I’ve now been on thyroxine for 13 months. My results are textbook, I feel well, I am living a full and active life, but my basal body temperature has never risen beyond an average of 36.1oC.
Any idea what’s going on?
I’ve now been on thyroxine for 13 months. My results are textbook, I feel well, I am living a full and active life, but my basal body temperature has never risen beyond an average of 36.1oC.
Any idea what’s going on?
Sometimes that's the case that the temp doesn't rise to what it used to be. The main thing is that you are feeling well, warm and not cold. Excerpt:-
The reason some patients’ temperatures remain low is what I call "differential tissue sensitivity to thyroid hormone." I came to this conclusion from many discussions with molecular biologists who do thyroid hormone research. In patients whose temperatures stay low, the temperature-raising enzymes whose gene transcription is increased by thyroid hormone (such as sodium-potassium-ATPase) are apparently partly or wholly exempt from regulation by thyroid hormone. Because of this, the patients’ body temperatures simply aren’t a useful gauge. They must use other physiological measures to assess their tissue responses to a particular dosage of thyroid hormone.