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Help! Wonky cycles, PCOS, hypothyroidism
Hi. I don't think I've posted before. I'm new to tracking my cycle and am still getting the hang of it. I have PCOS and am hypothyroid. I was taking Metformin for my PCOS, but have quit due to side effects, but have been taking 1000 mg(or mcg? whatever the dosage is 'supposed' to be) daily for the last few weeks. I'm also on Atkins. Since starting
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I'm wondering if I might have hypothyroidism too (and maybe PCOS, but probably not), but I can't really ask a doctor about it now, so I'm doing my own research.
I started temping vaginally because I breathe through my mouth, and that's made my charts make a little bit more sense, but they're still confusing. My cycle, since I quit the pill over a year ago, has been between 24 and 44 days long, but my temps don't ever look like I ovulate for sure. They'll go up one day (that's usually around 12-14 days before my period starts) and back down the next day. I have EW CM almost every day, because of the IUD, so the CM isn't really going to help me figure this one out right now. My temps are always very low. When I was charting orally, they'd be between about 96.4 and 97.3 in a cycle. I started charting vaginally and now they range from about 97.3 to 98.6 and my charts are starting to make more sense (I breathe through my mouth sometimes in my sleep). I know that's a lot about me, but I put it here in case any of the same thing happened to you.
Questions: 1.)How did you discover that you had hypothyroidism? What did you/your doctor notice? 2.)What is the treatment like? What medicine are you on, and has how does it make you feel?
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1. I got really sick at the beginning of the year and went to the ER. They told me it looked as if I had hypothyroidism because my TSH was elevated a little. They told me to see a endocrinologist. I did. He told me I have borderline hypothyroidism, and now I'm on medicine for it. Sadly, that wasn't what was causing my illness, but that's an entirely different story.
2. Basically you're put on thyroid hormone. There's a few different types. There's either fake thyroid hormone which is Synthroid a few other names... or there's Armour which is made from desicrated pig thyroid, so it's real. With some people this really helps (some people don't feel that Synthroid helps them enough). But there are a lot of doctors who are against Armour. The one endocrinologist that I went to told me "I wouldn't give Armour to my worst enemy".
I'm on Synthroid. It has helped me, my TSH and T3 and T4 are in range now. I can't really make out how I feel since I have another illness where it kind of overlaps symptoms of hypothyroidism, that and there are so many.
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I remember reading accounts here about people sleeping with their mouths open and their temps being fine. It made me think that maybe if you always sleep with your mouth open it might be fine, just lower (because the air you're breathing is cooler than your body temp) uniformly. Some days I do and some days I don't sleep with my mouth open. I did keep track, and my temperature was always lower when I could tell when I woke up that my mouth was open, and the vaginal temping is making a little more sense.
Thanks a lot for the thyroid info. I need to keep looking to find more specifics, and if anyone reading this wants to share, please do!
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