Journal

My hair has been growing in like crazy since a month on the iron supplements.  Feeling like I have more energy as well.  I found a new endo closer to home.  I went off of the cytomel and upped my Synthroid back to the original dose since I think the iron was the problem.  I would rather not pay for two prescriptions if I don't need them!  I have labs the end of September to see where my iron is at.

For the past month I've been really tired and my hair has been shedding.  My thyroid labs looked great.  I insisted my endo start me on Cytomel anyway, I needed to try something for the fatigue.  It helped for the first few days...then the exhaustion came back.  I went to see my GP to run other labs for me.  I found out my iron and ferritin levels are very low.  Explains it all!  I went to whole Foods after work today and bought some Floradix iron supplements.  I read really good reviews online for it.  I hope this does the trick.  I've actually heard that we can have low iron, so if anyone else has thyroid labs that look good, but are feeling hypo...have your ferritin levels checked.  I'm really glad I finally did!