Adrenal problems can cause this and hypothalamus. Not sure about the ear itching but I have had this with low thyroid and allergies.

Yes to both.....when my levels were hypo.

The only thing that helped me with these two particular symptoms was the achievement and maintenance of optimal levels.

Did you have to go on armour to obtain optimal levels? I looked at what drugs are covered on my drug plan and armour wasn't listed as covered nor not covered.

My doctor added Cytomel (liothyronine) to the levothyroxine I had been taking for 9 months.

I still wound up needing a few more levo dose increases after starting Cytomel before my levels were optimized back in June 2011.

Do you have some recent labs to share? (FT4 and FT3)

Many people do fine just with levothyroxine.

Your labs will tell your story....

I wish I did have my labs but my doctor has them on her computer. She does have a paper copy in my file. She never shares my results with me if she feels that my levels are fine. She goes by the ranges and doesn't say anything about optimal levels. I've been on 50mg of synthroid for a while. I was on 25mg for a long time before switching over to 50mg.

You can ask for a paper copy of your results. They're your right. She can't withhold them. In the U.S. anyway.

I don't think they can withhold them in Canada either. For some reason here my doctors have always just shown me my results on a computer screen. My doctor has her receptionist file away my results if she thinks there's nothing to worry about.

I have come across many Canadian members on forums....they have all been able to get hard copies of their lab results.

Your symptoms indicate the need for a dose increase.....50mcg is really a low dose.

I suspect your doctor is guilty as many are - looking at "normal" (aka in-range) levels and declaring the patient normal when the patient is anything but.

Thyroid textbooks are quite clear about the types of levels healthy people have.....I guess with the thousands of blood tests that can be done, doctors seem to forget this fact and patients suffer needlessly.

While my doctor isn't 100%, she's as close as I think I'll find. She recognizes that my "normal" isn't necessarily the same as another person's "normal".

She accepted my declaration of my optimal levels after I shared my symptoms journal as it corresponds to my labs.

If you want to achieve wellness, getting copies of your labs is step one.....learning how to interpret those labs is next and we'll show you how.

Thanks for all your wonderful advice cd! I wish my doctor was like you! She does just look at the ranges! A symptom journal is a wonderful idea or even just write down symptoms! Did you journal all symptoms even if you weren't sure they were related to hypothyroidism? I really do hope that my family doctor will refer me back to my endocrinologist. My endocrinologist was much more attentive to my concerns and would order more tests. She was concerned that I might suffer from multiple endocrine neoplasia.

Happy to help, DE

I had to learn about thyroid disease in order to escape years of suffering and be able to identify Dr. Right.

You might be interested to read this:

http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Hypothyroidism/forum/14455047-journal-success

Thanks CD!

I do have itchy ears and it has been that way for years. I thought it was due to a build up of wax or to allergies.

When I was having more problems with my adrenals not working so well my body temperature would keep changing from minute to minute. After being on Adrenal cortex for a while it helped. My body temperature is still a little low, but at least it doesn't flexutate so much.