How can I get more thyroid into my system? I am ...

Well, the Thyroid gland (located  in the sides of the neck) produce hormones. Those hormones are effecting methabolizm and blood supply, if you have hypothyroid, that means that your methabolism is slower and rate of growth is probably effected from it as well, which is effecting your life in a lot of ways - being more tired, gaining wights easy and having a hard time loosing it, being low on energy, being depressed or sad, being always cold, and having no appetite (you don't have ot have all ofthem, but you probably have some of them).

Hormones are not like vitamins, you can't change your diet or eat more fruit and then it fixes itself - if the Dr. said you need to take it in pills, then just take them.

They do have side effects at first. I had a friend who took them for a while, at first it seem like the problem was getting worst, after a couple of weeks, she totally went the other side and was hyper and lost a lot of weight all of a sudden. In a couple of months though she was feeling great, way better then she felt in year in fact - apprantly her defficiancy was getting worst and worst till it was discovered.

The sooner you treat it though, the better. I'm happy the Dr. found out about it in time.

Feel Good! 

I see that you posted this in January, so you may have been "cured" by now, but I'm leaving this anyway.  Like so many patients, you want an instant cure.  However, thyroid dysfunctions, like some other diseases, takes a long time to stabilize; you can't take pills a couple of days, then be cured.  You take several days to weeks to reach equilibrium.  You should follow your doctor's orders (assuming that you have a good doctor), and take your time with the medicine (Synthroid, or whatever he has you on.)  There are many, many strengths of thyroid, and types of thyroid, which must be gone through to reach the optimal dosage.  It's not unsual for it to take 6 months to a year to get there; don't get impatient.  The results are worth the experimentation.

--A word about alternative medicine.  There are many artifical alternative herbs and other "organic" substances which claim to treat thyroid disease.  Don't do it.  If you take them while you are trying to get stable with pharmaceticals, it'll screw everything up, confuse the doctor, and make everything harder for everyone.

But, since it's been since January, you may be cured by now.  I hope so.

Talk to another doctor

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I had the same problem when they had me on synthroid.  I went to a doctor on the armour thyroid list (which is real thyroid taken from an animal and not artifical thyroid cooked up in a lab).  That made all the difference in the way I felt but was still to low to take care of all my symptoms. 

 I found an old time doctor who was in his 80s who said before synthroid, they always used armor thyroid and they always treated the symptoms.  He said todays doctors look at one TSH number and try to use it to judge how much you need.  But that the TSH system could be and probably is out of wack and the symptoms would tell you every time when you got the doseage correct.

So since my doctor won't increase my dosage, I carefully under took my meds (not recommending anyone do this, I just know my body and did this for myself.  Don't need the burn from anyone who doesn't like this idea.)   When he ran my blood test, he doubled my dosage.

 I then  took the amount he had originally prescribed.  He ran the TSH again and the balance looked "in range and normal" to him.  I then started to slowly increase the amount of armor thyroid I was taking until my symptoms began to subside.  This increase in my dosage was done over a three month period.

 Today, I feel great.  I don't drag anymore.  My hair is back.  My mind is working like it use to.  In fact, in all ways I am doing fine, except for that pesky TSH number.

A note:  I am VERY, VERY careful to start to adjust my meds down about a month before my yearly TSH test is due.  They run the test and it shows TSH is in the recommended "range".  As soon as the test is run, I adjust them back up. 

 Good luck.  Thyroid problems are very hard to work with.

Note:  did you know you can paint a quarter size amount of iodine on your arm and your body will absorb the iodine which can help your thyroid.  Also, many test they run today inject iodine and are the cause of thyroid abnormalities in the first place.  Whatever you do, synthroid, iodine, armor thyroid, after test that use iodine, etc....drink tons of water as all that stuff gathers in the kidneys and can do MAJOR damage if you don't flush it out.