Please help!

[SMI2019]

Hi! I began menopause at 39, and apart from hot flashes that were kept under control with HRT, I was doing well. Happy go lucky, fun life. Then at the age of 50, I had a complete thyroidectomy due to multiple goitre which were Pre cancerous. When I went in for surgery I felt well both mentally and physically. On the other side of the thyroidectomy however I felt completely off balance hormonally. It’s now been 2 years and am on 180mg of nature thyroid having been found to be allergic to Levothyroxine.

I never struggled with stress anymore that the next person, even though I had 2 son’s self harm and myself a terminal cancer diagnosis, which happily I beat at 18. We emigrated to Canada, exciting not stressful at all. No racing heart, no feeling lost. And now, I feel both of those things immensely and I just can’t see a way through this nightmare, my TSH has come down to 7.6 from 96, I’m on a small dose of testosterone, but still don’t know what’s the symptoms of hypothyroidism and what’s menopause? I just feel so utterly alone.

[Wetsuiter]

If you have a TSH of 7.6, I think you can safely assume that all your symptoms are of hypothyroidism and that you need an increase in whatever treatment you re on.

Although, that said, i did have a Dr try to suggest that I had started menopause symptoms 10 years after my Pause.

Do you have any other results, such as T3 or T4? I'm sure someone on here'll keep you right.

[Lora7again]

Your dose is too low and needs to be increased because your TSH is too high. It needs to be around 1 or even lower imho. Also do you have any recent blood results for T4 and T3 because I think they will be low. Any vitamin levels you have would be helpful as well because we usually have low vitamin D, Iron & Ferritin and B12.

[SMI2019 in reply to Lora7again]

I’m allergic to Levo, and already take NDT as mentioned I take 180mg. I take 2,000 of Vit D

[Lora7again in reply to SMI2019]

What kind of NDT?

[Lora7again in reply to Lora7again]

It is ok I have googled and it is pig thyroid, you could try Thyroid Gold instead to see if it suits you. I took thyroid S last years and it suited me but I have also taken Levothyroxine which Dr Gordon Skinner recommended for me ... I wish we had another Dr Skinner ... he actually knew how to treat thyroid patients.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

The aim of thyroid hormone replacement is to increase the dose until TSH is under 2 (many need TSH significantly under one) and FT3 at least half way in range

When on a correct dose of NDT the TSH is usually well below 1.

Your results suggest you are very under dosed and need to increase slowly in 1/4 grain steps

Also EXTREMELY important to regularly test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

All four vitamins need to be regularly tested and frequently need supplementing to maintain optimal levels

Canadian Thyroid association on Low TSH

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Low FT3

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Osteoporosis

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