Intro and need some help - Long

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Hi Everyone,

I've been reading and trying to get the information about Rt3 to sink in but I

think I'm at the point of needing someone to help me understand if this is an

issue for me or not.

Here is my history -

I was on Levox for several years and was miserable. Then I took Armour for a

couple of years, 90mg 2x's a day until the supplies ran out. I was okay but

still not 100%. I was continuing to work on raising low ferritin and low Vit D

by taking supplements.

I tried to switch to NT but those supplies were gone too. The NT script was sent

to a compounding pharmacy and I started on 130mg 2x's a day at the beginning of

Jan. Within a week and a few days I knew it was too much and backed down to ONE

130mg 1x per day. Two weeks later I developed tremors, muscle weakness and pain

and racing heart. Blood tests indicated " toxic levels " of Ft3 and Ft4 (over

19,ranges top out at 1.77 and 4.4). My doctor stopped all meds and put me on a

Beta

blocker for two weeks and then did labs ~

Feb 1st on no meds labs were:

TSH 0.010 Range 0.450-4.500 Low

Ft4 0.70 Range 0.82-1.77 Low

Ft3 1.8 Range 2.0-4.4 Low

VitD 19.6 Range 32.0-100 Low

Iron S 126 Range 35 - 155

Ferritin 51 Range 10 - 291

My doctor asked me to up Vit D to 5,000iu daily and wait two weeks to test

thyroid again.

Lab results for Feb 22 still no meds (I asked for Rt3 & TPO):

TSH 4.520 Range 0.45-4.50 High

Ft4 0.68 Range 0.82-1.77 Low

Ft3 2.1 Range 2.0-4.4

RevT3 143 Range 90-350

TPO 253 Range 0-34 (Down from over 600 last year)

My doctor is going on the assumption that the compounding pharmacy made an error

in my script and that's why my levels went too high. Now he's refused to put me

back on compounded natural because of what happened. He put me back on Levox at

50mg 1 x per day saying he needs to see if I'm able to convert to T3 or not.

Needless to say I don't feel good. I'm tired, grumpy, bloated, muscle and joint

pain, gained 4 pounds, stomach cramps and my hands and feet are cold all the

time. I've just started charting my temps again and I'm continuing to take

5,000 IU's of Vit D daily and as much iron as my stomach can handle, which since

I started the Levox again is about 50mgs per day. I'm not sure why my stomach

has been a mess, maybe it's not connected?

I did saliva testing last year and was found to have low normal a.m., low late

morning, lower late afternoon and then high night. My doctor insists that this

means only that I am stressed and my adrenals are working just fine and are

simply responding to the stress in my life and it's NOT my adrenals making me

feel tired.

Btw, I know that I have to get off the Levox but I feel stuck until one of the

products comes back into the pharmacy. I live in Maine and there simply are not

a lot of options to find doctors who are willing to prescribe Armour or NT and I

can't afford the testing over and over on my own dime.

Anyway, I apologize for the novel. I just keep hitting a wall with all this and

am hoping to find someone or something to help me help myself.

Thank you!