Managing hypoT problems until I can being T3

January 28, 2010

While I am taking iron and waiting for T3 to get here (which is another 18*

days)...over the past month I am gradually blowing up with fluid. My legs/feet

and hands are very swollen and are starting to burn. My morning temps went from

98.2 to 97.8. Of course I'm really tired. Nothing new there, I'm always tired.

I am taking sea salt water. I am on 25mg of HC, 3/4 grains of NT and the

following:

A, 10,000 IU

D 15,000 IU per the doc

B complex 2x a day

Chromium 4x a day for hypoglycemic issues

milk thistle 3x

iron glycinate 25mg once a day

zinc 100mg

E-400 IU

Cod oil

Primrose oil

molybdenum 100mcg

C,Magnesium and calcium.

Anyway....I seem to be getting worse since going on iron, but I'm tolerating it

because it's a necessary, three weeks on it now, and I am getting depressed, it

also gives me heartburn...metal tasting heart burn. The fluid retention is

getting worse now I am noticing itching/burning. My last labs were low thyroid

and she told me to raise my NatureThroid but I haven't gone any farther than

adding 1/4 grain. Seemed pointless to add something that was going to make more

reverse T3. She's contemplating the T3 only thing. Meanwhile I'm getting sicker

and quite angry that her treatment plan has caused me to worse off than where I

started.

Anything at all I can do in the interim here to help get me through until I can

do the t3? When I was on 1 3/4 grains of Nt a few months ago I was not full of

all this fluid. But I'm not sure it's a good idea to try to go back up again.

I know...probably isn't anything I can do but...I thought I'd ask how others

managed this if they went through it. For me the most problematic is the

swelling. I did not have this on the higher NT dose. In fact I haven't had this

much swelling since I was pregnant!

Jan

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