Spiders,
I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with a perplexing health situation,
and I'm hoping that our vast knowledge base might contribute something
useful (as it so often does!).
For several months now, I've been dealing with chronic insomnia. It
appears to have initially been brought about my colon stasis ("polite"
way of saying I was plugged up for a while). That was dealt with, diet
changed to be much healthier. My doc suspected my thyroid might be
involved as well, and testing determined I'm mildly hypothyroid. So now
I'm on medication - Armour Thyroid 30mg. After a couple of weeks, the
doc re-checked TSH levels and saw that although they had gone down, he
felt they hadn't gone down enough in those two weeks, so he increased
the dosage to 60mg. Since then my insomnia has gotten worse (every
other night I'm unable to fall asleep, even with sleeping pills).
I've just spent quite some time online searching medical forums about
this, and have learned that too high a dosage can cause marked
insomnia. A coworker of mine who also has hypothyroidism (for many,
many years) said it takes time to lower TSH levels, one has to be
patient. I'm also looking up info on hypothyroid friendly diets.
So I'm curious if anyone else has had similar experience to what I'm
dealing with here. Any input/thoughts, etc are most welcome!
Thurlow Weed
Lancaster OH
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