Question: I had 3/4 of my thyroid removed a year ago. Since then everything about me has changed. At first I was on 200 mg Levo but I was so tired I could not get out of bed I started gaining weight and my hair started falling out. I switched to 1 grain of Armour thyroid and it seems to make me ultra sensitive to the slightest stress, I either become mean, or so anxious and paranoid I want to run or cry. I have an incredible lack of focus now, I have gained 30 ponds, my hair is still falling out I get cold .... it goes on and on. I look like a different person, I swell up, my hands feet, and face. I have read a lot about thyroid meds, dos don'ts, lab tests, dosage, but although my job is IT my new inability to focus seems to have dumbed me down I guess. I do not know what to do. The one thing that is clear is that no matter what a regular TSH lab may say, normal range is not normal if I feel abnormal! Please help, my quality of life, my marriage and my career are falling apart.

No. I truly do not believe it is depression!! I have a wonderful life. Truly blessed. Its not depression although my symptoms are depressing. Lol. Endos just want to give t4 and tell you you are in range and disregard how i feel. If i take a mega dose 50,000 units of vit d2 along with armour it seems to subdue the anxiety and shakeness i get from armour but i m so fearfull of taking the armour because when i do i have a short temper cant focus and i get angry. I m not normally an angry person. Iit only happens when i have taken the armour for a few days. I have never gone past 2 weeks of taking it every day because of getting angry or overly emotional. When i stop taking it i m no longer angry but my original tired bloated listles symptoms are back. Did u look at the pictures i sent. The are 1 year apart. When i take the armour even for a week some of the thickness in my face goes away. Is there something i can take with armour or another nd thyroid i can try? I m very pleased it was you that responded to my ?. I read one of your replys and saw that you seem to understand t3 opposed to T4 . Everything i have read says to increase t3 after 2 weeks by 30 mg (1/2 grain) until you reach an optimal dosage to aliviate symptoms. I tried it once when i first started and it was disasterous. People thought i was on drugs and my memory of what happened what i did and said was foggy and took several days for me to recall. It scared me and i have been afraid of armour ever since. I take it a few days but then i start feeling fatigue in my arms.... I assume it is related to adrinalyn...(sorry no spell ck here) so i stop. Is it just a stage i need to press through? Should i take t4 or t3 and t4? I m