Update

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I

feel it is a good idea for me to update

everyone following my previous posting 'Opinions needed'.

On

the advice of the doctor I saw locally

(diabetes specialist) I stopped all of my medication except

oestrogen and

progesterone.

The first thing that I noticed was that

after a few days my hands stopped shaking.

The next thing was that I found jogging so

much easier; in fact I can now jog for 20 minutes without

stopping and without

feeling breathless.

I have not been able to do this for ages

and had wondered why I could not jog for more than a few

minutes at a time.

So these were the improvements.

I

contacted the doctor in Paris who I had

been to see on several occasions. He

was

not happy that I had stopped all the medication and advised

that I could start

to feel unwell very quickly.

Also he said that too many doctors take

notice of the TSH result without taking anything else into

consideration.

As far as the Synathene test is concerned

he felt it almost useless in my case as I am borderline.

He was happy for me to consult him via

Skype.

Having gone back and forth to him for

advice and wondering what course to take I continued to not

take any other

medication.

We

had planned a holiday so off we went, by

which time I had developed a cold. I

then suffered with a migraine, first day really bad with a

horrible sickness

feeling, followed by two more days of permanent

headache..................but

we were on holiday and I battled on.

On

our return I again contacted the doctor

in Paris

as I had started to have puffy eyes in the mornings, feeling

more

tired and had already put on 2-3kilos!!

He advised me to restart the DHEA and

Thyroid-S @ 1 per day.

I started these on Thursday last, 3 weeks

after stopping everything.

He also felt that a Reverse T3 test would

be a good idea.

Not so simple, or so I thought.

I contacted the laboratory who usually do

my blood tests and they advised that they could send a sample

to a lab in Paris at a cost of

76€.

I was able to go to my local nurse and the

sample has been sent off - it will take about a month to get

the result.

TSH and Free T3 at the same time as

follows:

TSH 0.23

Free T3 0.9 ng/l (or 1.39 pmol/l).

So

life goes on, not much different to

before, except my clothes are a little tighter and I can jog

more easily. Sounds

like a contradiction in terms.