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I've been on 90 mg of Armour Thyroid since March. Was on 75 mg before that. Over the last 4 years I've been on just about every dosage available - up and down and up again. The 90 seemed optimal for a while but it didn't last. I've got a second appointment with my new doctor on Thursday. The first appt. was naturally more…

I've been struggling with this for over 3 years now. In the last 6 months I have had two 5 week periods where I felt like a normal, healthy person. I was able to lose weight by eating better and counting calories. But that didn't last and when I'm not feeling right I don't lose weight no matter what I do. I really want to…

Finding a good, helpful doctor for thyroid issues is so important but it's the hardest thing to do. It's been over 3 years since I was diagnosed and I'm still searching. I've been to 2 endocrinologists who were the least helpful people ever. They were both awful and said basically the same thing: "You have a thyroid issue…

I don't have the results from my latest blood tests but here they are from the end of August: TSH: 0.020 (reference range: 0.358-3.740) T4 free: 0.80 (0.76-1.46) T3 free: 2.83 (2.30-4.20) The doctor's office called me the other day to say that my last TSH was somewhere around 0.01. So the doctor thinks I'm hyperthyroid but…

I'm sorry you are going through this. To almost anyone with Hashi's all of this sounds very familiar. Unfortunately your doctors are just completely wrong about TSH. It cannot tell them everything they need to know. They have to look at T4 and T3 and put it all together. Very few doctors understand this and…

Just an update: my new doctor seems to be a great listener but I'm not sure she really understands the thyroid issues. So far she's only looked at my TSH levels which concerns me. Right now my TSH is really low (almost 0) but my T4 and T3 are in the low normal range. They shouldn't all be low, right? I'm going to see her…

I have read that things can fluctuate with Hashi's as your thyroid dies a little more it can release a bunch of hormones causing both hypo and hyper thyroid symptoms. I was just hoping to have a discussion with my doctor about it and see if there were adjustments I could make. That didn't happen. He was a step above the…

Thank you for your reply. I did just see my doctor on Monday. Unfortunately all he would say is that he doesn't have labs for the times of those fluctuations so he can't say what was going on. He's not exactly helpful when it comes to anything beyond the blood test results. I have an appointment with a new doctor tomorrow…