Does anyone experience itchy ear canals? Since my TT I have exema in my ear canals that drive me mad! That and brittle dry hair.

[Thissucks37]

Itchy dry skin and brittle hair since TT

[SlowDragon Administrator]

See you are based in Canada

Was total thyroidectomy due to Graves' disease?

For full Thyroid evaluation you need TSH, FT4 and FT3 tested. Also extremely important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

Low vitamin levels are extremely common after Graves

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).

[Thissucks37 in reply to SlowDragon]

No graves. Had suspicious lumps and they couldn’t rule out cancer so they recommended surgery.

[cm11]

Yes! on and off for a number of years, they are bad at the moment which is why I'm back on the forum! I'm sure its due to being hypo, steroids just clear it for a bit

[dinglebell]

My husband had this, turned out to be fungal, he got drops and an oral tablet I think, can’t remember now.

Worth a try, he said it was maddening.