Idiot doctors.
If you had not, have not, been using iodized salt, that may be a big factor in your problems.
Please follow these links, found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- thyroid basics explained – check oral body temperatures as suggested
- finding a TRT doc
If you supplement iodine and do not have selenium in your multi-vits, there is a risk of problems with your thyroid.
Is thyroid enlarged, lumpy, sore, asymmetrical?
Get cold easily?
Generalized hair thinning?
Outer eyebrows sparse?
Your thyroid labs are sending a mixed signal and your docs do not know what to do.
I suspect that you might have elevated rT3 that blocks effects of fT3.
That involves adrenals and can be made worse by starvation diet attempts.
If you have elevated rT3, you cannot take T4 hormone because that will simply increase T4–>rT3.
You would need to take only T3
Please discuss:
stress in your life
stress events, crisis
illnesses, infections, inflammation
accidents, surgeries
Post what labs you can in list format with ranges.
TT
FT
E2
LH/FSH - too late now!
prolactin
CBC
hematocrit
iron labs and ferritin
AST/ALT
AM cortisol [ at 8AM please]
DHEA-S
IGF-1
fasting glucose
A1C
fasting cholesterol
Post labs and get docs to produce old lab data.
Post oral body temperatures.