OK a few questions (synthroid mainly)

[TOLD YOU]

It has been a year since my TT .  I am on 200 of Syntroid but still have ALOT of symptoms not sure if its thyroid or synthroid related.
I am having lots of stomach / bowel problems....constipation, heart burn, you name it I am having it.
I get VERY bad PMS...like anxiety, crying alot, depression and so on.
Having trouble at times with my head feeling very full, some head aches but mostly a full feeling and sort of feeling like out of touch, or like I dont want or mainly CARE about people talking to me I just sort of tune people out because I really dont care what they are saying.
My poor hubby its like sometimes I just pick fights with him for no reason...the other day I went postal on him for working on his 4-wheeler....WHAT.....if that is all I have to worry about I should be peachy...LOL..poor thing he says he doesnt know how to take me from day to day.  Its really taking its toll...we have been together 17 years and the last 4 have been the worst.

I dont know about being Hypo or Hyper because to hear my Endo tell it I should be fine (levels are OK)...even before I had my TT he told me I had a goiter so I didn't have symptoms just nodules because the levels were ok.  I know that is NOT true and so does my PCP but he doesn't.

I just know I have all these Symptoms but to hear the Docs tell it My levels are normal so I am fine, I just need a shrink or a few days off BLAH BLAH....LOL.
I have said it before and I will say it again if not for this board I would probably be dead by now because NO ONE gives a hoot about us Thyroid patients, the nurses even wrote Anxiety all in my chart at my PCP office.  I dont think it will ever change so THANK YOU for this board and the wonderful people that CARE on here.
Dana

[AR-10]

Your levels need to be nearly spot on or you will have symptoms. Your Endo is not well informed or attentive if he believes that anything under 10 is symptom free.

If you are more than a point off from your normal (what it used to be, way back when...) TSH, you can develop symptoms.

The average TSH falls somewhere between 0.8 and 1.8. A few like it higher, a few like it lower. I think the mean average is 1.3.

Everyone is a little different.

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My last TSH was 1 something can't remember it has been awhile since I had labs but my Endo says 10 and under have no symptoms.  I think he is nuts but that is what he says and when I try and tell him I HAVE SYMPTOMS..he sorta laughs and makes me feel crazy.
I think I need a new endo.  I go back to him like on the 16 and I am gonna make my decision to leave or not based on this visit.
I want to be armed with all the info I can get so I can state my case...LOL.
THANKS
dana

[ChitChatNine]

I had what you have and I get what you have when I am more hyper!!!!!!  Exactly to a T as you describe .. they put me on Zoloft and it didn't help so I ended up on Ativan 3days a month for the awful PMS ... then when I ended up on synthroid after my surgery all my symptoms disappeared with my TSH <1.3 ... I made my gyno look back at the records and I was very HYPER during that time (on my own from my own thyroid and when synthroid replicated it, the same symptoms came back!)

At TSH 1.8 I am perfect.  My normal is 2.8 with symptoms such as constipation.  

So when I had the gyno problems I was <1.0 .. the PMS was awful, etc.

Now it is all gone at the magic TSH of 1.8 which is golden for me!!!!

What is your TSH?

C~

[stella5349]

You are chronically talking about what so many people do. Your T4 medication may not be relieving you of your symptoms - but the "levels" are "normal" as the doctors see it

I see three choices as many are faced to do -

1 Even through you are "normal" with labs your not relieved of symptoms - so you can go to your doctor and suggest that even though you are "normal" - it's NOT normal for you

2 Speak to the doctor about adding a T3 medication = Alot of times T3 will relieve a person of these symptoms and help them feel much better.

3 Could ask for a med change entirely and go on either Armour or Thyrolar. This is a T3-T4 combo med and many feel much better going to that then just using Synthroid.

There is something our there to make you feel much better. SOmetimes we must push the doctor a bit to try and step out of their box and help us feel better.