Once again, I wasn't really into the Halloween thing this year. It has been a while since I even dressed up. The last couple of years I have been passing out candy, the best part of course is seeing all the clever costumes. This year I missed even that since I had to run some errands this evening.
Otherwise, it has been an exhausting weekend. Not sure if it was my lack of sleep all this past week or what. Both afternoons I ended up crashed out on the couch for a couple of hours. I have also had chest pains / heart palpitations for the past three or four days. I have not had this issue since before my surgeries in May. I can't help but wonder of my thyroid med is behind all of this. Did i just have way too much Starbucks or could it be stress from work? I don't know. I'm planning on having my blood draw for the month (November) this Friday. If anything, that could possibly tell the story for my ENDO.
I was happy to see somewhat of an explanation on my ThyCa email group for very low TSH and above normal Free T4. Her levels are TSH .06 / FT4 1.8 where mine are TSH .01 / FT4 1.6 Supposedly, this is ideal if you are considered higher risk. I'm not sure what risk level my ENDO thinks I am, but based on everything he has told me, I thought he had me at a more low risk level if anything, maybe due to my age. I am still not understanding why lowering my Levoxyl dose should decrease my TSH - shouldn't it increase it? For example, when your TSH is too high, they increase your T4 med. So why then did the decrease lower my my TSH and not my FT4? I am still puzzled.
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