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I have heard it mentioned that as Methylation Cycle is improved, you might need to adjust Thyroid medications....ie. lower them.
Has anyone had experience of this?
Has anyone had experience of this?
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That didn't happen for me, and Fredd reported that he had to increase his dosage. One would think it could, or should happen, but I assume it depends on whether you have low thyroid due to autoimmune or something else.
Hypo- and hyper- thyroid symptoms have some overlap with methylation symptoms (i.e., exhaustion, anxiety, ear ringing, etc), so you want to keep on top of what your levels are and get tested if you are unsure. You can get a TSH test through Life Extension for $30 - $40 if your doctor doesn't give you a test.
Yeah, what happened to me was hashitoxicosis, as best as I can tell -- my doctor thought I needed a dose between 100 and 112 and suggested taking each one on alternating days. Within a week I was in the ER. My thyroid went totally nuts. It took 2 years to recover, numerous specialists, shedding Kaiser doctors like crazy, and I was even on disability for several months, could not walk at one point, could only sit in a chair in the back yard and watch the garden. It was traumatic, to say the least. That experience changed my whole outlook on life. Today I feel grateful if I can make it in to work 3 days a week and go walking in the hills.
It's almost too soon to speak of...but I dropped all thyroid meds about a month ago and my frees are now almost the same off meds. I will keep checking them but I am encouraged! Hopefully I will be able to keep them up.
On a recent office visit, my doc said my thyroid was enlarging a bit and to watch out for going hyper. He said if I had those symptoms then we would retest TSH and go from there. I'm on 30mg armour.
No, it looks like it was a part of my adrenal insufficiency (though that is often autoimmune). Before the AI was diagnosed, my TSH and free thyroid hormone levels were all quite low suggesting my body had turned down my metabolism as either a result of the missing cortisol or possibly as a result of chronic infection. But I've been working on the infections for a year now along with methylation and replacing missing hormones so I decided to see what my thyroid might consent to do off meds. My TSH spiked beautifully so I am hopeful that means my hypothalamus and pituitary are working better now. We will see how it continues to shake out in the next few months. I should be able to lower my steroid dose as well which will hopefully let me unload a few pounds I could do without. So I'm cautiously encouraged at this point...That's great! Was your diagnosis autoimmune? Or for another reason. My sister was put on Synthroid to address cholesterol, of all things. But once she started it, she said it was the only thing that had ever been able to really change her depression. She'd been on SSRIs for years.
Do you have Graves? I've heard that sometimes one can go from hypo to hyper.
But if you don't have a hyperthyroid condition, wouldn't it make more sense to be lowering your dosage if you have "hyper" symptoms? There is some overlap of hypo and hyper symptoms so it can be difficult to sort out. Fatigue is found in both of them, and for me, I had palpitations when I was either too low or too high. When I've had serious questions about my thyroid and my doctor will only do a TSH I just order the other tests myself. But if I'm feeling normal and just want to check, I just do TSH.