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swampymoo
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hi,
just thought it might be nice to join this group as I have been hypothyroid for at least 21 yrs (had thyroid antibodies as young as 8 yrs old) but its heriditary in our family.
I never seem to get the full benefit of my meds and have I dont think from memory that I have ever achieve normal range thyroid function.
My mother had radioactive irodine in the early 70s (hyper) and my sister (hyper) had a thyroidectomy. I have just been left to muddle along in my misery. But I find the best way is just to get on the best you can with what you have in life.
12 Months ago my thyrotropian TSH tests were 64 (yes sixty four) and currently 37 (normal is between 0.30 and 4.00. Its all quite challenging but such is life.
(Surprisingly at TSH of 68 I wasnt sent to see a specialist!)
I was swimming an hour of laps a day prior to xmas and lost 8 kg but regained it after taking time off virtually straight away, I started back swimming this week and while its exhausting at the end of the day, I love the exercise. Attitude is everything to me.
I dont believe it is impossible to reduce while hypothyroid just extremely challenging. I previously lost 70kg and regained 40 of those kgs.
So I am really motivated to lose it and banish those extra kilos for life. Go Me!!!
just thought it might be nice to join this group as I have been hypothyroid for at least 21 yrs (had thyroid antibodies as young as 8 yrs old) but its heriditary in our family.
I never seem to get the full benefit of my meds and have I dont think from memory that I have ever achieve normal range thyroid function.
My mother had radioactive irodine in the early 70s (hyper) and my sister (hyper) had a thyroidectomy. I have just been left to muddle along in my misery. But I find the best way is just to get on the best you can with what you have in life.
12 Months ago my thyrotropian TSH tests were 64 (yes sixty four) and currently 37 (normal is between 0.30 and 4.00. Its all quite challenging but such is life.
(Surprisingly at TSH of 68 I wasnt sent to see a specialist!)
I was swimming an hour of laps a day prior to xmas and lost 8 kg but regained it after taking time off virtually straight away, I started back swimming this week and while its exhausting at the end of the day, I love the exercise. Attitude is everything to me.
I dont believe it is impossible to reduce while hypothyroid just extremely challenging. I previously lost 70kg and regained 40 of those kgs.
So I am really motivated to lose it and banish those extra kilos for life. Go Me!!!
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First, welcome to the site!! Second -- WTF - how are your functioning with TSH that high and why haven't you fired your doctor and found one that will treat you properly? Not sure what country you are in -- but run, do not walk, to the nearest doctor that will agree to treat your symptoms. You can't even start to talk about losing weight or exercising if your thyroid levels are off the charts... and who knows about your adrenals and other levels -- if you've been under-treated most of your life, you probably have adrenal fatigue and other vitamin deficiencies.
See what you can gather on this site: www.stopthethyroidmadness.com -- a doctor that is only checking for TSH, and then not even treating your TSH is worst than no doctor at all!!
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Or go to a Naturopath like I did, you may respond to natural therapy better if you state has a licensed practitioner! I felt like crap and packed on the pounds for years. My endocrinologist didn't even pick up how fluctuating my levels were. It took a Naturopath using iridology (scientifically based) who picked how bad I was after nearly having a heart attack and severe panic attacks with rapid weight gain.
So endo's don't always do the right thing!!! My Naturopath saved my life!0 -
hi
I am currently living in Australia and nope they dont send me to a endo.
I was working full time 12 months ago but decided that I needed to focus on my health. Ignorant doc said to me Why do you work? You do not need to work! But I replied why do you work? You like using your training.
I actually had a doctor say to me that she didn't know how I got up in the morning when you add chronic iron aenemia to the situation. I fired her and the new doc immediately sent me for an iron infusion at the hospital as I dont absorb the iron tablets and the weekly injections did nothing.
I am now on 350mg Eutroxsig up from 250mg. WIll give that some time and retest.
Maybe I dont know anything else, perhaps its become my normal but I dont feel that bad. My mum had radioactive iodine and she cant believe that I keep going.
I had a RYN basically because I couldn't lose weight and the docs couldnt really get it sorted. It was really sad that I had to do that and thats how I dropped 70kg. Have regained quite a bit but thats to be expected given my situation but it does leave me feeling a failure. I now know not to self medicate with chocolate and coke for the caffine.
Seriously I will lose weight. When I start exercising and are careful with what I eat (I dont starve myself) I will lose weight.
Actually it kinda makes me giggle because I have a friend who moans because she gets everything going. Always rushing off to the doctor. Then my poor sister inlaw had to take a few months of from teaching because she had a thyroid virus - would have thought it life threatening.... but I get no sympathy. So I think attitude is vital in life and I refuse to be sick. Life is too short for that.
I am just dealing with granular breast tissue, then will look at the ovarian cysts and thyroid. Cant deal with everything at once. Also we have a aspergers daughter.
Yes when I put it in writing I do wonder how I cope but I do and you just havent got a choice.
Swampy0
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