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recent thyroid rant

(why am I here?)
I have have hashimoto's for 10+ years (one of the causes of hypothyroidism - low thyroid.)
(if you have HYPERthyroidism, possibly grave's disease, some or none of this might help you)
hypo runs in my family, sister couldn't get pregnant without thyroid replacement therapy ...

I have spent years fighting with doctors about proper dosing and what is normal. Those numbers have changed a LOT over time and so many doctors are behind the times or have no CLUE.
sigh

Being "in the range" is the WORST POSSIBLE answer you can get from the doctor.
If you are having trouble getting pregnant and there MIGHT be a thyroid problem, make CERTAIN that they have tested you for the anti-bodies. If they have not, insist that they test you.

if you have the anti-bodies, then you have hashmito's and you have HYPOTHYROIDISM.

when they test the TSH, your GOAL is to get between .4 and 1.4, where 1.0 would be awesomeness!!

3.8? you are crazy low. all these stories about people getting their levels fixed and then getting PG exist for a reason!!

fighting with your doctors over this is one of the silliest and hardest things. and so trivial, easy and cheap to fix.


http://www.tpauk.com/docs/symptoms_hypot.pdf

this is an awesome checklist. it has symptoms which PATIENTS have found that come and go as their thyroid is PROPERLY treated. some of these symptoms are INSANE and no doctor will listen to you, BUT, you will find the problems going away when you get proper dosing? so it MUST have been that right?? :D

I am not a dr. but fought for a decade to get higher dosages and more frequent blood tests.

sigh
the number of people in the US, who are subclinical and untreated ... sigh

anyways
I hope this helps 1 person.
do not accept "normal" and in range.
get the actual numbers and then go read about people with this problem and how even a SMALL change can have huge impact!!
do not accept my word, the more you read online, the more you will shake your head.

if there is any doubt and they have NOT done an antibody test, get one, either way it will help with the solutions


Good Luck!!

gtx 590 - wow is slow making me sad

win 7
0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583
valuemax = 0
no more core parking ...

DPC lat checker
nope, not this .... sigh

2011 08 14 3pm
so the next insanity is to try an older driver
specifically, using the driver 267.91 (71?) which was the driver used on tomshardware.com for the 590 benchmarks ...

the only good news is at the LOWEST video settings, things are possibly playable

FFS
the solution was changing the DX setting in wow from DX9 to DX11???
sigh

you would THINK that using a lower version would not cause so much problems. FFS!@!~#!#~!#!#

chart of my TSH vs replacement. (the goal is to get the TSH to "100")
as you can see, I have never tested even CLOSE to 100. fucking doctors are so worried about over shooting. ARGHHHH. hopefully I am close since the last increase.

https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US&key=tszf3UHYvV5RycApvaWVIpg&hl=en_US#gid=11

driver sweeper

http://phyxion.net/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper/Version-3-1-0/

thyroid email to denise

normal is a STUPID word when discussing this.

they LITERALLY have no idea what the NORM should be because they have no way to remove sub-clinical hypothyroid people from the sample.



when you got your TSH tested (the "gold standard") ... yours was 1 if I remember correctly.

if you are above 5, they test more to see if you have anti-bodies and then give you replacement ...

BUT, internists think that if you are BELOW 5, that you then have ENOUGH ...



WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG



first thing my specialist said when I showed him my old records was that I HAD NEVER BEEN PROPERLY DOSED!!!! UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH



so .... the GOAL should be 1.0 .... most doctors will STOP around 3-5 FFS @#!@#!~@#@!~#!~@#~!@!



so yes, you titrate the dosage

you want to get close without going over ...

0.5 is OK ..... 0.1 is BAD

HYPERthyroid is HYPER

all kinds of heart problems and hair breaking and and and and and and

but this happens over TIME, so you up the dose, if you go to far, you lower the dose ...

rinse and repeat



date : TSH : dosage

8/19 : 1.89 : 137
1/29 : 1.5 : 150
3/30 : 1.89 : 160
?/?? : ??? : 170
6/10 : 2.11 : 170

so as of today I am upping my dosage to 180



so CLEARLY it has been getting WORSE, not better

which given that it is an autoimune disease makes some sort of sense

the thyroid is producing less and less over time ...



oh yah, that happens to everyone as they age

oh yah, supplement reverses the aging too ???

FUCK TARDS @!#!~@#~!#



this is the CHEAPEST POSSIBLE way to treat and prevent about 100 illnesses !!!!!



I gave some of my OLD 100umg pills to jillian and she started taking 50umg daily

almost instantly fixed a number of problems she was having ....

her numbers were starting to creap into the 1.7-1.9 range if I remember ...

SIGH



one COOL thing that happens if you take too much: POLYURIA

you piss 24hrs a day non-stop

bwehhahahahahaaha

I drank and pissed like a race horse

DING DING DING DING

TAKE LESS YOU TARD



hahahaha

laters

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