Help! Wonky cycles, PCOS, hypothyroidism

[fleckerbug]

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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[disturbedme]

I sleep with my mouth open as well, but I don't think that will make your temps wonky (because my cycles look fine, all except for the few anovulatory cycles I have had). I have no idea if that would make temps lower than average either, but it would make some sense -- my temps are still quite low even though I'm on Synthroid.

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.

[recuntulous]

thanks for writing back!

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!

[disturbedme]

If you think you have hypothyroidism, just have a routine blood test for it. But ask the doctor to include TSH as well as T3 and T4. Then you'll know if you have it or not...