New to list and feel like hell....

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Hi everyone,

I joined this list after touching base with one of your members,

Betty. She told me about you all using natural methods? I'd like to

know if there's any help for me... someone who's had RAI and no longer

has a functioning thyroid.

I did the RAI in June, 2003 and have lived in hypOhell ever since.

I'm currently on 100 mcg Synthroid and back it up with 200 mcg

Selinium in an effort to help the T4 convert to T3. I don't know if

it's helping or not as I still feel crappy, but am afraid to stop

taking it for fear that I'll feel worse than I already do.

I have TED, rotting teeth, huge weight gain and of course, the brittle

nails and brain fog. These are the worst of the symptoms, though

there are many more.

My last blood screen showed:

FT4 1.67 [0.80-1.90]

TSH sensitive 0.798 [0.400-4.000]

At the time of this last test (4 Jan) I was taking 112 mcg Synthroid,

but as of that day (2 March) am now on 100 mcg.

My eyes... oh, my eyes are currently my most major complaint.

Extremely sensitivity to light, at this point I'd rather go to the

dentist for a root canal than go to the neuro-opthalmologist to have

my eyes checked. I'm on 300mg 3x daily.

If anyone here can understand this, the following also came back in my

bloodwork:

ANA SCR.....Borderline

Result Comment:

ANA TITER....1:80

ANA PATTERN...Speckled

Interpretations:

REFERENCE RANGE

Negative: <=1:40 TITER

Borderline =1:80 TITER

Positive: >=1:160 TITER

INTERPRETATION:

Pattern: Homogenous (Smooth); Antigen Detected: DNA (DSS, SS,N),

Histone; Suggested Disease Association: High Titers - SLE

Speckled: Antigen Detected: SM, RNP, SCL-70, SS-A/SS-B; Suggested

Disease Association: SLE, MCTD, Scleroderma, Sjogrens

Nucleolar: Antigen Detected: SCL-70, PM-1/SCL; Suggested Disease

Association: High Titers

Scleroderma

Cemtromere: Antigen Detected: Centromere; Suggested Disease

Association: PSS w/Crest Syndrome Variable

DNA AB (EIA)... 19

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My question to all that, it appears to me that I am in the beginning

stages of Scleroderma. Does it to you, as well? If so, I'm headed

back to the doctor to find out why none of this was explained to me at

my last appointment.

Well, so much for my first message to all of you! I'm sorry it's so

long; I can get rather long-winded at times.

Colleen