Doctorleela, I went ahead and cut back my thyroid dose a bit and requested labs from my dr but haven't heard back from her yet. I'll be very surprised if she agrees to the labs since I just had them done a couple of months ago. I've had to learn over the years to adjust my thyroid meds on my own as I rarely get the monitoring I need and can't afford to pay out of pocket for it. But I know what I'm doing with it and achieved a total recovery 2 years ago without any monitoring at all. The problem at the time was that I had to take a high dose of medication to achieve recovery and it was putting me into premature menopause, which is undesirable as my husband and I are trying to conceive.

What's freaking me out now is that my body is no longer handling the medication the way it normally does so I'm not clear on what's happening or what to do about it. All I know is that I'm having thyroiditis, which usually means I need to drop down the dose of medication.

Chris, I'm encouraged that you had success in treating Graves disease. That must mean that autoimmune disease responds well to homeopathy, which is what I'm hoping will be the case for me.

I'm having a particular symptom which is bothering me from an aethetic standpoint and I'm wondering if anyone knows what it means. My face is swollen all the time now, regardless of the dose of medication I'm on. It used to swell if I was hypothyroid and that was one of the symptoms I would go by to tell if I needed to raise my dose or not. But now I'm swollen all the time and I have terrible puffy bags under my eyes and a very tired look. That's one of the reasons I thought I was hypo and needed to raise my dose, but now I'm not sure. Anyone know what could be causing that?

Here's what I thought I would do after considering all the suggestions offered here. I thought I would first lower my dose of medication and see if the thyroiditis abates. If I can get stabilized on a dose of medication that's more comfortable, then I would go back to my homeopath and let her retake my case and see where she thinks we should go from there. Does that sound like a sensible way to proceed?

Thanks,
Shirl