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Hi - I'm Phyllis and I'm new. I was diagnosed 8 months ago with hypo

after developing a goiter. Thought all the foggy-headed,

forgetfulness, tiredness, etc. was perimenopause (I'm 51). I'm on

Levoxyl (100) & need to switch or increase as I think the generic is

not working since I've got all the symptoms back - except the goiter.

Enough about me. My daughter is 22 and was diagnosed with Hashi's 4

years ago. She has gone through numerous doctors who told her she

was " too young " to be given thyroid replacment to those who only

treated her blood work (rather under-treated). For 5 years, she has

been plagued with fatigue, sleeps too much, cannot loose weight while

on 1200 calories a day along with 2-3 hours a day at the gym and now

experiences depression several days a month. She is using a new nurse

practitioner and was raised from .25 Synthroid to .75 a week ago.

Also, was on 150 mg Wellbutrin and raised to 300 mg daily (150 2X

day). She hit bottom last Wed. (after 6 days on the higher doses) with

depression and going to work was all she could manage to do. Her NP

told her to increase her Synthroid to 112.5 per day and wanted to add

another anti-depressant (which she didn't do). Her blood work last

week was :

TSH 7.751 and her T3 uptake was 23 (range 24-39), free thyroxine

index 1.6 (range 1.2-4.9) and T3 111 (range 85-205). You all are so

smart, could you tell me if this new NP is on the right track? (Sorry

this is so long). I appreciate your input. Phyllis