RE: Re: Not sure if Synthroid is working

May 12, 2006

please! reconsider surgery and get your thyroid levels fixed first. Then

you may not need surgery.

Gracia

> Thank you for your input. I am going back to my endocrinologist in a

> month (it will have been two months since I was last checked) to

> check my levels. Considering the way I feel, I probaly do need my

> dose increased. I have no energy at all and all I want to do is

> sleep. I also am having a horrible time with insomnia, so that

> doesn't help with my fatigue. This is really a tough time for me too

> because I am also about to undergo back surgery in two weeks to

> remove a disc in my thoractic spine (herniated disc)that is pressing

> on my nerves and causing pain that wraps around from my back to my

> abdomen. I just want to feel normal again and hope that I can get my

> thyroid regulated. I am only 28, and I feel like I'm a lot older due

> to how I feel. It is just frustrating to have to wait to see what my

> dr. wants to do and it's usually a very conservative treatment.

> -Sarie

>

May 12, 2006

I have some of the same issues. My doctor started me on .025 mg. I just

had labs drawn today and my TSH is even higher than before I started on

Synthroid. She's increasing my dose to .050 mg. When I started taking .025

of Synthroid, my TSH was 14.3. Dunno my T3 or T4 since it wasn't done at

the time. Currently, after being on Synthroid for 8 weeks, my TSH is now

14.7 and my T4 is .56.

I asked why she couldn't give me a larger dose and she said she was

following medical protocol. She said that's what they teach you in med

school about titrating thyroid hormones. She said she had another patient

whose TSH was 400 and that the patient came back within normal range on .025

mg Synthroid. Then she went on to say that if I wanted to see a different

physician, feel free. She may have said that because she's a Veterans

Affairs doc and knows I can't afford to go elsewhere.

Edie

Chuck wrote:

Ask your doctor to explain the cautious approach. My initial dose

was 75 mcg, a typical starting dose, and I am male, so my full dose

was 100 mcg, at least initially, increased at 4 weeks. Three years

later, I am at 125 mcg.

Chuck,

Thank you for your input. I am going back to my endocrinologist in a

month (it will have been two months since I was last checked) to

check my levels. Considering the way I feel, I probaly do need my

dose increased. I have no energy at all and all I want to do is

sleep. I also am having a horrible time with insomnia, so that

doesn't help with my fatigue. This is really a tough time for me too

because I am also about to undergo back surgery in two weeks to

remove a disc in my thoractic spine (herniated disc)that is pressing

on my nerves and causing pain that wraps around from my back to my

abdomen. I just want to feel normal again and hope that I can get my

thyroid regulated. I am only 28, and I feel like I'm a lot older due

to how I feel. It is just frustrating to have to wait to see what my

dr. wants to do and it's usually a very conservative treatment.

-Sarie

May 12, 2006

I wholeheartedly concur! I had back surgery at L4-L5 for a herniated disk

and now wonder if I might not have had it if I had been properly diagnosed

as hypo. My back surgery did NOT alleviate my pain. As a matter of fact,

it made it worse.

Re: Re: Not sure if Synthroid is working