Reddit reviews Hashimoto's Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back

You have very good instincts. I went to 8 different doctors before I found one that worked. I have found Endos to be the worst.

With that said I urge you to be proactive with finding out what is triggering your hypothyroid. The three main causes is nutrient deficiency, allergies (including food allergies) and leaky gut.

The next thing to consider is that all your hormones work together. If one hormone is off the other hormones will be effected. There are other things that include symptoms similarly to hypothyroidism. The most common is adrenal fatigue. I recommend that you have a saliva test done so you see where you are as a whole. The big three in our endocrine system is Insulin, Cortisol and Thyroid. If these are not functioning optimally you will have the most symptoms. If either is under treated for long you can die, have a host of other autoimmune diseases, collapse, and basically be unfunctional.

Lastly educate yourself on Hashimoto’s. I love the thyroid pharmacist https://thyroidpharmacist.com

And her book Hashimoto’s Protocol Hashimoto's Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back https://www.amazon.com/dp/006257129X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_DwHXCbVKP6HN0

Best of luck!

I'm reading this book at the moment, and she reversed her thyroid disease, as have many people who did her protocol apparently.

https://www.amazon.com/Hashimotos-Protocol-Reversing-Thyroid-Symptoms/dp/006257129X

I read a review a few days ago from a woman whose thyroid grew back by 30% after about a year of living by this book and she was able to get off hormones.

Hi, I've been kinda busy but I keep meaning to reply to this.

TSH of 2,39 is not great - 95% of healthy people have a TSH below 2,5. The ranges are being constantly updated - just 5 years ago the upper limit was 5, these days it's 4,2, some organizations in the US consider anything over 3 a sign of being hypo according to a book I'm currently reading.

Regarding the up and down pattern of your TSH levels - Our thyroid contains hormones. When our immune system is destroying the gland, it will sometimes release a lot of hormone at once into the bloodstream which will then cause a period of hyperthyroidism, then you go hypo again. Occasional periods of hyperthyroidism between being hypo and "normal" (on paper anyway) are very typical of in the early stages of Hashimoto's.

Having a low appetite was one of my main symptoms before being diagnosed, alongside depression, extreme fatigue and insomnia. I was absolutely disgusted with food. I was not fat though, actually on the lower end of normal for years while having major hypo symptoms, it was only in the last months at the very end that I gained some weight. I think me being skinny was one of the reasons no one suspected I might have hashi.

All in all, the information you gave in this comment makes me think it's quite likely you have underactive thyroid. I think your best bet right now would be to test your anti-thyroid antibodies (aTPO) and, if you can, also aTG (these are present in Graves which causes hyperthyroidism), repeat the full thyroid panel (TSH, FT3, FT4) and get a thyroid ultrasound, making sure they measure it and give you its measurements that you can then use to calculate its volume

>Longitudinal and transverse scans are performed allowing the measurements of the depth (d), the width (w) and the length (l) of each lobe. The volume of the lobe is calculated by the formula : V (ml) = 0.479 x d x w x 1 (cm). The thyroid volume is the sum of the volumes of both lobes.

Then of course I'd advise you to go to a good endocrynologist - one that treats symptoms, not test results. There are a lot of doctors who will dismiss you as long as your TSH is not over the 4,2 or whatever the lab ranges are where you live, and then there are proper endos who know that your hormones can be within range but still too low, and that many people have symptoms way before things get bad enough for the TSH to go over 4,2. My doc keeps me at a TSH around 1, preferably below, somewhere around 0,8 (as long as FT3 and 4 are not showing I'm hyper) because that's where some people feel best, me included. I'm absolutely miserable when my TSH is at 2,3.

I think I saw something in German in your most recent posts, this book has pretty useful information on hashimoto and has a table showing healthy thyroid volume depending on sex/age, though of course you can find it online too (mine is half the size it should be)

https://www.amazon.de/Leben-mit-Hashimoto-Thyreoiditis-Ein-Ratgeber/dp/3863711963


At the moment I'm reading this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Hashimotos-Protocol-Reversing-Thyroid-Symptoms/dp/006257129X

I can't say if the method works yet as I just started reading but if you do have hashi, it might be useful to you as it addresses the cause for autoimmune issues, instead of just its symptoms, and apparently can help reverse thyroid damage and even help people get off meds or seriously lower the dose of hormones. Autoimmune diseases like to travel together so it's important to get to the core of the problem. The author was undiagnosed for years herself and describes the symtoms in the book (for her, it was mostly cognitive and mental health issues, depression, very low energy and feeling cold all the time, which is very common).

All in all, virtually every system can be affected as every organ in our body contains thyroid hormone receptors. And just because you don't have ceratin symptoms doesn't mean it's not hashi - it doesn't look the same for everyone, for example I don't sleep when hypo and am very sleepy when hyper, which is the opposite of what most people expercience.

You can also check this site https://stopthethyroidmadness.com/symptoms/