Howdy,

I happened to run across this list and thought I would susbscribe. I apologize if you see this twice due to a mixup in my e-mail address.

I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism last fall and started on daily thyroxine pills. It had been obvious for some time that something was wrong, but it went undiagnosed until a blood test came back suspicious. In retrospect, it should have been obvious from the dry skin and the being cold unless in a very warm room, but I get the feeling that these days doctors are more likely to rely too much on blood tests.

One thing that was kind of strange was that when my prescription was increased in January from 50 mcg to 75 mcg, some problems that had disappeared came back again. When I refilled that prescription, it started improving again. I'm curious if maybe I had a bad batch of thyroxine because it was almost as if I wasn't taking any at all. Has anyone else encountered such a problem?

I'm not sure if it is the thyroid, but my blood sugar was much different than before. I had always been on the high side of the normal range and now I'm prediabetic. Also, my systolic blood pressure which has been quite consistent has suddenly become much more volatile over the last couple of years. The first time I ever had a blood systolic blood pressure reading more than 135 was when I started going mildly hypothermic when exposed to cool temperatures a couple of years ago. Now about half the time it is higher than that with readings as high as in the 160s! This morning it was a more normal 123/82.

One thing I'm curious about is whether symptoms like this, if not independent of it thyroid problems, might level back off once the blood levels become fairly normal. A couple of months ago, I went to the county library (I'm in a relatively sparsely populated county - about 1 person per square mile) to get a book by interlibrary loan on the clinical management of thyroid disease but they couldn't find it. For that matter, so far they haven't been able to find any book I ever requested by interlibrary loan!

Well, I'd better go. I don't want to ask all my questions in one post.

Eric


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