So I went back to the nasty endo today. I realize now he’s a really old guy, and just set in his ways. For instance, when I told him I felt much better during the day on the 50 mcg of thryoid but that it gave me bad insomnia, he shook his head and said it “couldn’t” be from the thyroid because that was a hyperthyroid symptom, and you can’t be hyper and hypo at the same time.
Even though you can. Because the doctor who first told he thought something was off told me I had symptoms of both, and that you can have both at the same time if you have adrenal fatigue. (Oddly enough, I’d had a rather compelling dream many years ago where I heard a voice telling me, “You have adrenal exhaustion.” I’d never even heard of it, tried to look it up and couldn’t find anything. So I put it out of my head.)
Anyway, this is a very complicated condition and I don’t have the mental focus to untangle it all. Hopefully my primary care doctor will do that for me — at least, as long as I still have medical insurance. I get really stressed out, worrying about making that insurance payment every month.
You could also have Hashimoto’s, which is the fun cycling between hyper and hypo.
My sister had it and when her thyroid went hyper and didn’t come back down (she couldn’t sleep and had to eat every three hours for months), she had her thyroid removed.
Good luck.
Also Hashimoto’s Disease has both hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism elements. It’s an autoimmune disease and can be misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder (because of the ups and downs)! Read about it online. There are some very clear explanations. There are two tests that can be done – if you do any testing, you need both tests. Avoid soy, broccoli, spinach, kale, and, unfortunately, peanuts. Your regular doc can handle this. Get away from that old coot. And get some B complex for your adrenals.
Keep writing about this. I’m off to see my doc next week. My tests are all over the place. I’ve decided to take over. It’s ridiculous. We “over-the-hill” wimmenz just do not seem to count – and, anyway, it’s all in our once pretty little heads. You know, if we just weren’t so damn emotional! God, the stupidity.
In addition, the two symptoms that are clear indicators for me (I’ve spent years trying to understand hypothyroidism) that my thyroid meds are not strong enough are: insomnia (I generally sleep like a log) and really weird dreams, often very unsettling. I then get my thyroid tested and am proven right time and time again. (I no longer up the meds because alternative healing and natural supplements, as well as avoiding all soy, have stabilized me.)
So, I’m not an MD, but it sounds to me like either your RX isn’t strong enough or you’re in a hypo phase of Hashimoto’s.
He said I have none of the antibody response typical of Hashimoto’s.
If you’re talking about the old coot, I wouldn’t trust a word he says, but maybe you just need an up in dosage. Nobody really knows, and there are millions of us in the same boat.
He did up my dosage, so I’ll see if that works.
Chronic stress keeps the adrenal glands activated and exhausts them. Vitamin C can help the adrenals.