I don’t have a thyroid at all and I’m on 100mg…I just can’t function on a higher dose, but I (used to) get hauled in after every blood test with them being concerned that my readings are far too low, and I must raise my dosage. Like has been mentioned, not everyone is the same…and while I’m not knocking their knowledge, I know my body better than they do…
Normally you will find that if you are Diabetic then your Cholesterol is normally high, but my Cholesterol has always been low without taking any tablets for it, at the moment my Cholesterol is 4.1.
I am what they now term as pre diabetic with persistent insulin resistance and my last fractional bloods returned cholesterol of 3.2 with the high/low lipids ratio spot on according to the BHF charts. I also have a tendency towards anaemia, so perhaps that’s an influencing factor? 
I take Thyroxin because I had an over active thyroid, then had the radiation treatment which put me under active. It took my surgery nearly 18 months to sort me out. The specialist at the hospital was mortified when he realised he’d given me too much of the over active treatment, he was sure it had been right. I have been taking Levithyroxin for a long time now.
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How are you feeling now, with it, Tiffany? The radioactive treatment is quite brutal isn’t it? I was kept in isolation for 9 days and everything I had brought into hospital was burned 
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Were you over active before then Pixie?
I am fine, Have been for several years now. Worst for me was being under active. Once the GP got my dose right & it worked I felt well again.
I had to keep myself away from people for nearly 2 weeks as well, after the radiation treatment, couldn’t sleep with OH either. Luckily we had a sofa bed in the back bedroom & I slept on that, note he didn’t offer to use the sofa bed himself. 
But he was working then so better I had it. I went into hospital as a day patient & went home after. Don’t think they took anything away I had with me to destroy it.
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It was cancer with me, Tiff…the whole lot came out over two ops. The first op was ok, the second one was complicated. Radioactive after that, and kept in a room by myself with a lead screen. Mr P came to visit me one night, and I had him sit by the bed for a bit. The nurse immediately came bustling in wagging her finger, asking if I was trying to finish him off! 
I had to avoid everyone (including the dog ) for a further week or two. Its been 8 years now 
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So good to read you are well again, Pixie.
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Thanks Tiff…and likewise too! 
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Pixie, same for me. My thyroid and 2 parathyroids were cancerous, which was found after their removal - although there was a big question mark after those horrid needle investigations and scans. (shudders)
I didn’t need any radioactive treatment…
Glad you’re ok!
Did they leave your parathyroids?
I suffered with hypocalcaemia and tetany, (which was the pits), so had to be readmitted a day after discharge and put on slow intravenous calcium drips. It has to be slow or you risk a heart attack. After the 3rd day, I took my own discharge and legged it.
But all that was 11 yrs ago and so far things are ok.
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Prescribed:
Thyroxin x 1 after thyroid removal.
Calcichew D3 Forte x 4 daily. Double the usual dosage because of low calcium / Vit D levels
Also prescribed heart and osteoporosis medications a few years ago, which I refused to take. (Don’t start).
Vitamins/Supplements:
Fish oil x 2
Zinc/Magnesium x 1
Gluco x 1
Biotic Balance x 1
EPO x 1
Q10 x 1
…
Wow Pesta, that’s some ordeal 
My Parathyroids were ok thankfully, and they left them alone. The Fine Needle Aspiration was a nightmare though…I thought he was going to pierce through the other side! The weird thing with that was, that he was working with someone who was seconded to that department, and together they looked at the scans and chatted about the cancer they saw there. I think they forgot the patient was still lying in the room! if I could have said something I would have, but I was in shock. 
I can’t believe you discharged yourself! That’s a bit wild Glad everything is ok with you!
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I don’t take any, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I shouldn’t. I’m not a great one for doctors, so I haven’t been thoroughly investigated. 
Pixie, that’s awful. I swear sometimes they forget that they are actually dealing with people, and not slabs of meat. You poor bugga 
Yes I was waiting for those needle things to go through the back of my neck. The sweat used to pour off me with nerves too. Can’t recall how many times I had to have the damn things, but I’m sweating typing about it.
Did you have that HUGE square scanner that was about half a millimetre from your nose, and you had to lie perfectly still for 20mins under it? That was SO claustrophobic.
(shudders).
The funniest thing I remember when I was readmitted with the tetany was being one of those ‘specimens’ ( ) for another consultant and his students,
He went through my symptoms with them, they asked me questions and discussed stuff between themselves. Then he asked them for their ‘diagnosis’.
I think there were 6 students in all, but I remember only one got it right. He even got (much to the surprise of the consultant) the alternative way of diagnosing tetany, which is tapping the cheek, in front of the ear.
While they were all yacking on I was mentally imagining the Carry on Films and ‘Big Boss’ man was James Robertson Justice being oh so very officious to the dithering students (he wasn’t and they weren’t) 
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Biggest hug PixieK
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None.
No I didn’t get that?
This made me laugh!
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You were lucky! 
I went to the Dr’s the other day and the receptionist asked what was the problem. I said it is very personal and I only want to discuss it with the DR. So the Dr asked what was the matter? making sure no one else was within earshot I told him quietly I was constipated . He asked how long since and I said nearly two weeks.
OOH he said you better have these large tablets 3 times a day for a couple of weeks, one in the morning- one mid day -and one in the evening and put them up your back passage.
Well I did this and after two weeks went back and the DR asked if the tablets worked? No I said and now I can’t open my back gate.
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