aimeeDear Caroline,
I have Hashimoto’s Chronic Thyrodititis (auto immune genetic and environment maybe stress activated) that was borderline for years but no Endo would bother to tell me that. I went from normal thyroid to hyper (had a wild time and thought I was going crazy, fun moods) to hypo - weight gain, crazy periods, dark moods, hair very dry, could sleep and sleep- they try and push the depress route on ya and when that desn’t work and after Celiac Sprue ( auto immune down with wheat/gluton) was found by a good gastro doc and I mention the celiac to the endo it was oh lets take a look at the thyroid and you’ve always been borderline withthe amount of thyroid anyway was the hashi’s and wasn’t lucky to get treamnet until the endo was good and sure the thing wasn’t going to sputter back and the contrast solution from the three cat scans - cancer and gall bladder related really pushed the thyroid over....silly auto immune system attacking the thyroid and also the gluten/wheat w/ celaic. Anyway been taking the synthroid .112 for like a year now after they obseved lol and not hypothyroid anymore but euthroid (normal) that lab was 2 and I’d like to be 1 or heck even hyperthyroid.
I took prednisone at different mgs 5 , 7.5, 10 and don’t ever let a fellow meaning a resident that is assigned to your case...someone that is out there now being an Endo give you 20 mgs of the pred / day egads I went back to 7.5 pred on my own after gaining 50 pounds but still the pred wasn’t good for me and found the endo three years ago that I love ...for an Endo and the man does take my swipes about the past and he laughs at my sarcastic jokes he does try and before I told him that I wanted the hydro he went ...lets try Hydrocortisone and I like it - maybe a little more even in my actions but still an agressive person at times but withthe hydro I try to explain myself. My weight? I’m fat becasue I don’t exercise into a sweat and i eat to much of the wrong things like gluten free pasta and ice cream.
Good luck with whatever you do.