Re: learning to adjust meds for myself?

[Guest guest]

Hi ph-

I never had depression and anxiety both with anything other than

hypothyroidism. Your levels are hypothyrioid.

I can't say for certain but your thyroid levels are probably getting even

more hypothyroid after RAI. I don't know when you had it but it's going to

take you a while to stabilize. One hundred mcg of Synthroid is not very

much for a full grown adult male and I think you need to be aggressive about

what you need especially with a TSH of 57.

Take care,

dx & RAI 1987 (at age 24)

> I'll try to do this without goin on to long.

> first off i have delt with depperssion for most of my life that

> would come and go, I did notice years ago that a few days befor the

> depperssion would hit me ,I would get a feeling in my gut like

> something was wrong.like when you had to slam the brakes on to avoid

> a car wreck,and you would get the butterflies.A day or so later the

> depperssion would set in on me.

> AS far as my graves disease, I know that I must of had it for years

> before i knew it.At first I had no ins ,so my family doctor tryed to

> help as much as he could.At first he thought it was just

> hypothyroidism and put me on tap for a month or so, And said that

> will bump the thyroid into working right. Well when I went back I

> was hypo, so he put me on synthroid. But I would only take the

> synthroid for about two weeks,Then i would start to feel bad.So

> Iwould just stop takeing it. I would wait a few months without

> takeing anything,Go back and I would be hyper agian.This went on for

> about two years. But it seems I never did well on the synthroid.

> Well got ins and found out it was graves.And had RAI and found this

> site.And some of you got to know me pretty well ( Pam,).

> but this is my question, At my last trip to my endo my levels where

> very hypo.

> T-4,free 0.5 L (0.8-1.8)

> THS 57 H (0.40-5.50)

>

> from my understanding it take up to 4 to 6 weeks for the synthroid

> to start working? but after 7 days of 100mcg synthroid I started to

> feel better,I improved to just feelin bad, and yes that was an

> improvement!But now 13 days into the synthroid I can feel the brain

> fog rollin back in.with my thyroid being dead could the synthroid

> work on me that fast? and could the butterflies be a sign that my

> levels are going to high or to low?and has anyone else connected the

> butterflies to deppersion?

> sorry so long.

> joseph

[Guest guest]

ph,

It is best to get blood work before making any dosage changes. I wouldn't

adjust doses by " feel, " as hyper and hypO can feel similar in some ways.

You really need data to guide you. Thyroid levels (Free T3 and Free T4)

should be at about the middle of the " normal " range, with a TSH between 1

and 2. Everyone has their own " set point " (the numbers at which they feel

best), so that is why getting a copy of labs and making notes that day of

how you felt (attach the notes to the labs) as a way of keeping track is

important; it will help you find your set point. This is how you learn to

adjust your meds.

At 08:59 PM 8/20/2003, you wrote:

>But now 13 days into the synthroid I can feel the brain

>fog rollin back in.with my thyroid being dead could the synthroid

>work on me that fast? and could the butterflies be a sign that my

>levels are going to high or to low?and has anyone else connected the

>butterflies to deppersion?