Am I doing this correctly?

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Hi everyone,

Thank you for lovely support. I am so glad I found you. I will give

you a bit of my history as to what appeared to bring this on. I will

try to be brief as there were some very traumatic things.

First of all, my husband suddenly became unwell with just a sore leg,

what ensued was a nightmare - it was a clot and his leg was to be

removed that night. They then decided to keep in in hospital with

warfarin as his other veins luckily took over. The following month

our only daughter was to be married in Cyprus and we could not go

because my husband was still not stable. I seemed to be coping but

the day my daughter got married I " lost the plot " and could not stop

screaming and ended up in A & E. The crisis team came out the next

day to check on me and suggested I see my doctor that day. This is

when he organised the blood tests and they came back as follows:

TSH 8 (0.3 to 5.0) T4 11 (9 to 24) Antibodies 436. I was given

levothyroxine but my mother took that and her hair fell out and she

was depressed and went to hell and back so I got in touch with a

Doctor who supplies me with Armour (as our local practice refuse) and

I have gradually built up to 105mg and soon to be 120mg and my basal

temps are still averaging approx 36.1. My latest results (6 months

ago) where TSH = 0.425 - T4 = 10. Sorry this is so long but there is

so much more. I have had suicidal thoughts which scare me but I feel

there are people out there who understand me now. Thank you. Suzanne

x