Hashimoto's and food allergies and other things

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First want to say I went to a new doctor today. Actually only visited with a nurse who will talk to the doctor. Most likely I will be getting HCG and monitoring on estrogen and ai if needed. Took total and free test levels as well as a thyroid panel including t3 as that has never been checked. Very affordable, 50 dollar visit and blood work is cheaper than what you can get things done at privatemdlabs.

So she thinks that we can get to the root of the problem, and hopefully get me off of hrt for life once they can pin point it. But it sounds like a costly ordeal. It involves changing diet for like 3 months at a time, and evaluating thyroid antibodies to see if certain foods are effecting this, causing inflammation etc. Is this for real? I mean I have heard all kinds of things about food, especially research I have done lately. But can certain foods cause that big of a change to my body that could cause this, or is this more of a shot in the dark that will waste my money?

[bass]

i know people who were very sick for years and got this type of treatment (special diet) and they were well again. sometimes our bodies gets so intoxicated our liver and kidneys can keep up, so fungus start growing and live in our bodies, and we get sick because of it. so a drastic diet along with supplement can get rid of the fungus but you really have to change your life style by eating mostly organic foods and such. some people are simply sensitive to processed foods! not sure about going off HRT though, i am a little confused there!

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I guess she and even my old doctor thought my test issue was likely caused by thyroid antibodies. And she thinks that if my body responded well by lowering the anitbodies that my thyroid would regain function as well as hpta. test is linked to thyroid in a way. hence why some people can have thyroid repla***ent and test levels increase on their own. I'm not an expert this is rough info.

[zaggahamma]

i've never heard of this

very interesting

it points to how its always thought that thyroid issues can have a direct impact on testosterone

so no medications bro? just diet? and what was your trt protocol and how was it working?

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They also mentioned sleep apnea and would send me home with a monitoring device, and then do a sleep study if needed.

Sounds like no medications once they can figure out the source of the elevated thyroid antibodies, and correct whatever that is. She felt my neck and thought my thyroid felt inflamed, tried to get me to feel it plus feel her neck to tell the difference, but I couldn't tell, anything other than my neck is big hers is not lol. Just as long as she doesn't get me to touch her elsewhere so I don't get in trouble.

Well my old doc bumped me up to 120 mg a week, I went to 100 mg 2x a week instead. I honestly don't feel like my libido is where it needs to be yet, hoping hcg will have a nice positive effect on this. But as for some of the other symptoms, on 100 mg 2x a week I have pretty decent energy during the day, I overall feel pretty good, I don't feel like trash like I did on 100 mg only towards the end of the week. I am guessing my test levels are close to mid range, but I will know for sure by next week when we get blood work. Maybe they are way high, I don't know, but it would be really odd on that high dose to not be on the upper end, I just don't feel anything like my early 20s.