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Re: thyroid meds for pcos? - PanaceaFrom: Anne (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu, 9 May 2002 08:28:40 -0500 (CDT)
At Wed, 8 May 2002, Panacea wrote: > >At Tue, 7 May 2002, J.W.J. wrote: >> >>I am suspecting that this might have happened to me. I read the Atkins >>book and he said to do a temperature test to see if your thyroid was >>working correctly. According to him, it was not, so my doctor put me on >>Thyrolar just to try it for a few months even though my levels tested >>normal. I gained 24 pounds. I stopped the medication, but can't lose >>the weight. The weird thing was, I felt SO good while on the >>medication, and after I went off of it I felt so awful for awhile. >>Couldn't quite figure that out. > >What were your numbers throughout this whole fiasco? As long as your >numbers were never hyper (I'm talking t3 and t4 here, not the TSH) than >you were fine on the meds. Why did you stop them...? Did they start >making you feel sick? > >People CAN test "normal" and still be hypo. There are some intricacies >involved. > >-- >Panacea > You know telling someone to ignore their TSH numbers is just outrageously irresponsible, one needs to look at the entire picture and not just part of it. Not just T3 and T4 and not just TSH. Moreover, it sounds like she got into trouble but not looking at any of these numbers and gained weight from being made chemically hyper either because she didn't need the medication or because she didn't need the amount she was "prescribed". Anne
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