You're all very kind and I feel encouraged today, especially after reading the recommendations regarding thyroid dose adjustment.

My homeopath did recommend monitoring my levels and dose throughout this process and my primary care dr did run a couple of labs, but my insurance is stingy about how many labs they will approve in a given period of time. So I'm not getting monitored as frequently as I need to.

I decreased my dosage of medication twice since getting the first remedy, but continued to feel bad and thought I had made a mistake so I increased it again twice in the last couple of months. The last two increases have intensified my symptoms and just last night I began to wonder if perhaps the remedy is, in fact, assisting my thyroid function and the medication is too much now.

What scares me is that my immune system is reacting so strongly to the medication. I thought the remedy was supposed to work on balancing out my immune system? If I react strongly to the medication, then I'll react the same way to my own thyroid function. That's why the allopathic treatment is to suppress thyroid function or remove the gland. So I was trying to get my dose of meds back up high enough to suppress my thyroid function. But maybe that's no longer an option since taking this remedy. I hope I don't end up in a state of not tolerating my meds but not having sufficient thyroid function on my own.

My homeopath did suggest lowering my thyroid dose again a few weeks ago, but I was scared to. Perhaps I've been unfair to her and should now follow through on her recommedation to see if the medication is in fact the problem.

I would love to be free of medication and have normal thyroid function. But what if my thyroid is too burned out or scarred to ever regenerate? Can the autoimmune component of the disease at least be cured at some point so that I'm not "allergic" to either my own thyroid hormone or the meds, in the event I need to stay on them for life?

This dialogue is very helpful to me in understanding the process. Maybe I don't have to give up on the homeopathy afterall.

Shirl