Posted by Noa on January 5, 2003, at 19:40:30
In reply to Re: Thank you Jumpy, Mitch, and Laura-Noa, posted by nmk on January 5, 2003, at 18:29:44
I also, at one point, went the route of lithium because my pdoc thought maybe I had a bipolar type of depression. I got better for about a month, and then start getting worse and worse and really depressed. It turned out that the lithium made my hypothyroidism worse. Now, I could have stayed on the lithium, and just upped the thyroid doses, but I decided to look into the thyroid thing more thoroughly.
I had already been on synthroid and cytomel, but acc. to the endocrinologist I subsequently met with, my hypothyroidism had been way Under-treated. Some doctors are not up to date on recent research about undertreated hypothyroidism, and how to treat it. They go simply by the "normal range" of TSH, but for many of us, being at the high end of "normal" TSH is way too high.
The other thought to explore is that some people need both T4 like in synthroid, as well as T3, like in cytomel (there are other brands, too, but these are what I know personally).
Geez, I feel like we're having a battle of competing hypotheses here. I hope I am not adding to your stress.
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