Can symptoms come and go?
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| Wed, 03-09-2005 - 3:38pm |
I had a baby 10 months ago and around 3 or 4 months afterwards, I started feeling depressed and tired all the time. I am bipolar, so my doc prescribed a new anti-dep thinking I was becoming depressed. I also too a thyroid test which was on the low side, but not "officially" low. So for a few months I am okay. Then I got what they said was phenumina (sp), very cold (body temp 96) tired ALL the time, horse voice. So they put me on meds, started feeling better after a few weeks, but not great. So recently, I started to feel the same symptoms and took a bunch of blood tests. Came back a little on the low side, but not officially low. The doc said it could be hypothyroid and to start synthroid. Is it possible for symptoms to come and go? Would a little on the low side give me such severe cold and tiredness? Thanks
Kristin

They should also test your free t3 and free t4. Which is sometimes not an easy task to have done. Most docs don't feel it's necessary.
The coldness went away, but that was because I was in Tucson! I still am having some problems, but the being cold all the time is better. As for taking the meds on an empty stomach, that has been a challenge! I love to eat and I have been waiting for one hour after I take the synthroid before I eat. My friend Debbie, the ICU nurse, told me she just gives all her patients their synthroid at 10 am weather the have eaten or not. As for my vitamins, I will have to take those after lunch along wtih my anti dep. As for being depressed, I have had this problem for 15 years and have gone yearly for thyroid checks becasue of the depression and family history of thyroid problems (my great grandmother died from complications due to hypo) and have always been very normal. Just this last 6 months my two blood tests came up normal but on the low side with a questionable TSH4. Fun, fun!
Kristin