Excellent news at the doctor this morning! My thyroid is running normally without the help of medication of any kind. Back in June I stopped taking my Synthroid all together, and after 5 months my thyroid is doing well, with my TSH at 1.8.
I have Hashimoto's Disease, an autoimmune disease that attacks your thyroid and makes it irregular but generally very slow. I was on Synthroid for many years, and Cytomel for a while, but I never felt any better. Even before my blood test this month I could tell that my thyroid was doing fine just by the way I feel. The chronic exhaustion is gone.
Before I started Empowerplus I was taking 0.125 mg of Synthroid daily. When I had the weird allergy attack/thyroid storm in December 2009, after 7 months on Empowerplus, I cut it back to 0.075 mg. In April 2010 my TSH was 1.9. 6 weeks later it seemed like I was still taking too much. I switched to half a pill, 0.0375 mg, and got another blood test. Before I could get those results I had another weird allergy attack/thyroid storm and ended up in the emergency room. There I learned that my latest test result was a TSH of 1.0, a dramatic drop despite reducing my Synthroid dose. That was when I decided to stop the Synthroid completely.
Now that decision has proven to be correct. Obviously the Empowerplus is supporting my thyroid so much on it's own that extra medication is not necessary. Considering that I feel so much better now than the Synthroid was ever able to achieve, I'm feeling pretty good about that!