Catecholamine
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Hi, I've been lurking for a while, and implementing some Peaty diet modifications (i.e. drinking orange juice, putting gelatin on meat, eating more coconut oil and less PUFA, and putting salt/sugar/coconut oil into my coffee). I'm male, 25 (almost 26), 5'9.5" and currently 217lb. Let's start with a little backstory.
I have a few medical conditions, namely ADHD (been diagnosed since 9). Ever since I was 16, I've had a mysterious, constant headache. It never completely stops, and very few medications can do anything about it. Doctors have basically given up on it, giving it the diagnosis NDPH, or New Daily Persistent Headache, which means they don't know what to do about it. The only thing that did work was Adderall, which I was prescribed at age 20 (actually for ADHD, but it worked for the headache too). I was about 210lb at the time of getting prescribed, and in a couple years with lifting and a conventional paleo/IF diet, I went down to 150. I slowly gained the weight back over the years, steadily fluctuating around 195 until now, when it's gone up due to my Peaty diet modifications. Also, the Adderall doesn't really work anymore for me, for neither the headache nor the ADHD. More recently, I tried taking high-dose aspirin (1-2g/day), which felt great for a couple weeks, but I think I gained a tolerance.
I realized that I've had hypothyroid symptoms all along, namely an inability to lose a significant amount of fat, dark circles under my eyes no matter how much I sleep, lethargy/brain fog/inability to concentrate, dysthymia/anhedonia, ruminative insecurity, and my exercise recovery capacity is pathetic. A few months ago, I got a "full thyroid panel" from an endocrinologist, and these were my results:
THYROXINE (T4) 6.8 ug/dL (4.5 - 12.8 ug/dL)
T3 UPTAKE 44 % (32 - 48 %)
TSH 2.40 mIU/L (0.28 - 4.10 mIU/L)
FREE THYROXINE INDEX (FTI) 7.48 ug/dL (4.50 - 13.13 ug/dL)
T3 TOTAL 115 ng/dL (87 - 178 ng/dL)
THYROID PEROXIDASE AB 40 IU/mL (0 - 35 IU/mL) [HIGH]
The endocrinologist told me that all my levels were normal and that "no treatment is necessary," which I'm pretty sure was utter bull****, given that, 1. I feel horrible in a hypothyroid way, 2. aspirin (which has a reputation on these forums as an ersatz for T3) made me feel almost normal, and 3. hypothyroidism is the ONLY thing that this headache has ever been linked to in the scientific literature.
So I decided to take matters into my own hands.
For the past 2 weeks I tried taking Thiroyd from Pimpom Products. I started at 1 grain, and raised my dose over the past 2 weeks in 0.25 grain increments to 2 grains starting today. For a little bit, I started to feel a little warmer and less ruminative, and was able to do some workouts that weren't pathetically abridged. However, in the past 3 days, I've been feeling a weird tenderness (and possibly swelling) at the base of the front of my neck, and I gained a few pounds since last week (I was about 212, now I'm 217).
My questions are:
1. What's this tenderness at the base of my neck? Does this normally happen when you start to take NDT?
2. Should I continue with Thiroyd or try something else?
I have a few medical conditions, namely ADHD (been diagnosed since 9). Ever since I was 16, I've had a mysterious, constant headache. It never completely stops, and very few medications can do anything about it. Doctors have basically given up on it, giving it the diagnosis NDPH, or New Daily Persistent Headache, which means they don't know what to do about it. The only thing that did work was Adderall, which I was prescribed at age 20 (actually for ADHD, but it worked for the headache too). I was about 210lb at the time of getting prescribed, and in a couple years with lifting and a conventional paleo/IF diet, I went down to 150. I slowly gained the weight back over the years, steadily fluctuating around 195 until now, when it's gone up due to my Peaty diet modifications. Also, the Adderall doesn't really work anymore for me, for neither the headache nor the ADHD. More recently, I tried taking high-dose aspirin (1-2g/day), which felt great for a couple weeks, but I think I gained a tolerance.
I realized that I've had hypothyroid symptoms all along, namely an inability to lose a significant amount of fat, dark circles under my eyes no matter how much I sleep, lethargy/brain fog/inability to concentrate, dysthymia/anhedonia, ruminative insecurity, and my exercise recovery capacity is pathetic. A few months ago, I got a "full thyroid panel" from an endocrinologist, and these were my results:
THYROXINE (T4) 6.8 ug/dL (4.5 - 12.8 ug/dL)
T3 UPTAKE 44 % (32 - 48 %)
TSH 2.40 mIU/L (0.28 - 4.10 mIU/L)
FREE THYROXINE INDEX (FTI) 7.48 ug/dL (4.50 - 13.13 ug/dL)
T3 TOTAL 115 ng/dL (87 - 178 ng/dL)
THYROID PEROXIDASE AB 40 IU/mL (0 - 35 IU/mL) [HIGH]
The endocrinologist told me that all my levels were normal and that "no treatment is necessary," which I'm pretty sure was utter bull****, given that, 1. I feel horrible in a hypothyroid way, 2. aspirin (which has a reputation on these forums as an ersatz for T3) made me feel almost normal, and 3. hypothyroidism is the ONLY thing that this headache has ever been linked to in the scientific literature.
So I decided to take matters into my own hands.
For the past 2 weeks I tried taking Thiroyd from Pimpom Products. I started at 1 grain, and raised my dose over the past 2 weeks in 0.25 grain increments to 2 grains starting today. For a little bit, I started to feel a little warmer and less ruminative, and was able to do some workouts that weren't pathetically abridged. However, in the past 3 days, I've been feeling a weird tenderness (and possibly swelling) at the base of the front of my neck, and I gained a few pounds since last week (I was about 212, now I'm 217).
My questions are:
1. What's this tenderness at the base of my neck? Does this normally happen when you start to take NDT?
2. Should I continue with Thiroyd or try something else?
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