Your body temps are low, you were not using iodized salt, eyebrows sparse indicating long term.
See if you can get these tested:
TSH
fT3
fT4 [please not T3, T4]
rT3
With your stress background, you could have elevated rT3 indicating adrenal fatigue from stress.
TSH should be near 1.0, so good there.
Is your thyroid enlarged, lumpy, sore, asymmetrical?
With long term low iodine, TSH could have been high in the past which can lead to thyroid nodules making thyroid hormones outside of TSH control loop and as that progresses, TSH is reduced and that can sometimes progress to hyperthyroidism where TSH is very low. There is a whole spectrum of things that can go on and TSH only good for crude screening that can be misleading in some cases.
You need to find a source of selenium. Get multi-vits that list iodine+selenium
How long were you not using iodized salt?
Why, family did not use?
Other family members affected?
You do not get iodine in restaurant foods or prepared foods.
Please read the stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- finding a TRT doc