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Luckystar
what were some of your other symptoms with your thyroid? I feel like I shed hair like crazy and when I brought that up at the doctor, she mentioned thyroid. We did the basic metabolic panel and I was very vitamin D deficient, but she said everything else was fine. I thought one of my thyroid levels was the low end of normal (T4, free count was 1.0 and the range listed .8-1.8). I've been taking Vitamin D supplements and while I feel less tired - I'm still shedding like crazy. I didn't question her on the thyroid as I figured she was looking at my results, but now I'm wondering if I should bring it up again...
Re: Luckystar
I did shed a lot of hair too, but wasn't something I really thought too much about at the time.
What tipped things to actually get on meds was that my dr actually felt my thyroid (originally didn't see me just gave me lab slip) and it was enlarged and I had nodules. I also have antibodies so I would eventually be hypothyroid at some point. So they started me on meds to shrink nodules. Then I started going to a dr who worked based on symptoms and not just numbers. I started out on a very low dose of 25mcg and then kept increasing. I think I went up to 100mcg and stayed there for awhile. I'm currently at 125mcg.
1.0 is on the low end of normal. Do you know what your TSH was? My T4 the last two times it was checked was 1.5 and 1.6 (range is .9-1.8). I haven't had a dose increase in a while so those numbers were good for me. They didn't test T4 that much in the beginning so I'm not sure what it was when I was having symptoms. I know my TSH needs to be about 1. Anything over 3 and I start feeling bad even though my labs range is 4.2.
The TSH isn't bad. It's higher than I like for myself but could be ok. Certainly low enough that most drs wouldn't treat. I think that it's something Id revisit and have tested again if you are still having problems. Did she test for anything else? Isn't hair loss common in anemia too?
Hmmm...I have mirena as well. I wonder if there is some connection.