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So, here goes - After fluctuating back and forth for several months, my thyroid has stabilized and I've been taken off medication. Two weeks ago, my TSH levels showed a drop from 5. something to 2.43. I felt great a short while and then came down with a very nasty infection/virus. The doctor believed it to be strep throat (although I was given no official culture). I've struggled with anxiety my entire life, and this diagnosis, of course, sent me into worrying constantly that the illness would affect my TSH levels and I would start feeling spacey and fatigued again. Well, perhaps it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, because starting on Friday evening, I've felt out-of-it and exhausted. I spoke with my therapist and she believes the culprit is anxiety, not my thyroid since my symptoms returned so abrubtly. I've also spoken with my dad, a doctor, who said, though lovingly, "You're a hypochondriac and a nervous wreck right now! Have been for months! It's not your thyroid - it's your anxiety and you're allowing it to consume your life!" I'm not sure he isn't right...things changed so quickly, quicker than I believe a TSH level can change. I'm just so tired, spacey - I think about this crap all the time, I obsess over it. So, WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK? BRUTAL HONESTY - DO YOU THINK THIS IS THYROID OR ANXIETY?View Thread



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