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Welcome to the forum, Llepke.
If you have any questions it will be helpful if you include your recent thyroid results with lab ranges (figures in brackets after results) and to say whether you are taking thyroid replacement.
I don't have my lab results. The county health department won't give them to me. My only income last twelve years is from Social Security Disability (chronic clinical depression and very severe anxiety panic disorder) so all I have is Medicare/Medicaid (I'm poverty-stricken). My County Health Department appointed psychiatrist has them in his file but he keeps telling me to try and get into the county health department clinic for a new primary care physician. The last PCP assigned to me was absolutely atrocious, and with my chronic clinical depression and very severe anxiety panic disorder I cannot go back to that same person. I've placed many many phone calls and left electronic voicemail. That "doctor" really wanted me to take antidepressants for my thyroid (all of the adverse reactions and excruciating side effects I had are all in my file from my four and a half year fiasco with antidepressants ending November 2005), nine days of 25mcg Levothyroxine landed me in the emergency room due to a paranoia attack. So I got Thiroyd from Bangkok and now I'm just playing it by ear. And I take all the recommended vitamins and stuff.
Llepke,
In the UK the Data Protection Act entitles patients to their test results. Perhaps you could see whether there is a similar provision to enable you to insist your practitioner provides you with your results.
1 grain (60-65mg) Thiroyd is equivalent to 75mcg Levothyroxine. If you feel overmedicated on 1 grain cut the tablet in quarters and take 1/2 or 3/4 grain.
I received the Thiroyd in the mail June 5, I started with half a tablet. That was too much too soon. So I did a quarter tablet a few days, then a half... I read that if you have an adrenal problem, increases sooner than two weeks are appropriate. I'm just going by symptoms because here in Illinois they don't do those kind of tests at the county health department. I'm up to one tablet morning and one tablet afternoon and sometimes an additional half evenings, I can feel it somehow if that evening dose is necessary. I have yet another new therapist, I'll see next week, and ask if she can intervene getting a printout of my lab results. I feel better tho, being on the Thiroyd a month now.
