Depending on how you're looking at the forum either on the right-hand side of your screen or at the bottom, there is a list of 'Topics' and one of the most active is 'Can't get diagnosed' have a root around there as well.
Your symptoms certainly are indicative of hypo. Before the blood tests and levothyroxine were introduced you would have been given a trial of natural dessicated thyroid hormones upon your symptoms alone.
Did you have your blood test at the very earliest a.m. -fasting (you can drink water). (if you were taking thyroid hormone replacement tablets you'd allow a 24 hour gap between the last dose and the test).
Your Free T4 is low. You may not be able to have sufficient to convert to Free T3.
Doctors have been in the UK have been instructed not to diagnose until the TSH reaches 10. Some people will be quite unwell by then - if it ever reaches 10.
In other countries people will be diagnosed when TSH is 3+.
If you're in the UK, doctors have been advised not to diagnose until TSH is 10. You could have a private blood test following the fasting, etc advice. You can have a look at these.
Blue Horizon and Medichecks (medichecks have special offers every Thursday). You need to make sure you are well hydrated a couple of days before drawing blood. I
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