She frowned at the point that I haven't lost any weight, in fact I've gained.
She said that she will try to raise my medication depending on what the test results come back at.
I told her about my diet and that I had been eating about 1800 calories everyday for the past 2 months. I was so frustrated with no results. She told me that I needed to exercise more....which I have no idea when I will get to fit that in my schedule.
I asked her if there was some magic pill she could prescribe to me. I knew there wasn't, but it's always worth the try to ask. She smiled with sympathy and said phentermine would do more harm than good. I just sighed, got my blood taken and out of there.
I'll probably know what the results were Monday or Tuesday. Hopefully it went dramatically down so she can really bump me up to burn some cals.
I hope the increase in thyroid meds will help. I hate to say this, but it never helped me. I took Phentermine and I will never do that again. I initially lost, but when I stopped taking it, it all came back on, with some friends. The only thing I have found that DOES work is exercise. If you can find ways to add walking to your day...like parking further away from the door, taking the long way around, taking the stairs instead of the elevator...it will help. You might want to tweak your diet too. Maybe 1800 calories a day is too much. It sounds high to me. I am hypothyroid, and diabetic, and I stay around 1500 a day. Its hard for me to lose, even at that level and I walk, and do water aerobics usually 30 to 60 minutes each day.
Good advice from Monet, as always! I'm hypo too, and at your weight I had to drop my calories to 1200 to lose. And that was with 1 - 2 hours of exercise every day. I agree that exercise is our best friend when we're hypo - I know for sure I never could have reached goal without daily exercise.
Please don't give up hope! It really is possible to lose weight and keep it off if you're hypo ... even though we may have to work a little harder to get there. But it's so, so worth it!
Well it DID help when my doctor bumped up my meds a bit. Fortunately the test results confirmed what I could feel... I did need the extra.
But I have to say that you DO need to fit exercise into your schedule somehow. It is not easy for many of us but reality is that is what really helps us get in shape.
Actually, yesterday, I consumed 1500 cals and didn't feel hungry at all.
I've read the 3-hour diet book and it really seems like it would be good for me. It has me eating 1400-1500 cals a day.
As far as exercising, I think I'll take the dog for a walk in the evenings at the local park. I hope that's a start somewhere.
As for increase in meds, it has never helped me, but I keep thinking it would help. In fact, ever since I started on Synthroid, I've gained.
im borderline hypo w hypo symptoms and a goiter&am on .5 for the goter and in order to lose i had to drop my meds to .39 i thought increase was to help but it never did.
I agree that the walking really does help alot . Maybe not in the first few weeks but over time . I am walking an hour every night staying away from soda and snacks and making sure I take my meds every morning . I didn't feel better right away but I do feel better now . Good luck .
sharper do you have other symptoms of hypothyroidism? I have to get enough medication that all my issues are resolved or I don't lose wt. I ended up just increasing 1/4grain of medication and it was like my brain turned back on and I started losing (real slowly). I also exercise 1.5hrs a day and I eat protien at every meal. The protien takes away my appetite almost to the of nausea and I can eat less cals that way.
sharper do you have other symptoms of hypothyroidism? I have to get enough medication that all my issues are resolved or I don't lose wt. I ended up just increasing 1/4grain of medication and it was like my brain turned back on and I started losing (real slowly). I also exercise 1.5hrs a day and I eat protien at every meal. The protien takes away my appetite almost to the of nausea and I can eat less cals that way.
Well, I've noticed a huge difference as far as symptoms. I was really super cold and my fingers and toes would freeze numb. Sometimes my toes would be so numb that I could trip and fall because I couldn't feel the ground. I was freezing all of the time. Today, I'm still cold, but no numbness at all, so that's a big improvement for me!
I still drag throughout the day, but I'm not near as tired as I used to be. I could of slept all day long and never felt refreshed before the meds. Today, I nod off sometimes at work, but it's not near the amount that I used to.
The doctor told me that once I'm stable, I could then start to lose weight. And even though I've been pretty stable for 2 months, I didn't see a difference. Does it take a while of being stable before you started to lose weight?
As a thyoid patient I consider being cold and tired to mean my thyroid med isn't enough. Have you tried taking your temperature. Mine used to 96.3 and it came up to 98.1 when my medication increased. No wonder I was chilled all the time.
My symptoms decreased and my wt loss started right away. But I take some T3 which is fast- acting. Does your dr test free T4 and Free T3 levels? For me, my tsh can be completely normal but I'll run low in actual thyroid hormones. Sometimes I need more of one or the other to really feel good.
The more information the better! I read on http://thyroid.about.com/od/thyroidd...h2005study.htm which is a really good place to get the latest research and information about thyroid. T3 is the actual hormone our body uses, it is converted from T4. Some people don't do the conversion very well and end up low in T3. I had that problem so they put me on T3 and T4.
Here's the results of a small study done on it recently:
To summarize, then:
12 (46%) preferred combination (75 mcg levothyroxine/ 5 mcg liothyronine-T3)
6 (23%) preferred add-on combination treatment ( 87.5 mcg of levothyroxine, plus 7.5 mcg of T3)
2 (8%) preferred standard treatment (100 mcg of levothyroxine)
6 (23%) had no preference
All in all, 69% of the patients studied preferred a thyroid treatment that included the addition of T3.
The more information the better! I read on http://thyroid.about.com/od/thyroidd...h2005study.htm which is a really good place to get the latest research and information about thyroid. T3 is the actual hormone our body uses, it is converted from T4. Some people don't do the conversion very well and end up low in T3. I had that problem so they put me on T3 and T4.
Here's the results of a small study done on it recently:
To summarize, then:
12 (46%) preferred combination (75 mcg levothyroxine/ 5 mcg liothyronine-T3)
6 (23%) preferred add-on combination treatment ( 87.5 mcg of levothyroxine, plus 7.5 mcg of T3)
2 (8%) preferred standard treatment (100 mcg of levothyroxine)
6 (23%) had no preference
All in all, 69% of the patients studied preferred a thyroid treatment that included the addition of T3.
Thanks for the link! I'll definately bring this up to my doc next time I see her. I'll see if she's testing me for T3 too
had my thyroid checkup again this morning...
I'm hypo too, and at your weight I had to drop my calories to 1200 to lose. And that was with 1 - 2 hours of exercise every day. I agree that exercise is our best friend when we're hypo - I know for sure I never could have reached goal without daily exercise.
