Worrying throat pain/tightness

[simone22]

Please help I'm so worried I don't know what to do.

My thyroid tests came back indicative of hypothyroidism, which others have agreed on here. I built up to 2 grains of NDT Thiroyd. Then my results end of May went much worse:

TSH 0.07 LOW (REF: 0.27-4.2)

T4 Total: 49 LOW (REF: 64.5-142)

Free T4: 9.79 LOW (REF: 12-22)

Free T3: 3.35 (REF: 3.1-6.8)

Now I was worried about simply increasing my medication, as I felt uncomfortable that my results before this were NO WHERE near as bad! and I felt that by self medicating I had made my results worse! i.e. I had caused supected hypothyroidism to become hypothyroidism....plus I'd been taking iodine and after some reading thought maybe that had caused it? so now stopped that.

Anyway I started increasing from 2 grains but felt unwell and I've been getting really really uncomfortable throat discomfort low done in my throat which feels like someone pressing on my windpipe - this is really really worrying to the point I want to come off all medication strating tomorrow and see what my thyroid does....and if in 6 weeks I'm having symptoms, then I will go to my doctors and get an official diagnosis rather than medicating myself - I feel like I am ruining my thyroid and causing some serious damage messing around self-medicating.

Please has anyone experienced this throat discomfort, windpipe blockage feeling, someone pressing on your throat feeling?

Also please advise what will happen if i stop meds tomorrow - anyone have any ACTUAL experience?

Thank you

[greygoose]

No, you can't do any damage to your thyroid by taking NDT. Thyroid hormone replacement, has no effect on the thyroid. It may cause the thyroid to reduce the little hormone it was managing to produce, but that will revert to normal when/if you stop taking NDT. Don't worry!

[simone22 in reply to greygoose]

Thank you.

Do you have any idea what would cause the constricted sore throat feeling - I'm worried my thyroid is growing!

[greygoose in reply to simone22]

It could just be swollen.

I did have that sort of symptom, many years before I was actually diagnosed, but it went away by itself. Now I know more about thyroid, I think it was because my thyroid was swollen, but, as the Hashi's destroyed more and more of my gland, it got smaller, and ceased to press on my oesophagus.

[Saggyuk]

I would possibly go down a little slower rather than the whole lot in one day as might be a little bit of a shock to your system if you really want to come off maybe??

[simone22 in reply to Saggyuk]

Thank you how long will it take for NDT to leave my system?