Re: [Lyme-aid] thyroid

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Sue, congrats....it would be nice huh...one less thing to worry

about...though my doc did say he would have to keep an eye on it..because it

still could go crazy later. right now I am on a .025 dose....hopefully I

can wean myself completely off. Good luck

Cyntha Landon Idaho

[Lyme-aid] thyroid

> >One bit of good news the doc said he thinks I may not need to be on

> medication >for my thyroid anymore. He thinks it is normalizing on its

own.

> Just in case >though he is lowering my dose just a little more now to

> see...but he said even >with such a small dose as .05 that my thyroid is

> being hyper with the >medications. Says it is rare for ones own thyroid

to

> stablize on its own but >not impossible..why not we are use to doing the

> rare thing around here.

>

> I think mine's making progress, too. I've just started cutting back on

> my dose (.075), and am seeing some positive changes - weight beginning to

> come down slowly, better hair texture, etc, but also a couple of negatives

> like minor hair loss. I think this will take a while, and I want to be

> sure that my body temp doesn't drop any further by doing this;)

>

> This also happened to someone else I've talked to, w/lyme. I'm pretty

> sure I read in a Lyme book recently (could've been 1991 Patient/Physician

> Perspectives on Lyme) that the additional T4 can actually contribute to

> some of our problems, making our conditions worse. I think it had to do

> w/working the adrenals and/or liver too hard to convert to T3? I never

> felt hyper on the .075, tho.

>

> Sue

>

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