Result!!!! getting there on t3 alone at long last for Sheila

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> Hi

> I guess its fluid as when i push it, it pits for a couple of seconds is that

> correct?

> I am taking what you recommended to me co- amilozide 50mg as mine were making

> me pee contantly.

> I take 1 in morning and 1 in afternoon when i 1st rtarted tsaking them all the

> swelling went and my weight started dropping which when you have 8 stone of

> thyroid weight to lose was amazing but the weight has gone back on plus im all

> swollen even my eyelids hands and fingers, my feet are so swollen my toes look

> like tiny sausages, and it is so painful to walk i also ache all over.

> Any suggestions please

> Thanks xx

Are you taking any

> diuretics as I guess the swelling is retention of fluid, or is it myxoedema.

> When you press your fingers into the swollen ankles, does it pit, or does it

> just bounce back to where it was before.

> So wonderful that you have been responsible for teaching your GP something.

> Let's hope he now passes this information on to his other thyroid patients who

> remain suffering continuing symptoms.