So far so good.
Posted on: November 5, 2005 | Posted in: My Story
Further research yet to be chronicled, but as a short side note: Your TSH levels can be abnormally elevated while you still have ‘normal’ free T4 and T3 levels. Apparently, that’s the first stage of thyroid exhaustion… your thyroid is slowing down, but is still capable of responding to elevated TSH stimulation.
Getting medication at that point (which I supposedly have done) should, according to my little theory, keep your T4/3 levels at ‘normal’ while allowing your pituitary to slack off TSH production down to normal levels. I’ll be going in for my next round of blood tests in a week or so, so we’ll see if that is indeed the case.
And what about the subjective “how’re you feeling” effects of the levothyroxin, 30 days into the trial? Well, I’m a bit nervous that it might all be placebo effect (really though… if I feel better, who cares if it’s placebo effect or not?), but I’m feeling better. I’m sleeping better… hardly ever suffer insomnia anymore, and usually sleep through the night. My hands and feet don’t seem to get cold as often. The water retention seems to have gone almost entirely. I haven’t been feeling all achy in the hands and feet, and my back seems to ache less often… particularly the neck and between the shoulder blades.
But, most exciting of all (in my vain opinion): I’ve lost 13 lbs. since my initial visit to the doctor. Sadly, this means I am now only down to my previous all-time-maximum weight, but that’s still 13lbs. gone. (Almost 1 stone, for you UK readers… 
…and just when I went out, resigned to my fate, and bought larger bluejeans.
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