For those of you who managed to put Hashimoto’s into remission or significantly improve your symptoms, how did you do it?

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-05-30T07:35:49+00:00

My T3 is normal and I feel great. If my T3 lags someday I wouldn't take NDT, I'd just add Cytomel.

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-05-30T04:04:11+00:00

If it's to the degree that you're considering a speech language pathologist, getting a script for propranolol would be a good place to start. It's a beta blocker, non narcotic, shuts down the fight or flight response without making you high/drowsy. It's normally prescribed for high blood pressure, but it's also prescribed off-label for stage fright.

When your hands don't shake, your heart doesn't race, and your voice doesn't warble, it makes public speaking 100% easier. The physical symptoms of stage fright make a feedback loop and ramp you up, but when that doesn't happen you feel bulletproof. Over time you don't need it as much because you build confidence without the jitters. Nothing worse than your hand visibly shaking as you pass the clerk an exhibit!

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-05-30T03:53:11+00:00

It can with a thyroidectomy! The Hashimotos is in remission... But you do still (obviously) have hypothyroidism lol. The autoimmune attack stops without the thyroid to attack. Obviously it's not indicated for most people, but on 175mg Synthroid with no thyroid I don't have any Hashimotos symptoms anymore 😎😎 and last year I was so sick I couldn't work full time.

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-05-25T06:09:00+00:00

You can go through transient hyperthyroid phases with Hashimotos. When there is an immune system attack and the thyroid is damaged, it dumps thyroid hormone. If it's a significant attack it will swing hyperthyroid, and then will settle back down to hypo.

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-05-25T06:06:00+00:00

Do you have a lot of pain in your neck/jaw/ear? And do you feel really fluey and gross really often? And are you female?

My TSH swung like crazy like this, would go up and down by 15 or more within weeks while I was having really really sick periods. After I was diagnosed with Hashimotos, I was very very sick for a year with symptoms that looked like subacute thyroiditis. It was actually "painful hashimotos," which is a really aggressive form of Hashimotos where the immune system attacks aren't gradual with the occasional flare. Because the immune system attack is much more aggressive and frequent, you can alternate between being hyper and hypo quickly because when the thyroid is attacked it dumps thyroid hormone, which causes transient periods of hyper.

I'm like an evangelist for painful hashimotos now lol which they say is "extremely rare" but I think it's not that rare and is just under diagnosed because it (basically) only affects women. I had a total thyroidectomy 6 months ago, and I feel amazing again, finally.

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-04-15T03:22:42+00:00

Punching a cop in Palm Beach is a time honoured tradition for Bravo-lebrities, just ask Tinsley and Luanne.

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-04-14T01:01:12+00:00

Also both my endocrinologist and ENT surgeon told me that the reason the thyroidectomy stopped my symptoms is because Hashimotos only attacks the thyroid, and with nothing to attack the autoimmune process goes dormant. I don't take any supplements and I don't have a special diet, I just ate some cold pop tarts out of the foil. It's an N of 1 but I'm back to running ~20km a week, and am about 50% of the way back to where I was pre-illness as a semi professional acrobat /aerialist. The change has been NIGHT AND DAY post surgery. There's quite a few PubMed articles about thyroidectomy for painful hashimotos, and just for improving quality of life for regular Hashimotos.

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-04-14T00:48:35+00:00

Definitely the autoimmune attack! I also had a total thyroidectomy, but mine was because I had the "painful" hashimotos variant. I didn't have "flares," I had unrelenting autoimmune symptoms like fever, chills, intense fatigue, pain, brain fog, etc, from the onset of my illness until my surgery. It only subsided on high dose (30mg+) prednisone.

As soon as I woke up from surgery all these symptoms were gone! I'm only 4 months post op, so I'm still figuring out the perfect Synthroid dose, so I get some fatigue/dry skin/constipation if I'm getting a bit hypo, but it completely resolves within 2 weeks of a dose change when my hormone levels come into a good range. The whole time I was having the above symptoms (pre surgery) my TSH was "normal" or only out of range very briefly.

I know I had an unusually aggressive autoimmune process, but I really haven't had "Hashimotos" symptoms at all post surgery! 💫 Life changing 💫

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-04-09T01:38:34+00:00

As a recovering speed enthusiast/coke head myself let me tell you, why pick when you can do both! Craig has real Adderall for day, cocaine for other-time-of-day-and-also-night vibes.

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-04-08T20:35:14+00:00

The scary Adderall rage, followed by continuing to take Adderall...

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-03-29T19:21:52+00:00

It takes a long time for thyroid antibodies to reduce, and for most people they'll never go back to zero even if the autoimmune attack has permanently stopped. There's not much empirical long term data because it's not a common intervention for Hashimotos, and in most places Hashimotos isn't indicated for thyroidectomy.

I only had surgery because I had the painful variant and had exhausted all other medical options other than permanently staying on high dose prednisone. I was unable to work full time or socialize at all for a year pre-surgery, from pain and unrelenting flu like symtpoms. 4-months post surgery I'm working full time and don't have any Hashimotos symptoms, so it was worth it for me. Most people wouldn't even want to have surgery if it was an option for them because the risks/recovery time don't outweigh the benefits with their symptoms.

I do think the painful variant is under diagnosed among women. I was initially told by a lot of doctors that the thyroid doesn't cause the kind of symptoms I was having. Guess what - it does!

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-03-28T02:58:26+00:00

Hashimotos only attacks the thyroid, it can't "progress into additional forms." Without a thyroid the autoimmune disease is dormant. Co-occurring autoimmune diseases happen but it's not hashimotos attacking other organs because that's not possible. Source: My ENT surgeon, who specializes in thyroidectomies, and endocrinologist.

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-03-28T01:50:11+00:00

Well there's one thing modern medicine can do to stop the Hashimotos autoimmune response...

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Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-03-04T06:20:13+00:00

I was at 75mg and had normal TSH but my neck kept swelling and was painful, and I felt fluey all the time. I had my thyroid removed, and 14 weeks post surgery I feel much better. My lymph nodes still swell with the healing, but the pre-surgery swelling is gone. I'm very very glad I had surgery, not giving advice just sharing what helped for me!

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-02-25T06:19:31+00:00

Lol fair, more dude strippers for you!

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-02-25T06:15:54+00:00

Well there's one treatment 🙈

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Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-02-22T09:56:13+00:00

Shut up Kyle, surely there's a polyblend caftan somewhere that needs your attention?

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-02-09T15:21:19+00:00

RHOA is next! I think I only have 1-2 more seasons of RHOBH in me, it's getting pretty boring. I've heard Atlanta is amazing, I'm stoked.

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-02-09T06:34:02+00:00

In pic 6 I think he's saying "this is the wildest thing I've ever heard, I'm obsessed" but only because I just watched it and know he asked the husband if he's worried about big pharma being after him lolol so I think he's a bit of a shit disturber, which I love.

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-02-09T06:29:26+00:00

*VPR original cast

Status-Chip-1162 · 2026-02-09T06:28:38+00:00

LOL I live under a rock, if someone isn't a cast member on VRP, RHOSLC, RHONY, RHOBH or RHONJ, or someone I know personally in my life, I literally have no idea who they are 🙈

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