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To be careful giving medical advice, and not sounding like I'm a holisitc nutjob. This is completely a personal experience and YMMV... I have Hashimoto's Thro
by rit 16y ago
To be careful giving medical advice, and not sounding like I'm a holisitc nutjob. This is completely a personal experience and YMMV...
I have Hashimoto's Throiditis as well. I've spent ~15 years struggling with Synthroid - constant sensitivity to heat & cold, exhaustion, etc. I went through constantly fluctuating dosages, etc. My doctor tried mixing Cytomel in which helped a bit but not completely. I've had a lot of trouble with other synthetic drugs in the past (I don't seem to metabolise them well) and switched to "Natural" thyroid (quite literally dessicated thyroid gland from a pig - it contains the exact hormones the thyroid can't make with Hashimotos). It has made a HUGE difference for me. There have been some supply problems in the last ~12 months which seem to have smoothed over (It's available in a few brands - generic is I think just "thyroid", there's also Naturthroid and Armour).
I am not a doctor, and by no means a homeopathic nut - in this case the difference between this and Synthroid is it's an exact copy of the hormones you need rather than a synthetic analog (before Synthroid came around, for ~100 years this was the standard thyroid treatment). It has made a big diff for me after years with no luck.
It may help - in the last year I've had a big improvement from switching (weight loss, sleeping better, etc etc).