Originally Posted by ausi dream

Hi!I am just down the road to you, your chemist can give you a form to claim back what you pay on prescriptions until you get your new exemption card. I have just had to do that for my son.

Originally Posted by ausi dream

I have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, had it for nearly twenty years and sorry to say i still feel crap. At the moment i feel like i could sleepall the time but im lucky if i get six hours sleep a night with the children and then i am supposed to keep going all day.:curse:

Originally Posted by ausi dream

You say since you got on to natural thyroid, but what do you mean by natural thyroid? If you don't mind me asking.

Originally Posted by SW3105

Hi, I'm going to crash this thyroid party!

Just to explain our backgrounds, my Gran had hypothyroidism, my Mum has it, so I was regularly tested for it from age 17. My levels have always been borderline so I've always made a point of eating better than I used to thinking that maybe a diet could throw your body out anyway. I'm no calorie counter and believe everything in moderation is ok.

When I finally fell pregnant (after a year of trying) at age 26, I had my normal bloods taken and they took a sample for TFT's too, and it showed that they'd finally tipped over. I was put on a 25mcg Levothyroxine, 6 months later, that was upped to 75mcg. But it was too much, I help hyper, I couldn't sit still, my legs were tingly and kept 'walking', so we managed to even out the dose by taking 25, 25, 50 over a 3 day rota - don't ask me how I remembered which day was which, but I did! Anyway, after I had Clara and had finished breastfeeding - she was 7 months old, I started to get that hyper feeling again so took my meds down to 25mcg which I feel a lot happier on now. I have to go back in 4 months to have my bloods retested after dropping my meds by myself, but my doctor is really great. I told her what I did, and she said that only I know how I feel, and each case is completely individual, but if I'mso in tune with myself that I can feel when I'm low or high, then I have the medication available to me to self sort.

That's me.

My OH was sitting at home one evening - about 2 years ago and was conscious of his heartbeat, and that it was skipping. He was sweating and short of breath, so we rode off in an ambulance and he was rested and monitored and sent home.
It happened again a few weeks later and they kept him in overnight, the hospital took a lot of tests and ruled out a lot of other ailments, and it turned out that he also had hypothyroidism, so now he takes 25mcg a day too. His doctor was also very good and dealt swiftly with getting tests and test results and finally an answer to the problem.

We both feel a lot better now, my problem seems more difficult to deal with as I can go up and down like anything, but he seems quite stable and has done ever since he started taking his meds. He keeps forgetting to take it though, and hasn't for the last month and complained yesterday that he was feeling really tired so I've kicked him again to take his meds ...

That's us! Hi!

Originally Posted by flossie22

sounds gross-sometimes better off not knowing where all this stuff comes from.

Originally Posted by Jaycee1

Never heard of partners having thyroid issues!!
At least he knows how you feel and vice versa.
I must say this thread and the people on here have helped me a lot.J x

Originally Posted by flossie22

my nan had hyper active, my mum hypo active and I got diagnosed with hypoactive too. I am on 125mcg of thyroxine-I think its a real bummer-I want the one that makes u skinny. My BMI is fine-I go to the gym and work hard but I cant get back to my size 10-no matter how hard I try. I am between a 12 and a 14.

Anyone have any dietry advice? i know prawns and olives contain iodine and should be limited

please help-I wanna have a beach babe figure for Aus

xxx

Originally Posted by ausi dream

I have not heard that you are not supposed to eat certain things with hypothyroidism, can some one please tell me what and why?

Originally Posted by ausi dream

As for your husband he should take his medication near enough the same time every day to feel any benefit from it at all, as by missing out a tablet here and there he will feel the symptoms of it a week or two later not at the time of missing them.

Originally Posted by PaulandNic

Ok, well we've found out that the pharmacist has made a total cock up with Nic's meds ...

She should've been given 100MCG x 200 and has actually been given 200MCG x 200 ...

Sooooo, she took 200MCG a day for the first 3 weeks!

No wonder the doc put her down to 75MCG (thinking she was on 100) after first blood test after 3 weeks.

Only in Australia!

Oh and the dog is fine ...

Originally Posted by ausi dream

You will find that you will be monitored closely until you are on a stable level and then your blood tests should go to yearly eventually.
If your gran and your mum has hypothyroidism and now you then it would be hereditary thyroid condition i would think.

Originally Posted by flossie22

one benefit 4 hypothyroidism is that all nhs percriptions are free as it is a life threatening condition-what happens in aus?

Originally Posted by funkydelia

Just to introduce myself, I'm Delia and have had thyroid problems since I was 17 (I'm now 29). It was a speech therapist who spotted it as I had a goiter that was pressing on my vocal chords and causing vocal chord nodules. She sent me to endocrinologist who said I had Hashimotos disease.
To cut a long story short I've never felt right, took 5 years to fall pregnant with baby #1 and am still trying after 3years for baby #2, I'm about 5 stone heavier than I would like to be too.
I take 200mcg thyroxine like clockwork and get confused, tired, dry skin yet when I went for a blood test a couple of weeks ago the doctor's receptionist (yes, receptionist) told me I was fine when I phoned for my results!

HELP!

What do I need to ask for? I have a private GP available to me (which we use for our son's complex condition) but have never thought to discuss this with him. He's the guy who set up Netdoctor and is wonderful.

I never realised until I read this thread. I am one of the people that assumed that feeling this crap was normal because its been so long!