It's been a few years since you posted. Have you come off your thyroid medication. I've been on thyroid replacement drugs for 5 years and am slowly reducing my meds. I am now at 50% reduction which is great. It's said that when you are on thyroid meds that your thyroid does not need to produce the thyroid hormones itself and that it atrophies due to lack of use. Just the same I am finding that if you take the proper supplements you can at least reduce your meds and I am hopeful to get off the meds one day. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism following the birth of my first son in 2006 and experienced many of the symptoms you have listed. I trusted my doctors completely assuming they knew everything there was to know about this disease, especially when I became pregnant again in late 2008. How wrong I was! Under their care my TSH, the gold standard for measuring thyroid function, rose high above the safe range for pregnancy and I miscarried. I vowed to myself that I would research everything there was to know about hypothyroidism and warn other women. I fulfilled my vow and launched my blog Hypothyroidmom.com in memory of the baby I lost to hypothyroidism.
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It's been a few years since you posted. Have you come off your thyroid medication. I've been on thyroid replacement drugs for 5 years and am slowly reducing my meds. I am now at 50% reduction which is great. It's said that when you are on thyroid meds that your thyroid does not need to produce the thyroid hormones itself and that it atrophies due to lack of use. Just the same I am finding that if you take the proper supplements you can at least reduce your meds and I am hopeful to get off the meds one day. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism following the birth of my first son in 2006 and experienced many of the symptoms you have listed. I trusted my doctors completely assuming they knew everything there was to know about this disease, especially when I became pregnant again in late 2008. How wrong I was! Under their care my TSH, the gold standard for measuring thyroid function, rose high above the safe range for pregnancy and I miscarried. I vowed to myself that I would research everything there was to know about hypothyroidism and warn other women. I fulfilled my vow and launched my blog Hypothyroidmom.com in memory of the baby I lost to hypothyroidism.
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