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Related to my menstral cycle.. Could be - any excess estrogen makes

me nuts (like suicidal, sick, nuts - I think that may be why I was so

badly sick when pregnant).. I'll keep thinking about that.

I don't take any selenium products.. I have seen posts about it. I

shall give it a whirl.. Do you reco and brand/dosage?

One think I thought about after I wrote last was that I keep falling

down and tripping a lot lately. I mean like complete and udder loss

of coordination. I also get black squigglies (proper term, right?)

in my vision. And I cannot see unless there is a lot of light. Is

this all thyroid-related?

Topper - you are so awesome at having answers - every time I write!!

All my thanks!

Misty

>

> If your frees are both mid range my first thoughts are that your dose is

> insufficient and/or you're not converting properly.....

>

> Conversion relies on a few things for it to work efficiently... your

body

> has to be able to do the chemistry of it... some of us have broken

> 'converters'.... you have to have the stuff that the chemical process

> requires.. most notably... energy (small frequent meals) and

selenium. If

> either of those are deficient, conversion suffers.

>

> Your diet is restrictive, so that would be your nutrients may be hit or

> miss with your diet... are you taking any multivitmins, minerals.....

> even with a healthy diet, many of us need the extra nutrition.

>

> How are you dosing your meds?

>

> Something that hit me.... cyclical..... how does the 'feel pretty darn

> good day' relate to your menstrual cycle? Excessive estrogen levels can

> cause problems with thyroid hormone.... hmmmmmm

>

> Topper ()

>

> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:00:52 -0000 " msl5858 " <msl5858@y...> writes:

> Okay, I am wondering if you awesome ladies can help me out.. I just

> want to run through my symptoms and let anyone who wants to comment do

> so. I have bamboozled this list with many questions and would

> appreciate any comments.

>

> FYI - I began Armour therapy a couple of years ago and I am up to 4

> grains. This is my only rx as of now. I have weaned myself from

> antidepressants, stimulants, proton-pump inhibitors,etc.. I like it

> best with only the Armour..

>

> Okay, beginning with childhood, I was dxd with mvp at age 14 (hadn't

> seen a doctor previously so it - the mvp- could have been older). I

> had bad periods, but only about half as many as I should have. I was

> very, very thin. (5'10 " , 117 lbs). I also blacked out frequently

> (don't know if it was seizures, fainting??) My parents did not take

> me to the doctor until I was 14 because I was complaining of fatigue

> (they were poor and ignorant). Other than MVP, I was cleared.

>

> No doctor again (literally) until I got pregnant. I had the most

> severe case of Hyperemesis gravidarum that my maternal-fetal

> specialists had ever seen. I lost about 30 pounds (that wasn't there

> to lose) and had horrible abdominal pain (I had always had daily

> abdominal pain to some extent). I also had transient hyperthyroidism

> during this time.

>

> Right after the birth, I felt amazingly well. My body looked great, I

> was breast-feeding, working out (walking 6 miles daily) and had great

> energy. However, at about 6 weeks ppd, I couldn't get out of bed - my

> body felt heavy, I was confused, and I began to put on an incredible

> amount of weight, and my milk dried completely up. (gained 140 lbs in

> about 8 months). Rxd antidepressants (of course).

>

> Presently, I have been dxd with Hashi's, PCOS (which was never

> accurately tested for and I think isn't a real dx for me). Every test

> for every virus comes back positive, I am allergic about 50 foods, I

> have alternating hypothermia/fever (97.0-99.2 orally) and I get cold

> and then warm for no logical reason.

>

> I have tremors in my hands, my periods went away for 2 years and then

> 3 months ago they were perfect down to the day. My weight has gotten

> worse (almost 300 lbs). I am dizzy a lot. I throw up almost daily

> but the GI doc found NOTHING!

>

> Now, the weird thing - about once every couple of weeks, with out

> reason, I have a day where I feel amazing. Not manic or hyper, but

> just pretty damn (sorry) great.

>

> Now, on a nutritionist-supervised diet (yeast-free, allergen-free,

> etc) I lose about 20 lbs of water (all from bloated abdomen) but then

> nothing. No diet has worked at all beyond that 20 lbs.

>

> I also shake my legs (nervous, I guess) 24 hours daily. Headaches are

> pretty common, but, more troublesome, my eyesight is pretty aweful for

> a 29 year old - I have it corrected often but then it gets harder to

> see soon after. My hair is also going gray for no reason. (My mom and

> dad still have 95% of their black hair - and my mom is hypoT, too)

>

> My resting pulse is between 80-100 bpm, my bp is 118/70 99% of the

> time. I also have tissue growth in the very back of my throat that

> the ENT says is lymphoid tissue. He also says it has been there my

> entire life - WRONG - I have strep throat constantly so I am always

> looking back there and nothing was there until this year.

>

> I try to walk at night (around my neighborhood - probably 2-3 miles

> minimum) but my legs hurt badly after (duh, because I am fat, right??)

>

> Anyway - this may just still be undertreated hashi's, but seems like

> things would get better post-Armour if that was the whole story, right??

>

> Any thoughts would be most appreicated. I am getting pretty frantic

> here. I wanted to be healthy by my 30th. My docs keep begging me to

> do weight loss surgery, but I can easily be anorexic without any help

> - it just doesn't work for me.

>

> HELP!!

>

> My free t3s are mid and so are my free t4s. My tsh is .021.

>

> Does anyone know anything about cyclical cushing's?? I keep asking

> the docs, but my cortisol is either low-normal or high-normal (again,

> no rhyme or reason - even on the same days..)

>

> I feel like something is REALLY going on, but it took me forever to

> get my docs to listen about the thyroid so now they just think I am a

> loon, I am sure..

>