samantha1966

Hi,

I havent posted for a while, I have been trying to get sorted, havent done a very good job have been to specialists and they are telling me that my symptoms cant be my thyroid cos the numbers are fine now, aaaaaahhhh they are worse now, my tsh is 1.32 my ft4 is 16.3 and my ft3 is 3.4 I cant believe they wont help me, my doc has said he will quite happily prescribe t3 meds if that is what the endo suggests, I am at my wits end, I cant eat any less, Im bloody starving, and I got a new job in February which I nearly turned down because I just wanted to sort my health out first, I just want to shut my self away, I hate what I have become, and my belly looks like I a 9 months pregnant, what do we have to do to make these people see, how the hell can my thyroid be fine, they did a cushings test and I had to come off my hrt for 7 weeks, my ft3 went up to 4.8 and I managed to lose half a stone and felt fantastic, but I couldnt sleep because of the hot fushes and had to go back on it, and of course this is what happened, the endo said every thing is ok and my doctor is to test for other things because it is not the thyroid, my levo thyroxine is working fine. the cushings came back fine, although I dont understand why they tested while off of the hrt cos hrt increases cortisol levels apparently, the cortisol 9am was 495. should I take a little more levo each day and regulate it my self or what cos the other alternative is that I buy t3 off the net or I start smoking again or I try and accept what is happening and I dont think that I can accept it, not for vanity but because I believe there is something clearly wrong with my body what with the inabililty to lose weight and how crappy I feel and the stomach distention, I have also had some results back from intolerance testing and I have a milk and egg intolerance, do you think this could be the cause of my water retention and maybe the reason for not being able to lose weight.

Sorry but I just wanted to rant and maybe some one has some ideas as to what else it can be.

Sam