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Anita’s Story

Thyroid Treatment:
T4/T3

Adding T3 to My Thyroid Treatment Has Made Me Feel Fifteen Years Younger!

One year ago, I endured a humiliating appointment with the family doctor I have had for 30 years!

I had been on T4 for 14yrs (since I was 40) & getting more hypo by the year, until I had to leave full time work last January because I was so tired with no energy, dosing off while driving & debilitating aches & pain in my legs.

I asked him about ‘other’ thyroid treatments & compounding chemists. He said he’d never heard of them……I had the time to be able to research for hours on the net & found great info including a useful thyroid patient forum. A DVD of an interview with the wonderful Dr John C Lowe opened my eyes wide to ‘other’ treatments.

I now have a brilliant integrative thyroid/hormone specialist doctor (a colleague of Dr Lowe in Brisbane Australia -LUCKY ME !) who has turned my life around. I’m a month into my 4th increase of a compounded ‘modified release’ T4/T3 medication (40mgT3/75mg T4 +14000 ius Vit D).  No fuzz, not tired & good energy & 95% of pain gone – YAY! And he say’s there’s still more improvement to come.

I had a problem converting the T4 to T3 so from the first dose of T3 I have noticed major improvements. Having just gone thru menopause my doctor is watching my hormones as well. Now I only have small naps for pure pleasure….

My 27 yr old Daughter is now having various issues & will be making an appointment with my specialist doctor. So we went to my/her GP to ask for all the blood test to see if there’s any obvious area to work on & he CARRIED ON LIKE A PORK CHOP again…..I just watched his performance with a dead pan look & my daughter walked out with ALL the blood tests requested – full bloods, liver, iron, FT3 & FT4 (he asked why the Free hormone tests? – Duh *smacking forehead), Thyroid AB, vit D & B12, folate, DHEA, fasting cortisol.

WINNING helps to make you stronger though – and I did secretly enjoy getting under his closed minded skin….. hehe. One thing he can’t deny is the difference in me – if he bothers to look at me rather than looking at the computer & mechanically repeating my blood results are in range….’WHERE in range is what’s important’

I felt very frustrated again, but in a couple of days that passes & when you have got to a stage with major improvements as I have, I look back & realise they were turning points in my life & health that just had to happen….& now I will make sure my daughter doesn’t repeat my last 20+ yrs of not being hormonally balanced.

DON’T GIVE UP – RESEARCH – CHANGE DOCTORS – INVOLVE YOURSELF ON PATIENTS THYROID SITES!

There’s soooo much good info out there. It’s your life & you deserve to feel ‘normal’.

The addition of T3 has made me feel 15yrs younger. Woo hoo!