Well, it's all about remembering why it *could be worse.* Thus the exercise in sharing the story about the poor, befuddled spitter on the bus. At least I'm *not* actually crazy and I *am* suffering these symptoms for a reason.
You are essentially correct in your thinking, only you have some of the symptomology backwards. There are two conditions: hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. One is where you don't have enough (hypo) thyroid hormone, and the other is where you have too much (hyper). So when they give you hormones to replace ones that you are not producing (Treatment for hypothyroidism involves giving you any hormones that your thyroid is failing to produce, since they don't seem to have any way of getting the thyroid gland to produce more...) they can actually give you too much and cause the opposite condition. The key is to watch the symptoms you have and know which ones mean *too much* and which ones mean *not enough*.
The whole thing is made somewhat trickier because there is more than one hormone involved (Mostly T3 and T4) and there needs to be a BALANCE of hormones before you will feel quite right... Despite the amount of reading I've done on the subject over the weekend, I'm still a bit confused by all of it, but I imagine that's why Endocrinologists make far more money than I ever will...
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You are essentially correct in your thinking, only you have some of the symptomology backwards. There are two conditions: hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. One is where you don't have enough (hypo) thyroid hormone, and the other is where you have too much (hyper). So when they give you hormones to replace ones that you are not producing (Treatment for hypothyroidism involves giving you any hormones that your thyroid is failing to produce, since they don't seem to have any way of getting the thyroid gland to produce more...) they can actually give you too much and cause the opposite condition. The key is to watch the symptoms you have and know which ones mean *too much* and which ones mean *not enough*.
The whole thing is made somewhat trickier because there is more than one hormone involved (Mostly T3 and T4) and there needs to be a BALANCE of hormones before you will feel quite right... Despite the amount of reading I've done on the subject over the weekend, I'm still a bit confused by all of it, but I imagine that's why Endocrinologists make far more money than I ever will...