I'm so sorry you're going through this. In reading your lab numbers, is it possible that you're actually still hypo? My TSH (EVERYONE is different) sits at .001 - .007 when I feel the best. What it took for me to realize I was being under-treated was finding a doctor who treats my symptoms (hair loss, dry skin, exhaustion, swollen feet & hands.) vs. the my numbers. I also learned that T3 and T4 should be in the upper 25% of the "normal' range to be optimal.
That 25 mcg of T4 will do nothing for you. The T3 med is not additive to your prior leves. It will only cause TSH to go down and thus reduce the stimulation of the thyroid gland to produce thyroid med. Since serum thyroid levels are the sum of both natural thyroid and thyroid med, only when TSH is essentially suppressed will further increases in med dosage start to raise your FT4 and FT3 levels.
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It appears that the Endo is only paying attention to your TSH level, and doesn't accept that there is something called central hypothyroidism. With central hypothyroidism, there is a dysfunction in the hypothalamus/pituitary system resulting in TSH levels that are too low to adequately stimulate the thyroid gland. Doctors like to believe that central hypothyroidism is a rarity: however, it is rare only because it is so seldom diagnosed due to over-reliance on TSH as the sole diagnostic.
Along with your numerous symptoms that are frequently related to hypothyroidism, your Free T4 is actually below its range. Your Free T4 is even worse when you understand that due to the erroneous procedure used to establish FT4 and FT3 ranges, they are far too broad and skewed to the low end. Your Free T3 of 3.2 is only about 31% of its range, which is too low for many people. Your FT3 being higher in range than your FT4 is likely indicative of your body converting more T4 to T3 in an effort to maintain thyroid function as best possible. Taken together your FT4 and FT3 are much too low, and further strong evidence for hypothyroidism. Everyone is different, but many of us have found that to achieve symptom relief required Free T4 around mid-range, and Free T3 in the upper half of its range, and adjusted from there as needed to relieve hypo symptoms.
You are taking care of the B12. Your D needs to be a bit higher: 50 ng/mL at minimum. Likewise your ferritin is too low. Needs to be at least 100. Free T4 and ferritin levels are very important for good hair growth.
Most important, you need a good thyroid doctor that will diagnose and treat clinically, based on symptoms, by testing and adjusting Free T4 and Free T3 levels as needed to relieve your hypo symptoms. In addition, a good thyroid doctor will prescribe T3 type meds like NatureThroid, Armour Thyroid, NP Thyroid, and Cytomel, when needed to raise FT3 levels. Based on your experience to date, I expect that you need to find a good thyroid doctor. If you will tell us your location, perhaps a member can suggest a doctor that has been recommended by other thyroid patients.
If you want to confirm what I have said, please click on my name and then scroll down to my Journal and read at least the one page Overview of a full paper on Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypothyroidism: A Patient's Perspective.
In trying to assess a person's thyroid status the most important indicator is an evaluation for symptoms that occur more frequently with hypothyroidism than otherwise. Your have a number of symptoms that are typical of hypothyroidism. The next thing to evaluate is tests results for Free T4 and Free T3. Within normal ranges, TSH has only a very weak correlation with Free T4, and a negligible correlation with symptoms. So, TSH is useful for diagnosis only when it is at extreme levels, which your TSH is not. In order for us to evaluate your Free T4 and Free T3 levels, please post the reference ranges shown on the lab report.
In addition, there are other variables that are important for a possible hypothyroid patient. If you have been tested for cortisol, Vitamin D, B12 and ferritin, please post those as well.