They usually start you out on a low dose then adjust it up.
The dosage depends on your weight. If he gains the weight back his dose will go up .
My doc orders a TSH blood draw every 90 days. He doesn't go by the T3 Uptake or Free T4 or any of those terms---just the TSH =Thyroid Stimulating Hormone.
There are about 117 symptoms of Thyroid Dysfunction. Some of the ones I experienced were extreme weight loss,inablilty to sleep more than 5 hours at night, activity level could be desribed as 'the white tornado', very argumentive and then a sort of crash at which time I was a size 7. I lost all energy and experienced the beginning of a kind of depression (is this all there is? No body needs me?). A bit of a regaining of weight. A tic under my right eye. Headaches that would not end. Menstrual difficulties. Low sex drive (didn't want to be touched). Muscle, joint pains (thought it was just rhumatism setting it). Planar Fascia on right foot. A thingie (cyst) under the skin on my right palm which has a neat name but I forget. Rapid weight gain (wound up at 178lbs) accompanied by the tell-tell 'moon' face Trigger finger (finger would be frozen in bent position). Trouble BIG trouble with digestive system. Paranoia (H S and D all said that "You've changed!!) Sense of doom and anxiety. Brain fog. Powdery dry skin.
Hey---and that was without thinking!
Once I started meds my dry skin went away but I developed a rash (something in the Levoxyl causes some of us to experience this---it usually ends about 2 weeks into the new batch of med). My physical symptoms improved first, then mental, then emotional.
I had a theory that last symtoms displayed were the first ones remedied.
I don't thing Michele will mind if this subject is touched on here.
A lot of marriages don't surrive Thyroid Dysfunction. That T3 is vitally needed by all parts of your body. If you don't have enough of it in your brain, it will affect you.
Sadly, there are those out there who test out 'normal' but still have the symptoms. They have to seek help through the Health Food Stores. I don't know much about that.
I'd suggest you read up on the topic. Your H probably feels better and that's great. You, by gaining the knowledge about this Dis ease can support him.
