Quote Originally Posted by Triskeliongirl View Post
Are you suggesting that is harder to maintain your weight on medication? Its harder to maintain your weight when your TSH is high! As long as you are being appropriately treated (depending the person, its the right does of synthroid, synthroid/cytomel, or armour) it should get easier, not harder, to lose or maintain weight, i.e. think of thyroid hormone as being important for your metabolism, if it is down, your metabolism is slow, so it will be harder to lose weight.

Even if you TSH is normal, if you still feel sluggish and/or your free T3 is low you may need some form of T4/T3 combo therapy. I would explore this before taking an apetite suppresant. Or, see if there isn't something else going on that interferes with weight loss. In my case it wasn't until I got on T4/T3 combo therapy AND found out I had impaired glucose tolerance so went on a low carb diet that I could lose weight.
Sorry but in my case, i totally disagree with you. My TSH is 1.05 right now and I have worked my *** off to lose 9 pounds since February. I work out sometimes 3 hours per day and my TSH has not been this low EVER. My endo tested me for anything and everything with regard to my metabolism and everything was within the normal range if not low end of normal. The appetite suppressant was to jump start the weight loss because I had been gaining not losing despite the work outs.

I believe there is a fine line when playing around with your TSH and your metabolism. If you over medicate that poses other health issues and if you under medicate that causes a different set of concerns. This is just my personal experience, for what it is worth.