Gut test, normal
TSH is 1.8
On 50mg Synthroid + Cytomel
Starting LDN tonight
Ferritin of 20, sat 16% (doc said this is not the problem)
I feel dead, so fatigued I cry everyday and in a fog I don’t feel alive.
Iron sat: 16%
Ferritin: 20
Context:
- I have Hashimotos, take synthroid and cytomel and still feel like shit
- I am exhausted, I feel dead, I feel like I’m living in a blur. I can’t go on like this.
- 7 months postpartum
- doing gut testing, got all labs, etc.
- started supplementing but so far no symptom relief
- joint pain, headaches every single day, some take me to the er
Is this an absorption issue? (Pending gut results)
Is this normal? Should I push iron infusion?
The fatigue is unreal, I don’t feel alive, I feel dead, like a zombie. I need help now.
If it was a factor, how did you test for it? Did you test yourself and your house?
What was the cure or how did you solve this?
If it was a factor, how did you test for it? Did you test yourself and your house?
What was the cure or how did you solve this?
If it was a factor, how did you test for it? Did you test yourself and your house?
What was the cure or how did you solve this?
What changed your life, minimized symptoms, made you feel insanely better, lose weight? Conventional medication? Eastern medicine? Woo woo theories? Eastern medicine? What exact testing, gut/hormone? Supplements?
For context, I have Hashimotos + hypothyroid. Although, I have many additional symptoms that are progressing and may not be related to hashis (maybe a new autoimmune?). Weight gain, headaches, purple/yellow around my eyes, extreme joint pain, rashes and hives, exhaustion no matter what, muscle weakness. Taking Levo 50mg and liothyroine 10mg, which has lowered my TSH but done nothing to help with symptoms.
Tested for lupus, ANA, sjorgens, RA, Lyme… all negative.
I will go any route and change my life but I need to find something.
What changed your life, minimized symptoms, made you feel insanely better, lose weight? Conventional medication? Eastern medicine? Woo woo theories? Eastern medicine? What exact testing, gut/hormone? Supplements?
For context, I have Hashimotos + hypothyroid. Although, I have many additional symptoms that are progressing and may not be related to hashis (maybe a new autoimmune?). Weight gain, headaches, purple/yellow around my eyes, extreme joint pain, rashes and hives, exhaustion no matter what, muscle weakness. Taking Levo 50mg and liothyroine 10mg, which has lowered my TSH but done nothing to help with symptoms.
Tested for lupus, ANA, sjorgens, RA, Lyme… all negative.
I will go any route and change my life but I need to find something.
What changed your life, minimized symptoms, made you feel insanely better, lose weight? Conventional medication? Eastern medicine? Woo woo theories? Eastern medicine? What exact testing, gut/hormone? Supplements?
For context, I have Hashimotos + hypothyroid. Although, I have many additional symptoms that are progressing and may not be related to hashis (maybe a new autoimmune?). Weight gain, headaches, purple/yellow around my eyes, extreme joint pain, rashes and hives, exhaustion no matter what, muscle weakness. Taking Levo 50mg and liothyroine 10mg, which has lowered my TSH but done nothing to help with symptoms.
Tested for lupus, ANA, sjorgens, RA, Lyme… all negative.
I will go any route and change my life but I need to find something.
Not cry it out or anything longer than 5 minutes, but did just simply not rushing the min they fussed improve sleep or accidentally sleep train?
My 6 month old used to sleep 6-7 hour stretches in her crib every night. Now, she wakes up every 40 minutes or every 1 hour 1/2…. Literally. End up co sleeping but not great sleep.
Yes - enough calories, nighttime routine, great WW, enough naps, etc.
Such thing as accidentally sleep training? Thanks!
Boy, where do I start. Again, I am seeing multiple doctors and am very proactive. I will let medical professionals answer formally. However - I do believe in Western medicine you sometimes have to be the project manager or your own health. I am just coming on here to see if any of my new/original symptoms resonate with anyone and if they ended up discovering a new diagnosis.
In 2024, diagnosed with Hashimotos due to a poke allergy test where literally all 25 pokes reacted and were ‘abnormal’, overall fatigue, insane skin blotches, joint pain and extreme weight gain.
Fast forward, I take Levothyroxine 50mg and 10mg lythroine It has helped with my TSH number and getting pregnant (5months postpartum) but it hasn’t done anything for my symptoms or weight. Still there and in fact getting worse.
