Sat, Apr-09-05, 11:11
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Senior Member
Posts: 199
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 165/153/140
BF:
Progress: 48%
Location: Petaluma, CA
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It's been 3 years since I had RAI, and I've felt pretty good most of the time. I never even had my dose changed from the beginning, although it did take about a year before the hypo symptoms went away. I am just taking T4, Levathroid .112 mg. It does seem weird that my TSH and T4 levels are elevated, but the T3 is not. By the way the test was for total T3, not free T3
It's hard to say about the symptoms I have now. Some seem like hyper - my eyes are bothering me, grainy and dry feeling, my muscles seem weak, I've been working out for about 4 weeks and they still seem sore when I'm walking or riding my bike. And I am losing weight, I weighed today and I'm down another 2 lbs, that's 10 lbs in 3 weeks. However, I don't have the shakes like I did before, I have no trouble sleeping, I tend to feel cold, especially my hands and feet, my hair has been falling out more than usual (my endo said when this happened after RAI - much much worse than now - it was due to a change in hormone levels not so much a symptom of hyper or hypo), my BP is not elevated, it was 120/70 last time it was checked a couple weeks ago, and neither is my heartrate it's around 70 bpm.
I can see that the T3 levels are low compared to the others. Maybe that's why I have a combination of hyper and hypo symptoms. My GP has only requested a TSH test for about 8 weeks from now. I'm planning on calling her Monday and ask for the other tests to be done. I have Kaiser, an HMO, so you can only see the specialist if you are refered by your GP, I'd really like to deal with my endo.
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