Ive been on medication for my underactive thyroid for some years now but just have this feeling of lethagy and mood swings, which i beleive is linked to Levothyroxine, any one else suffing.
Ive tried talking to my GP with little success and now trying to get a private appointment with an endocrinologist to discuss. My brother who live in the US also has the same condition and managed to switch his meds to another type of Levothyroxine that made him feel loads better.
Any help/advice would be very welcome and i can't keep going on like this.🙁
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The minimum blood test you need is a TSH, Free T3 and Free T4 reading and range.
If you can this from your NHS provider - well done you :
Many of us are forced to pay privately for our thyroid function test and should you have to go this route, you owe it to yourself to also run the thyroid antibodies, inflammation, plus ferritin, folate, B12 and vitamin D - as if these vitamin and mineral co-factors are not maintained at optimal, levels your ability to utilise and convert well the T4 - Levothyroxine into T3 the active hormone which runs the body, can be compromised.
The full thyroid panel is around 10 blood analysis and sometimes called an Thyroid Extra or an Advanced thyroid blood test or
Conversion of T4 into T3 can also be down regulated by any physiological stress ( emotional or physical ) depression, dieting and ageing.
If you go to Thyroid UK - the charity who support this forum you will find a whole page of Private Companies who can undertake the blood tests for you and then when with results, just start a new post with the results and ranges and you will be talked through what it all means and given considered opinion.
I see SDragon has already given you al the necessary information:
Presume your brother is taking some T3 - Liothyronine or maybe Natural Desiccated Thyroid - these were both available from your doctor if T4 didn't totally restore health and well being up until around 20 odd years ago but now becoming increasingly difficult to get on the NHS due to cost rather than medical need.
Well - you could be lucky and get all this on the NHS -
I now just arrange a yearly full thyroid panel and pay for a nurse home visit to draw my blood as it's the least stressful option -
I believe between them Medichecks and Blue Horizon cover the country and offer this service.
Read how to take your T4 medication - everyday - and on the day of the blood - and if supplementing anything leave off for around a week before so we measure what your body is holding rather than what you have just ingested.
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