If carbamezepine can cause falsely high TSH readings, it might be worthwhile looking into whether it can also affect the rest of the thyroid panel (T3, T4, etc.) and if not, discussing with your doctor whether it makes sense to look at those numbers instead of the TSH.
And AFAIK, 3.81 is still in a range where treatment might be good if you're symptomatic.
iirc being hypothyroid can make your skin flaky and cause itching from that. After my mum got her diagnosis she realised the itchy skin on her arms was that.
Sounds like it might be worth testing the other thyroid panel stuff and asking whether the carbamazepine is causing thyroid issues as well as fucking up the results.
A good point-one of the signs that my thyroid medication needs to be adjusted upwards is dry, itchy patches on my upper arms. I know someone else who has that happen on her nose.
Not a silly question at all, it's along the lines of my current thinking. The medical term for itching is pruritus, which took three attempts at spelling to get right - hooray for typing things into Google and it saying "do you mean...?" and repeating until I get recognisable websites like Medscape and the Merck Manual :) Don't ask me to pronounce it, it'll be another of those words like brewery that I can't say without severe embarrassment. Urticaria is specifically itchy/allergic rash/hives.
My current and subject-to-change thoughts on the matter are that the rashes where skin-meets-skin are almost certainly intertrigo because a) they are in the right places for this to be the cause, b) they look like the pictures of intertrigo on the internet, and c) they have responded very well and quickly to the antifungal medicine. I'm not quite sure about the ?ezcema on the inside of my elbow because it was in the exact same shape as the plaster that I'd had over where my blood test was done - I think it's more likely to have been an allergy
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Heh - I certainly empathise with "seeing my partners tucking into things I would have loved and enjoyed last year but which I now daren't eat". I've been dairy-free for, what, 4 years now? It was awful at the beginning, but believe me, the urge does go away eventually. I occasionally feel really frustrated, if I'm hungry and wandering round an unfamiliar shop trying to find *something* that I can eat, or in the summer when there are ice cream adverts everywhere, but most of the time it doesn't bother me
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And AFAIK, 3.81 is still in a range where treatment might be good if you're symptomatic.
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