Dear Dr Lupo.

[2blubear2]

Hi, I am diagnosed with hypothyriod and have been on 125mg levothyroxine for a number of years, I feel really old stiff, tired aching joints and muscles, sick and also get very dizzy if I move my head forward and side to side. my advise has been anti depressants which I dont like as they make me feel like im walking through cement.....really hard to function. my levels are..TSH 0.04, freeT4 21.2, freeT3 5.6, bilirubin 2, albumin 43, heamoglobin 11.7, white 4.4, mean cell 84.1,mc heamoglobin28. haematocrit  0.343. while all my readings are normal or border line, why do i feel so bad, i cant keep up with life......it is so sad, and painfull. Thank you.

[2blubear2]

Hi,  Thank you for your reply....I thought I was asking a GP questions ...sorry. No I dont know why this came on but I have had a bad time of it about 16 years ago it probably got to its worst point and I think my body just shut down about 5 yrs ago, I could not funtion at all..all my vitals were so slow I thought I was dying and would stay in bed for days, unable to do much at all....it was really scary.   The results are mostly borderline on the low side, TSH was flagge in red and below normal range, Free T4 was high and the Heamocratite was flagged up as below the range. I dont have results on me at the moment.
My GP said I was aching probably due to depression or fibromyalgia....but im not depressed and the drugs they gave my did not affect my pain just zoned me out...horrid.
Im feeling much better after lowering the dose. Thanks again..x

                                                                                           jude

[goolarra]

This is the members' forum.  We are not doctors, but fellow patients.  The expert forum only takes so many questions a day, then the overflow is bumped over here.  

Please post the reference ranges for your lab tests (thyroid, at least).  Ranges vary lab to lab and have to come from your own lab report.

Do you know the cause of your hypo?  Were you ever diagnosed with Hashi's?