Posted by Ritch on October 22, 2002, at 22:57:09
In reply to Should I add SYNTHROID if T3/4 are normal???, posted by Chloe on October 22, 2002, at 21:27:46
> Please help. I am in a really bad crash...
> But I am cycling from giddy high (wee!) and happy to extremely suicidally depressed. My ECT is down to once a week and my mood is all over the map...
> Pdoc doesn't know what to do. I am glad I have a treatment tomorrow. I feel really desperate.
>
> My thyroid labs both came back normal. But my pdoc thinks adding a little synthroid will even out the cycling. Does anyone think I should add a med if my labs are normal? What side effects might I get? I ALWAYS get them, and bad. Is it worth it??? I just got off the birth control pill a couple of months ago. I am not sure I want to mess with hormones again. Mitch are you out there?
> Thanks any one
> ChloeChloe,
I would go with your pdoc's suggestion. You don't have to take very much from what I understand. I saw my "tdoc" the other day and he said my thyroid funciton was normal. The only concern is bone density loss if you are a post-menopausal woman and you take enough thyroid hormone which pushes your TSH down below "normal" levels. It may be worth it to push it down to "low-normal" levels.
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