Shirl,
There's nothing to be scared about.
The mistake that has been happenning from the beginning is that your thyroid levels have not been frequently checked and kept a track of to know what is happenning.
Whatever medicine you take, one has to depend on clear indications and not - this sympptom is better and that isn't and I'm better in general or emotionally better or that complaint is better....
I simply cannot understand regulating thyroid supplementation without proper lab results. And especially autoimmune thyroiditis. This condition fluctuates so much. You need to do a series of Antibody titres over 2 months or so and see how much the antibody level fluctuates. And also autoimmune damage that has already taken place in the thyroid tissue will not regenerate in a hurry.
IF you'd like an analogy, it is like trying to adjust Insulin levels in a diabetic without Blood sugar testing. If you get hypoglycaemic symptoms, reduce the insulin arbitrarily. If you get giddy or get an infection, increase the insulin arbitrarily??? That is simply ridiculous.
Please realise that the thyroid is a gland that affects the whole body fucntion. The body metabolism is almost entirely dependent on this regulatory hormone. SO its not like having a migrane headache. This is a central fucntion like insulin.
Whatever you decide to do, there is not getting away from this fact, or getting away from doctors, especially if you are dependent on them for getting your thyroid workup done regularly.
Please keep all this in mind as you go forward from now on.
Regards,
doctorleela
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