Re: Intro - Palma

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Antibody levels can vary, with one test it's possible that they happened to hit you during a period of the cycle when the levels were low, so testing again, when the symptoms are there, is not a bad idea at all..

Sweets... carbohydrates... a common craving for a hypo person. It has to do with how easy they are to process into burnable calories when your body is tried and your brain is trying to kick it into action. Not all sweets are the same, some are worse than others. Corn syrup isn't such a bad thing, High Fructose Corn Syrup is a bad thing, it has to do with the chemical modification that is done to the natural sugar to make it seem sweeter (complicated to explain unless you're into chemistry stuff).

The best thing to do for sweet cravings, I think, for a hypo type person is to have them BUT balance with proteins and fats. If you compare it to a camp fire.... the carbs are the little twigs and branches that get the fire started fast and easy and hot... and the proteins and fats are the bigger logs that you put on once the fire is started, to keep it burning longer.

If you eat just carbs they burn up quick.... quick energy (what your body is craving) but soon gone and then you are back to being tired and hungry again... add the proteins and the GOOD fats.. and fiber (forgot to say fiber) they take longer to digest.. so they don't get used up so quick... they spread out the calories and energy over a longer period of time than just the carby/sugary stuff.

It's HARD to relearn how to eat... it's HARD to understand what some of the things that your body seems to be telling you to do and knowing what they mean....

From your symptoms alone, it's hard to tell what might be going on with you... the miscarriage, along with the high TSH suggest a hypo phase, temporary??? We don't know..

This is what you shared for lab history:

TSH has been anywhere from 2.41 to 3.31 since 2004; once it was 4.30 but that was 2 wks after my miscarriage in 2005;

my last 2 results were

2/07 TSH 3.31

3/07 TSH 2.41

FT3 has ranged from 280-330 with a range of 230-420

FT4 has ranged from 1.1-1.5 with a range of 0.8-1.8.

ferritin continues to be low at 25.

Can you kind run a time line for us...?

Month and year for:

When you last felt 'okay'...

When you started working on getting pregnant (if it was planned)...

When you miscarried.. How far along were you?

The TSH is a bit high.... the Free T3 is too low....

The panic and anxiety you spoke of when starting on the Levoxyl after the miscarriage.. that could have been the hormones in your system at the time, could have been adrenal related to thyroid, or to the replacement thyroid, or the emotions involved with the miscarriage... or a reaction to something in the pills themselves... There is too little info to go on... How much did they give you of the Levoxyl, what was the dose?

Your sleeping... or lack of sleeping, with all the waking.. that is suggesting adrenals that are not firing as they should.. that can be stress - everyday life, worried about what is going on....or it can be low thyroid stressing them

Any history of thyroid in your family?

Do you take any Selenium? What part of the country/world are you in?

Have you already had any children? How much did they weight at birth?

Topper ()

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:56:38 -0700 (PDT) palma joshi writes:

Hey Topper--

i have been tested for antibodies but it's been about a yr or so and it was negative at the time. i have to admit that my diet is pretty bad but i've been working on making it better. i really don't eat soy but i love sweets so i'm sure the corn syrup pops up quite a bit. and i'm sure there's fluoride in the water i drink.

as far as the panic and anxiety, it was really bad for quite a while. i shudder when i think about it. i had a miscarriage and then 2 wks later, started thyroid meds because my TSH was at 4.30. i was only on the med for 9 days because it made me feel worse and then a week or two after that is when i had my first panic attack and it was downhill since then. i alternated between feeling extremely depressed and anxious, almost paranoid and would have strange attacks where i couldn't catch my breath. it slowly got better and it's been a few months since i've experienced that. i do have days when i feel depressed and sometimes i feel on edge and my breathing does feel strained but nothing like before. and i wonder if my body was reacting to the miscarriage or if my thyroid was off. i've had my cortisol tested--blood, urine and saliva. my morning level was very high after the miscarriage but it all tapered back down eventually. the saliva hormone results were completely different than my blood hormone levels. it was really confusing!! so i'm just going by my blood levels. and my heart rate is steady, low; but sometimes, i can feel it speed up and my heart beats fast. my blood pressure is usually always low.

as far as sleep goes, sometimes it's great and sometimes it's bad. like everything else, it fluctuates. i've woken up a couple times in the middle of the night in a panic and felt like i needed to flee, i didn't know what to do. i go through periods of not being able to fall asleep, but mostly i wake up alot throughout the night. i definitely don't sleep 8 hours straight. my temp is usually fine. it's been low here and there--it's mostly in the upper 97 range which i think is fine. right now, i'm taking a fertility blend vitamin/herbal supplement that has iron and folic acid and chasteberry. i also take extra B12 since my level is low and extra folic acid since i've been told that is what really increases ferritin. sometimes before i sleep, i take a mag/cal powder. i'm gonna try to take fish oil caps too. i appreciate all your input!!

palma