I am a forty-one year old female who was diagnosed with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis nine years ago. For eight of those nine years I had a pretty pathetic life.

I had a huge goitre, overwhelming fatigue, muscle pain and weakness, depression, brain fog, slurred speech, migraines, blurred vision, a puffy face and a puffy body. When I was feeling at my worst my pulse was 53 and my blood pressure was 87/47. There were days when I felt so weak and depressed that I contemplated suicide. I don't know how many times I would just burst into tears in front of my young child. Sounds bad!! IT WAS!!!!

At the time I was taking a big dose of 200µg of T₄. A lot considering I am a small person. My endocrinologist said that my T₄ levels were in the normal range. "It can't be your thyroid", she said, "I don't know what is wrong with you." I fired that doctor and set out to find what was wrong with me.

I searched the Internet, read books, talked to others with this disease. After months of studying the disease and the role of T₃ in your body I knew that without question I needed T₃. Loading my body with T₄ was no good to me if it was not being converted into T₃ or being utilised by the cells properly.

I convinced my doctor to let me try some T₃. My T₄ was cut back from 200µg to 150µg daily and in addition I took 12.5µg of T₃. Want to know how it changed my life? Let me tell you!

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Good luck to all those people who are still suffering. I hope you can live life again like I am.

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