Around January time I took a blood test, it came back showing that I had an underactive thyroid, I was just so happy because for about a year I have not been feeling myself, I’ve always been a strong person but I became week, my hair is always dead, I was gaining weight but I didn’t know why (gained over 15 pounds in a few months), I went on the internet and google under active thyroid symptoms and I had them all..

I was so excited I could be feeling back to my old self IF I was put on the pills for it, BUT my doctor said to me, i don’t want to start you on the pills because I want to be positive you have it, He send me for another blood test (around March it came back Negative!!!… I was not happy at all with that, and I did not start my pills.. a month later (in April) I requested another blood test, again, came back Negative……

I am just so sick of this, I KNOW I have an under active thyroid, I am not myself, I am so weak, and everything. I know for the past longer than a year I’ve been not myself, my life feels at stand still, believe it or not I’ve not been out the house for about a year from feeling so ill, everyday is a struggle, a thyroid can affect nearly everything in your body. I know once I go on the pills (If I do) I will feel sooooo much better, but he won’t start me because the last two tests came back negative, but one also came back positive and if I didn’t have it how did it show up.

What can I do to make him change his mind, any other tests I can take. What can I say to him to understand how I feel.

Thank you for anyone who answers, I really do appreciate it.

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I have every single symptom to an underactive thyroid, i was feeling terrible one day so i went for a blood test, it showed i had an underactive thyroid.. ok i thought that was good cause i found out the answers to my problems…

so before i could start pills for it the doctor wanted to be sure i had it and made me have another blood test, it came back as - negative -

a month later, i went for another blood test, and again, negative…….

i know i have this illness, it showed up once, its there..
i started a vitamin called kelp. would that help it? (about kelp - Kelp is a rich source of Iodine. Iodine is readily absorbed and transported via the bloodstream to the thyroid gland, where it is used by the body to make the hormone Thyroxine which is involved in the regulation of the metabolism)

thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!

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i had a blood test and the results came back as i had an underactive thyroid glands
the docotrs gave me some tablets but i never take them
i had enougher blood test six weeks after the first one
and the results came back that they was back to normal and my doctor said that i should still take my tablets
the thing is i never took the tablets.. so how have they gone back to normal
do u think my doctor misread the first blood test!!

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Can this just be stress - or thyroid problem maybe?
My thyroid blood test came out fine a few years ago but I didn’t trust they got to the bottom of it. I have other symptoms of underactive thyroid too.

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I’ve been to the doctor twice to have my thyroid checked by a blood test, but even though I have alot of the symptoms of a thyroid problem it has come back as within range, but only barely within.
The blood test they have done is called T.S.H. levels.

So my main question is this: Do the thyroid (TSH) levels go up and down?

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