Re: GENERAL-Not feeling well/Kristi

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Aldyth Rae wrote:

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> Thanks for your reply, I'm feeling pathetically tearful and depressed this

afternoon - sorry for myself really!

I get like that when hypo, but it can happen when just plain fed

up with being ill or bouncing up and down the range.

> My TSH, 3 weeks ago on 15mg Carbimazole a day was 2.09 (r.r. 0.4 - 6.4) and

the FT3 was 4.5 (r.r. 2.67 - 7.03). It's the first time my TSH has moved since

I was diagnosed in August with a TSH of <0.01. Maybe now it is on the move it

hasn't stopped!

2.09 is quite high enough for us Graves' types, the gurus have

learnt to reduce antithyroid medication as soon as TSH

reappears.

I think your just discovering hypo is awful as well as hyper. I

know you've been very cautious with reducing antithyroid drug

dose to avoid going hyper, but the effects of hypo are just as

bad they just creep up on us slower, and can take longer to go

away.

You might even be able to cut the dose of ATD further, but don't

do anything radical with the dose. My doctor always prefers to

have blood tests before changing doses (unless the signs are

absolutely conclusive and blood tests will just prolong the

misery).

Any thoughts on my last e-mail to you? re: speaking to your

doctor.

Simon