Re: For those of you who are listening to LQ's nonsense

Nicky, what were your mother's thyroid complications? I was *fortunate?* to have my discovery
made due to multiple cold nodules which were treated with Synthroid to "put my thyroid to sleep"
so the nodules could not feed off the hormone. Later, I had thyroiditis which virtually burned
up my thyroid, plunging me into hypothyroidism. It is a real juggling act keeping my thyroid
levels normal now. We have to manage it with micro changes in the thyroxin. Right now, I am
taking 175 per day, down from 200 a few months ago. I AM fortunate, though that a full thyroid
panel has always been done on me, except for a follow-up on drug level changes when a TSH is
done to see if we are headed in the right direction. We think I probably got ahold of some bad
Synthroid when I had a TSH of 36 a few months ago. My doctor called here on a Sunday afternoon
to talk to me about it, and to let me know he was sending a new rx the next day. I had a hard
time convincing him I was not incompliant, and really had been taking my med.

Billie

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"Nicky" <ukc802466929@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:49vpobFqk620U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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: : No consolation - but it's the same with hypothyroid problems. "Normal"
: Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH - the only thing they test on, usually) is
: 5 in my lab. I feel most comfortable around 2-ish, which is common - the
: thyroid equivalent of the AACE says actually around 3 should be the top end
: of normal. Yet they don't treat you round here until you're at the 10 mark.
: My thyroxine replacement needs are gradually increasing; I'd love to know if
: I could have prevented that progression by treating to keep TSH around 3. I
: started having annual tests about 10 years ago when my mother died of
: hypothyroid related complications - I was 6 when we started, and was told it
: was within normal tolerance and not to worry. Then the endo I saw shortly
: after diabetes dx 2 years ago told me that the hypothyroidism was almost
: certainly implicated in the diabetes dx. Gee, ta.
:
: Nicky.
:
: --
: A1c 10.5/5.4/<6 T2 DX 05/2004
: 1g Metformin, 100ug Thyroxine
: 95/74/72Kg
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