Hello
I am also hypothyroid and on evorel patches, Utrogestan and Androfemme, the testosterone cream. I take NDT for my thyroid. Our thyroid hormones are definitely impacted by our sex hormones quite a bit so they are impacted when we add in HRT. I found that because progesterone increases our free T4, that during the Utrogestan phase I was feeling more anxiety, night time panics, that kind of thing. I lowered my estrogen and my thyroid medication, I first did a full thyroid panel and that also indicated my Free T4 was way too high. My thyroid meds have had to be decreased by 20%. The NHS only typically test TSH, which is actually not an active thyroid hormone, it’s simply a messenger, notifying the thyroid of how much hormones to make and send out into every cell. When we take medication, we are overriding that message as we are adding in the hormones instead, and the TSH responds by lowering. So it isn’t a good way to monitor the hypothyroid condition. We should be measuring the amount of active hormones in circulation, the Free T3, and free T4. They then need to be in the optimal part of the range, noted in brackets with your result. I have to go private for this type of care, and I use medichecks to do that using their full thyroid panel home kit. Feel free to ask and other questions, there are a few very knowledgeable women here with the same condition that have helped me too.
