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[morehead]

I have sweats at night around my neck. Lower back pain. My arthritis is worse. I have so much muscle loss. Gut problems. I feel so exhausted... Is this happen to anyone else.

[greygoose]

Anyone that's been under-medicated, yes, I should imagine it has. Do you have a copy of your latest labs? If so, post the results and ranges here, and let's have a look.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

How much Levothyroxine are you currently taking?

Do you supplement any vitamins

Do you have autoimmune thyroid disease also called Hashimoto's diagnosed by high thyroid antibodies?

For full Thyroid evaluation you need TSH, FT4 and FT3 plus both TPO and TG thyroid antibodies tested. Also extremely important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

Low vitamin levels are extremely common, especially if Thyroid antibodies are raised

Recommended on here that all thyroid blood tests should ideally be done as early as possible in morning and fasting. This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip, best not mentioned to GP or phlebotomist)

Last Levothyroxine dose should be 24 hours prior to test, (taking delayed dose immediately after blood draw).

Add results and ranges if you have them or come back with new post once you get results

[SlowDragon Administrator]

See you have had RAI

Presumably you had Graves' disease?

Are you on strictly gluten free diet?

Can help Arthritis too as well as Graves (and Hashimoto's)

Changing to a strictly gluten free diet may help reduce symptoms, help gut heal

While still eating high gluten diet ask GP for coeliac blood test first or buy test online for under £20, just to rule it out first

Assuming test is negative you can immediately go on strictly gluten free diet




(If test is positive you will need to remain on high gluten diet until endoscopy, maximum 6 weeks wait officially)




Trying gluten free diet for 3-6 months. If no noticeable improvement then reintroduce gluten and see if symptoms get worse

chriskresser.com/the-gluten...

amymyersmd.com/2018/04/3-re...

thyroidpharmacist.com/artic...

scdlifestyle.com/2014/08/th...

Arthritis and gluten

healthline.com/health/rheum...

arthritis.org/living-with-a...

Low vitamin levels are extremely common with Graves. Important to get vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12 tested

After RAI you may benefit from small dose of T3 alongside Levothyroxine

20% Patients with no thyroid can not regain full health on just Levothyroxine

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

Indepth research into T3/NDT - very positive

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

You will need to find an endocrinologist or functional medic who will prescribe T3