Hypothyroidism Support Group
Hypothyroidism is the disease state caused by insufficient production of thyrohormone by the thyroid gland. There are several distinct causes for chronic hypothyroidism, the most common being Hashimoto's thyroiditis and hypothyroidism following radioiodine therapy for hyperthyroidism. Advanced hypothyroidism may cause severe complications, the most serious one of which is...
I was daignosed with hypohyroid about six months ago. They started treating me with levothyroxine and cytomel. Every dose about six weeks in i start to feel great for about a week and then ill start to feel like crap again. My sleep schedule will get all messed up again. Ill feel really fatigued like i cant sleep enough and i also feel just not well.
Im taking .125mcg of levo and .5mcg of cytomel currently. My endo called last week and said my levels are now therapeutic. Is it possible for the blood tests to say my levels are good but i still have symptoms of hypothyroid?
Im taking .125mcg of levo and .5mcg of cytomel currently. My endo called last week and said my levels are now therapeutic. Is it possible for the blood tests to say my levels are good but i still have symptoms of hypothyroid?
Complete symptom relief doesn't happen for several weeks, if not months *after* optimal levels have been achieved....and are maintained.
I'm not sure what your endo means when you were told your levels are now "therapeutic" but, I suspect it means that your levels fall within the normal range.
That usually isn't good enough since we each have optimal ranges of levels....within the normal range. Thyroid textbooks refer to these as "setpoints".
You have a bit too many symptoms at this point for me to think that your levels are at your setpoints.
Usually, once we achieve optimal levels, there are just some minor, residual symptoms that slowly dissipate.
Healthy people have certain types of levels and those are the types of levels that keep me free from thyroid symptoms.
If you'd like to share your most recent labs (with ranges), we can tell you whether or not your levels are similar to those that healthy people would have.....that's really the best place to start.
The thing that makes me wonder though is that I felt really good until a couple days after they took the blood for my thyroid. That seems to be happening to me every time they increase my dose. I feel really good about six weeks in on the new dose and then almost all of my symptoms return, which is pretty much telling me that my dose isn't good yet. I think when they checked my thyroid it looked normal because I felt really good at the time.....if that's possible.