Total flare up. Need support & a few questions

[Queenofwands1212]

Hey everyone. Today has been the worst flare up day I’ve had In months, so be easy on me. I’m trying to figure out why I am flaring up and why my symptoms are the worst they’ve been. A little context, (I’ll put my labs attached as well). But I already eat the cleanest I possibly can. I stay away from literally everything hashimotos people should stay away from. The only thing I can think of that could have potentially sparked this is that I ate plain hummus last night as well as zucchini. This is where my heads at. I am already so hyper clean and careful with what I eat, I’m basically terrified to eat food for the rest of the day so I might just stick to juices and liquids.

My symptoms :

• heavy legs/ severe joint pain and inflammation. Feels like there is cement in my legs. Legs feel like they’re double the size . The only thing that helped a little was stretching in sauna for a couple hours but even still, my legs are swollen, stiff, tight, inflamed.

Could this be from increasing Armour from 15 mg to 30 mg? Does anyone have heightened symptoms within the first week of an increase?

I’m also thinking this could be hormonal. I didn’t get my period this month, but I have every single PMS symptom just no bleed, no releif, I’ve been using a bit of progesterone cream at night to hopefull6 bring it on. I also take vitex and shatavari.

• my urine is yellow and I’m not sure if it’s because of ketones ?

• weight gain

I’ll take any words of affirmation, advice, etc. my mother is scaring me saying maybe it’s lupus. But there’s so many things it could be. Change in meds? Food? Thyroid levels causing this?

Attaching current labs for context

Meds:

Armour 30 mg (just increased from 15mg)

[thyr01d]

Hello, I can't offer any advice so just sending you a hug because this sounds worrying and upsetting for you.

[Gingernut44]

Could it be the Armour causing the problem? Have you read the PIL to see if you are suffering adverse reaction to it. I have been trialling Erfa and couldn’t understand why the more I took the worse I felt. The Pharmacy that supplied it didn’t send the PIL and it wasn’t until I found it online that I realised that I was having an adverse reaction, maybe caused by hyper sensitivity to the animal protein. I ticked all the symptoms.

[Mggirl]

Hi sorry to hear your not doing well. When ever I have had to increase my dose of Armour I felt worse before it got better so hang in there and during flares I increase my calories to help my body have fuel to recover properly. So eat your body needs food for recovery. I hope you feel better soon.