Thanks for all the sympathy, ladies. I actually don't feel bad right now; I just think I might feel better and that it might be worth playing with my meds a bit more. My doctor just signed off on just that. I'm going to take my current dose every other day instead of every day for the next six weeks. Then I'll get some more labs and see where we are. If I start to feel like I'm undersuppressing in the meantime, we'll reevaluate.

At this new dose, I'll keep an eye on my heart rate, as well as whether I'm sleeping okay. I'm a light sleeper anyway, but when my thyroid was hyperactive, I was waking up feeling really anxious, with what felt like (and likely was) a racing heart. If, on the flip side, my TSH doesn't budge much with this new decrease in meds, then I will consider getting a second opinion.

I just want to see what I it feels like to have a thyroid that is more squarely in the range of normal. Of the various TSH tests I've had over the years, the one that might be a good place to aim for was in 2007 when it was in the mid 2s. I rode 5k miles that year (my first full year of riding), so I must have had a decent energy level! I want that person back.

I think what's most frustrating is just how hard it is to understand the numbers. My doc has explained some of it, but the Internet has been both a blessing and a curse. It helped me appreciate that my GP's original take on my various tests was incorrect (which is why I saw an endo in the first place), but it also makes me second guess not only the tests that my endo is running, but her evalulation of those results. I do think you need to be your own strongest advocate, but it's hard to suppress the urge to out doctor your doctor.

So, we'lll see. Thanks again. I do take a lot of comfort that it appears my case is mild. My sister wasn't so lucky. It didn't help that her GP at the time assumed (based on her bevy of emotional problems) that she was suffering from anxiety. He treated her with drugs that masked some of her thyroid symptoms. It wasn't until she tried to go off of those drugs several years later that they realized his mistake. By then, she'd sort of gone off the deep end in a lot of ways.