At the end of my tether

[TracyCI]

Hi I've come across this forum by shear luck,at which I'm grateful for because I just don't know what too do...so here's a quick run down....from teenager up until around 10 years ago I'd always been over weight not alot but by about 2 sizes, I'm.5ft 7 and 55...I lost a considerable amount of weight just before lock down threw ptsd and just exercising more....nearly four years ago I started putting on weight...post.menopause...giving up smoking 2 years ago threw having copd...new job for the last 4 years...doing anything form 10,000 steps more per day....low thyroid since giving up.smoking and now I'm.just piling on the weight and just can't get rid.....I've been too the doctor and she says that I'm.not that bad...ie.doctor is a big fish lady...I'm 15 stone...I can't cope being this big ots really getting me down...seems the last five years no.matter what i do ...diet..etc nothing is working...pls pls can someone point me in the right direction...thankyou Tracy x

[moreless Administrator 7 stone]

Hi and welcome, TracyCl

I've just welcomed another person with hypothyroidism, so here's the link to their post, as the same advice applies to you healthunlocked.com/weight-l...

Here's a link to our pinned posts to get you started healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh... and I wish you all the best of luck

[TracyCI 2024 August in reply to moreless]

Thankyou so much moreless x

[moreless Administrator 7 stone in reply to TracyCI]

You're very welcome

[singlechip 2024 July]

I am hypothyroid and it took them years to diagnose it. However when they did and put me on levothyroxine I became obese. So I started to self medicate with T3 until years later I finally got it prescribed although still not enough so I had to continue buying it online until they gave me a bigger dose. I started to feel better and lost some weight on T3 but not enough because I was already too big. If I had the same weight as you T3 would be enough to reach my goal. However, since I am much bigger I had to start with Ozempic which I also have to source without prescription since this was the only thing that worked for me and I am losing my my weight steadily now. Problem is that doctors wait too long to diagnose you or they never do or you simply have subclinical hypothyroidism not showing in the blood tests, thyroid resistance, etc. And even if they do eventually diagnose you levothyroxine often makes people gain weight, this happened in many cases not just in mine.

[TracyCI 2024 August in reply to singlechip]

Hi singlechip thankyou for the feed back,I'm.on levothyroxine 50mg and recently had bloods and doctor told me all.levels were fine,were or how can I get T3 I'm also on hrt ...hate being.overweight x

[singlechip 2024 July in reply to TracyCI]

I researched hypothyroidism for years, blood test are not always showing what the real picture is. Because you can be having thyroid resistance for example. I mean there could be enough T3 in your blood but not in your cells where it should be. I will send you private message.

[moreless Administrator 7 stone in reply to TracyCI]

50mcg of levo is a starter dose and should have been titrated every 6 - 8 weeks weeks, until your symptoms receded. GP's are not very good at dealing with hypothyroidism, so I urge you to take advice from the members on the TUK forum who are far more knowledgeable. Never take any notice of a doctor saying your levels are fine, because that just means they fall somewhere within a range that has nothing to do with where you sit within that range. Eg, shoes come in a range of sizes, but if you're a size 8 and someone is trying to tell you that a size 4 is 'fine' for you, they would be very wrong.

You won't know if you need T3 until you know how well you convert the correct dose of T4.