Hi guys! After a nearly year-long process of being turned away by doctors who dismissed my symptoms as just stress or hormones, I finally got a diagnosis last week of Lyme disease and have been on doxycycline the past 6 days. However, both my primary care doctor and my endocrinologist don't believe all my symptoms are related to Lyme.
While I was trying to get a diagnosis, I got my thyroid tested multiple times. Hypothyroidism runs in my family, and I was/still am experiencing many of the symptoms. My free T4 and T3 levels are in the normal range (though the free T4 is on the low side of normal), but my TSH increased from 3.5 to 4.6 in a period of 4 weeks. These numbers were below the reference ranges my PCP uses (max 4.68), and my endocrinologist won't even tell me what reference ranges he uses. He barely glanced at the numbers and said that was fine, but it doesn't feel fine to me, and I know Lyme can affect the thyroid. But with no doctors prescribing anything for me, I'm not sure where to turn.
In a week, I move across the country after graduating from college, but I will probably have to wait two to three months before getting a new doctor while I wait for my new insurance to start. I will have them recheck my thyroid and check to make sure the Lyme was eradicated, but in the meantime, what should I do? I've gained a ton of weight, lost all muscle mass, my face/feet are swollen, and I'm fatigued beyond belief. Are there any thyroid supplements you would recommend that don't require a prescription? Am I obsessing over this too much? Getting the Lyme diagnosis was a relief, but I still feel like something is wrong, and I feel essentially abandoned by all my doctors here who keep taking a "wait and see" approach and telling me to just recheck the numbers in a couple months. With how I'm feeling, I don't see how I can wait that long, so any advice/recommendations are very much appreciated!