in case you need them!! And besides, a good doctor will listen to all to everything that's going on with you, not just take a look at your tsh level. Hope this helps. Cathy :)