Wed, Apr-08-15, 15:06
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Senior Member
Posts: 10,152
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Plan: LC--Atkins
Stats: 195/160/150
BF:
Progress: 78%
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Calling JEY and other thyroid informants
For the second time--a year apart--my TSH (okay, okay, I know) has tested at .01. The first time, on doc's advice, I agreed to a .25 reduction in the levothyroxine I've taken for decades. This had no noticeable effect on anything I could feel. After four months--with FT4 and FT3 tests I requested--he reduced it again, by another .25. I've continued to drop weight slowly but successfully on my LC program. I have no symptoms of anything associated with either hyper- or hypo-thyroid. I feel perfectly normal--and I don't think it's just the "normal" I'm used to.
After the recent test (.01 again--still indicating hyperthyroid), I'm anticipating a further reduction in this prescription.
My questions:
--Would a VLC diet over nine months tend to "normalize" thyroid function to the extent that I wouldn't need the dosage I've taken in the past?
--If I do go with a further reduction in levothyroxine dosage, what "symptoms" shall I look for? Or will that be perfectly obvious?
Of course, these are questions I will ask my doc when I see him at the end of May. But he's new (to me) and he "goes by the book." I'd like to have some outside opinions from people I've come to trust. And maybe some ammunition to take with me for the sake of argument.
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