learning to adjust meds for myself?

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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