HI everyone - I'm new - need help

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Hello, My name is and I am only just beginning to get to grips with all

things thyroid. I had Graves and my thyroid was irradiated some 30 years ago. I

put on weight very slowly over the years ( I'm in my fifties) and went I went

hypothyroid when I turned 40, I was puton 100mcg of levothyroxin and that has

never changed.

I am 5 9' and weigh 18.7 st. Three stone of that went on like magic after

becoming hypo. All my Gp tells me to do is join a weight loss club, which I have

done on and off for years and while it starts out fine, after loosing about a

stone I crave sweets like crazy , gain the weight back in no time ( a week) and

feel depressed. I came to accept I was going to be a fatty all my life until I

read about Theirry Hertoghe and T3 and the gaps of synthetic thyroid.

I don't think I have ever been tested for T3 - I know little of what each

reading means at the moment - still learning. but I average around 18 on the

free T4 and 1.8 on TSH.

A few years back I feel down and hurt my knee for which I had an operaton that

didn't work. I have a baker's cyst, can't walk for more than an hour ( I used to

be a keen walker) and as s result I put on more weight on that point and got

high blood pressure, so Iam on irbesartan for that.

To cut a very long story short, I am miserable, feel low, frustrated and want to

get sorted. I am naturally a cheerful person, which is probably why I kept

optimistic about loosing weight one day and kept at it.

Does anyone know of a UK doctor that can help me? I am based in London. I have

arranged to see Theirry Hertoghe in Belgium, but if I can avoid the travel, I

would prefer to see someone here.

Thanks so much for any suggestions/tips/words of encouragement