Frens, I’m basically at my breaking point.
I am in my late 20s. I have been struggling with almost undetectable levels of multiple hormones since 2014. I am worried about my fertility. My body continues to deteriorate and doctors just want to shove the birth control pill at me and send me on my way.
Does anyone know of any doctors that might be able to help? Or have performed miracles in the past? I have prayed and prayed and prayed and things simply continue to get worse. My family refuses to help me find assistance even though I’m a dependent on their insurance. I can’t continue on like this for much longer.
Thanks for any leads you can provide.
A lot of good advice on here. for myself i have a very low functioning thyroid & hashimotos. hormone replacement with pills never worked so I just dealt with it for over a decade. My test was also very low recently and they wanted me on replacements... anyways talked to an endocrinolgist, and really went over it with her and requested that we focused on thyroid first as i reminded her that test is effected by thyroid. Well now theres a new formulation - tirosint. It actually works, I just couldnt properly extract the thyroid from the pill form. Figure out as much as you can and help the doctor yo have available, be the doctor you need. I tried looking all over for the specialists / book writers etc, and wasn't practically possible, so i read and learned as much as i could and i talk to doctors like im the manager and theyre the specialist giving me info.
Thanks for sharing. Glad you’re finally seeing some improvement.
Got some relief from tirosint when I was on it. Hoping for compounded soon since insurance won’t cover either. Side note: Pfizer bought out Armour and didn’t really announce it; Tirosint is kind of the only synthetic out there that isn’t packed with all of the gunk in the others, and the only alternative to Armour I’ve found can raise my levels.
Since you mentioned you have Hashi’s—you may want to try going gluten free. I got rid of all my antibodies by doing so after doing some research. My originally endo was skeptical it would work, but it did. Now I’m just trying to find help for an underactive pituitary lol.
youre right on gluten free, I did that for awhile and my antibodies went lower but they were always still very high. I really do need to do it again.
Good luck and I can certainly relate to how debilitating it can be when your hormones arent correct.