Just a brief progress report before I'm off to the shower post Curves!!
I talked to the doc on Thursday which marked 2 weeks on Armour Thyroid and 1 week on the progesterone and estrogen compounds. Based on my feedback she adjusted the Armour up from .5 grain to .75 grain per day (I expected that - it's adviseable to titrate up slow on that). She also kept me on the same total dose of progesterone, but shifted so the evening dose is bigger and the morning dose smaller. And she upped the estrogen both times - still equal doses morning and evening.
WOW!! Now I think I'm beginning to understand what women talk about when they describe the change in energy level when the hormones start coming into balance. I'm sure we still have more balancing to do - that would be quite normal from everything I understand. But holy moly!! I still woke up several times last night, but fell back to sleep right away, and feel very well rested and Disgustingly Perky this morning. And we'll see if my metabolism is correcting itself - need more than 1.5 days to get a good feel there, however something that weighs over 2 pounds fell off of me in 2 days.
(and I'll gladly take that!!)
So...I have no doubt that this path will be longer before we have the perfect combination of hormones in hand. But things are moving in the right direction - at least that's how it feels.
For whatever that's worth...
DG