Try herbal supplements before going with pharmicuticals...one in my mind is saw palmetto...there are two more ....... idk much if the urolift is permanent but know a lot about pae surgery from past people I spoke too.. but go herbal our body is built on gene therapy and when we try something herbal it retriggers our body chemistry in our dna make it go back to normal...
Sorry i was on the prostate forum....lol... try to find the cause of hypothyroidism Wether if it primary or secondary...taking med or herbal is like putting a bandaid.... hypothyroidism can either be issues with thyriod it's self or pituitary hypothamalus get ruled what they underlayING issue blood work only goes so far....
Tina, you owe it to yourself to at least Try thyroid supplement. It is simply not true that it always causes problems. I took itfor thirty years and was happy, healthy and full of energy. You have been misled I think.
When one's thyroid isn't working properly one doesn't absorb vitamins and minerals from food properly so it's worth testing for other deficiencies. Namely Ferritin, vitamin B12, vitamin D,, magnesium, potassium, selenium, calcium. Any of these can make you really fatigued. Also try and get tested for T3 levels at same time as TSH and T4. It is possible you're not converting T4 to T3 properly. In the meantime avoid grains, milk and soya as they impair the body's ability to process thyroxine. If you have been prescribed thyroid medication you need to take it - though you do have a choice about which one.
Tina, there is no "natural" effective treatment for hypothyroidism. I sincerely feel your pain but you need to deal with reality, not the totally misguided and frankly, crackpot idea that you'll be cured with a bunch of stuff that we here in North Americacall 'snake oil'. If you won't at leasttry thyroid supplement then I would conclude that clinging to your irrattional beliefs is more important to you than getting better. That would be a sad outcome. People here are trying to offer the help you need. Listen to us.
Dave, No problem, I understand your skepticism. I can speak from personal experience. I started taking an NDT on 23 June 2015 (after I became intolerant to maize starch - there are no synthetic thyroid meds without maize starch). For the first time in 20 years i feel well and my blood tests are all in range. Previously, to not be like a frozen zombie, I had to be given enough thyroxine that my TSH was permanently suppressed i.e. unmeasureable. As I have increased my NDT dose this has been reflected in the blood tests. As I've decreased NDT dose, my blood test results also decrease. As you can see it's early days and I'm still tweaking the dose. An added complication is that my body isn't converting T4 to T3 properly. Which is why just giving me thyroxine (aka T4) wasn't working and I still felt rubbish.
Dave, Barbara is right on. Get on NDT as soon as you can, it will give you the T3 which you are probably missing (as well as T1 and T2). I found that synthetic T4 gave me more symptoms than when I had cancer! Before I was just sleepy, after I had bone pain, muscle pain, swishing sound in my head, head ache and so on and so on. I do not know the results of the clinical trials but it sure worked in me. You can Google those results. Just a note. Big Pharma doesn't want NDT to flourish and succeed because they cant' get thier hands on it and patent it because it is a natural phenomena, i.e. they can't make a lot of money out of it, so they try to put companies who make it, out of business.
Tina, it would help if you would post some blood test results (becauae one's options change depending on how badly one's thyroid is affected and whether other processes are involved). For example when I was diagnosed with thyroid disease in 1991 my TSH=170 (normal range is 0.4-4.9). I had no option but to go on thyroxine else I would have died.
I notice you haven't answered the question about insulin. There are some diseases where the choice is what type of medication, not whether to go on it or not. Thyroid disease is one of these, unless you are borderline, which the extent of your symptoms suggests you're not.
When you say 'I have tried two different natural thyroid supplements' I am interested in what you tried and for how long. Re 'what' you've tried, some of the thyroid supplements are not actual medication in the true sense of the word, for example iodine supplements can help if you live in a part of the world where the soil is deficient in iodine AND this is the reason your thyroid isn't working well AND it has been caught at an early stage. In the majority of cases of thyroid disease, it is one's own immune system that has destroyed the thyroid so that it no longer produces thyroxine - in these cases there is no option but to take medication (however much one dislikes doing so). In these cases one is replacing a crucial hormone that is absent). Also, it takes a long time to get thyroid dosage right (sometimes a year or more). How long did you try them for?
You make no mention of any doctors supporting you. Thyroid disease is complicated, though after 2 years of research I'm sure you have realised. One needs another person to offer informed, objective advice, specific to one's own situation.
You also haven't responded to my comment about your levels of other vitamins snd minerals, these all have to be ok for one's thyroid to be able to work and in some cases (e.g. mine) it still doesn't.
The bottom line is that you are having severe symptoms and need to find the cause and fix it; taking thyroid medication if appropriate.