Scariest new symptoms as of recently that brought me to the ER: extreme sudden headaches, red eyes, purple/bruised eyes, red under my eyes cheeks, extreme fatigue, extreme muscle pain that led me to not lifting my arms up or being able to pick up my daughter, knee joint pain where even walking hurts, itchy feet. I attached some photos.
The muscle/joint pain is getting to a debilitating point where I have to take days off or need help with my daughter.
Tested for:
Thyroglobin Antibodies=elevated, but we knew this
RA=negative
ANA=negative ????????
All blood work, basically normal (we know what that means though)
Anyone experience these symptoms?
* this is a non sleep trained 5 month old baby. Not interested in sleeping training! Goes down rocking in a few min.
For instance, would love this schedule but every nap would need to be saved and contact to reach 60-90 min.
Any drawback to saving each nap in terms of not letting baby learn/push through their nap sleep cycles on their own?
*not interested in sleep training*
I have a four month old girl, who before she turned four months was a pretty decent sleeper. Good 6-7 hour stretches, feed and back to bed. Since she’s turned four months (and yes I understand the sleep cycle changes) — she’s been cosleeping with me. We recently put in a sidecar crib where it extends our bed for better safety and more space. We have a great bedtime routine, bath, hatch, don’t feed to sleep, etc. She has NO PROBLEM falling asleep. I am pushing her wake windows to 90min, sometimes 2 hours, but that is pushing it for her.
I am completely fine with our sleeping setup and obviously, not interested in any sort of training. However, she wakes after every sleep cycle and will not sleep on her back alone anymore. I mean she has to have me snuggle her or be on me. I don’t mind a wake or two in the night, after all she is a baby. But after every single cycle is exhausting, literally 20-30 minutes she stirs herself awake. She will not nap even ten minutes in a crib or bassinet, only on me.
When will she be able to connect cycles again and get long stretches? Will she be able to sleep alone in her crib again (me right there)? Did solids help? Belly sleep? Come with time?
Has anyone had this situation and eventually been able to lay down with them and they stay asleep? Maybe even get to roll out of bed eventually and they stay asleep?
Thanks everyone!!
*NOT INTERESTED IN SLEEP TRAINING*
I have a four month old girl, who before she turned four months was a pretty decent sleeper. Good 6-7 hour stretches, feed and back to bed. Since she’s turned four months (and yes I understand the sleep cycle changes) — she’s been cosleeping with me. We recently put in a sidecar crib where it extends our bed for better safety and more space. We have a great bedtime routine, bath, hatch, don’t feed to sleep, etc. She has NO PROBLEM falling asleep. I am pushing her wake windows to 90min, sometimes 2 hours, but that is pushing it for her.
Naps 3.5-4 hours a day (contact).
I am completely fine with our sleeping setup and obviously, not interested in any sort of training. However, she wakes after every sleep cycle and will not sleep on her back alone anymore. I mean she has to have me snuggle her or be on me. I don’t mind a wake or two in the night, after all she is a baby. But after every single cycle is exhausting, literally 20-30 minutes she stirs herself awake. She will not nap even ten minutes in a crib or bassinet, only on me.
When will she be able to connect cycles again and get long stretches? Will she be able to sleep alone in her crib again (me right there)? Did solids help? Belly sleep? Come with time?
Has anyone had this situation and eventually been able to lay down with them and they stay asleep? Maybe even get to roll out of bed eventually and they stay asleep?
Thanks everyone!!
NOT INTERESTED IN SLEEP TRAINING***
I have a four month old girl, who before she turned four months was a pretty decent sleeper. Good 6-7 hour stretches, feed and back to bed. Since she’s turned four months (and yes I understand the sleep cycle changes) — she’s been cosleeping with me. We recently put in a sidecar crib where it extends our bed for better safety and more space. We have a great bedtime routine, bath, hatch, don’t feed to sleep, etc. She has NO PROBLEM falling asleep. I am pushing her wake windows to 90min, sometimes 2 hours, but that is pushing it for her.
I am completely fine with our sleeping setup and obviously, not interested in any sort of training. However, she wakes after every sleep cycle and will not sleep on her back alone anymore. I mean she has to have me snuggle her or be on me. I don’t mind a wake or two in the night, after all she is a baby. But after every single cycle is exhausting, literally 20-30 minutes she stirs herself awake. She will not nap even ten minutes in a crib or bassinet, only on me.
When will she be able to connect cycles again and get long stretches? Will she be able to sleep alone in her crib again (me right there)? Did solids help? Belly sleep? Come with time?
Has anyone had this situation and eventually been able to lay down with them and they stay asleep? Maybe even get to roll out of bed eventually and they stay asleep?
Thanks everyone!!