Well - my weight hasn't budged an ounce, despite sticking really closely to 1500 calories a day, of totally healthy food, well balanced, and continuing to work out. There's no question at all in my mind that there's something seriously awry with my metabolism at this point - it's simply not possible to make this many improvements and not lose weight!!!!
My most recent thyroid numbers "look" okay, but I ran across some interesting research the other day. It says that while Grave's disease patients treated with radioactive iodine and put on replacement thyroid hormone after gain an average of 20-some pounds, patients who have radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid cancer do not. The reason? You put the thyroid cancer patients on higher doses of thyroid hormone afterwards, enough to suppress their TSH (and keep their thyroid cancer from regrowing). The authors of the study suggest that perhaps Grave's patients like myself should be put on the higher, suppressive doses of thyroid hormone.
I think I'm going to try it.
Thank god for the internet, because if it weren't for the numerous stories out there by other thyroid patients who don't feel well despite "normal" lab numbers, I'd think I was going insane!
On a sadder note - attended my cousin's funeral Monday. She was almost my mother's age - this is the one whose two son's died in the last six months of heart attacks. Now there's only her daughter, single and in her 40's, no kids - with all her immediate family dead (her father died when she was a girl). So very very sad.
