Jeninaustr,

I'm totally convinced I did this to myself with excessive dieting and exercise. It really sucks to think I was "doing everything right" and making myself very sick. Nancy mentioned anorexia, but I don't even think it has to be that drastic. I was eating 1500-1600 cals a day and exercising 6 times a week (I weighed about 280 at the time). 7 months at those levels resulted in no weight loss and put me close enough to starvation for my body to hold to every single ounce! I was not converting T4 to T3. No wonder I felt so bad. But the end result is that I'm doing a lot better on Armour and I'm hoping with moderate diet and exercise I can actually lose some weight now. And the best part, all my terrible symptoms, brain fog, fatigue, freezing cold, have greatly diminished.

Here are my test results from Jan 05:

TSH: .4
Free T4 1.5
Free T3 222 (range 210-410)

Look familiar?

My original doc told me my thyroid was fine. I still felt terrible! If you can find a doc to treat based on symptoms and Free T3 and T4 you should be able to get some of those symptoms under control.

Good luck!