I'm new to this particular forum, and am so happy to have found another one to share thyroid war stories! Happy to meet all of you!

Welcome! We're always ready to meet a new lowcarbing thyroid affected person! (and any others too).

I was just diagnosed with mild hypothyroid and put on 25 mcg of generic synthroid. I'm hoping that it will help get my turtle of a metabolism going (i was maintaiing/gaining on 800 calories per day). Hi there!

I've never seen a 'mild hypothyroid'. It's ok though, I'm FROM NY state and had to MOVE to get a doctor who would give me what I needed.

My thyroid doctor says 'mild hypothyroidism' is just like 'being mildly pregnant'.

Now, sprinkles, do you have Hashimoto's Autoimmune hypothyroidism? And are you converting that little bit of T4 into the T3 (that gives metabolism)???

There's a way to tell and I'd be happy to look at your copies of 'Free T3 (with the lab range used) and Free T4 (with the lab range USED) and TPO AB. TSH is senseless without those.

I never lost any weight from being 'properly replaced by T4 and T3'..it just 'evened the playing field' and made my efforts 'pay off'.
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I have to have both T4 and T3 (just like my real thyroid would make if it COULD) and take pig thyroid which also has T1 and T2 (like my real thyroid would make if it COULD). And I know I'm converting when I see my FT4 stay about midway of it's range, yet my FT3 is higher in its' range.

By Mild, I just mean that my ranges aren't insane. I realize TSH is crap. I don't have hashimotos, my thyroid antibodies are all negative.
TSH: .3
FT4: .9
FT3: 2.4 (multiplied amount)
So, bottom range of normal on FT4 and FT3.
Right now I'm on 25mcg synthroid to start. We'll see what it brings. If not, I doubt this doc will Rx armour or cytomel (she thinks I'm just there to lose weight), so I have a specialist lined up who I know will prescribe it/not judge me.

Please post ranges with those levels.

id start looking for a new dr NOW if dr isnt going to go higher than 25mcg. That is a low (safe) starting dose and likely to do nothing at all to those LOW thyroid levels.

Well, I have ONE name of ONE doctor now in the city, and I have ONE name of a doctor in NJ. And you might 'wheedle' synthetic T3 in an amount fit for a large cat out of the one in NY, you'd be better off with the Doc in Jersey, only because this one 'gets it' and Rx's natural as well as being very savvy with the synthetic combo.

12 members of my family (all female, ho hum, imagine that) did NOT spike ANY TPO AB nor TSI until about oh...at the least six years, and at the most, 11 years..AFTER the first test. One of my kids JUST got an enormous count for TPO AB after having been tested EVERY year for the last 11 years (oh yeah, when you are the kid of a thyroid patient advocate, you're getting tested, lol)>

If you don't get what you want, down the road...feel free to pm me for the doc's particulars. Best of luck to you, I had to start on that amount of synthetic T4 and then got very ill, as it's MADE from corn, and I am allergic to corn. But I'm 'lucky' to live quite close to one of the best thyroid specialists in the NorthEast.

I have 22 members of my immediate/close family in New York (City). Most of them come to my 'neck of the woods' (it's family, after all) and 'visit' a couple at a time, lol (I'm in a 'touristy' area for the summer months)..but they have NOT gotten good thyroid care in NYC. I'm less than astounded though, seen it the same for ever...like the Maryland area, too.