I don't think you need to worry. I've been diagnosed 20+ years ago and this diagnosis didn't impact my life...take your medication as prescribed and get blood tests done 1x per year (or when you feel that anything is off, e.g. you're more tired than usual) to see if your dose needs adapting, but other than that, I don't think you need to be concerned.

I think a lot of people change their food habits and help rebalance their immune system. Cutting out gluten, taking good Omega 3 ‘s is a good start.

@Emmasian94 No, I didn't. When my blood tests showed that I am low on Vit D, I started to take supplements (as described by my doc). I wouldn't panic now or change your lifestyle. When I asked my doc whether I need to change my diet because of the low Vitamin D, they told me that with my particular condition it would be impossible to get to a normal Vitamin D level without taking supplements. Also, (although I am very wary about talking about anything medical on here because I am no professional), I don't think that this condition usually links to a weak auto immune system. I never get sick, my entire family (who doesn't share this diagnosis) get sick far more often. I wasn't in a COVID risk group (I checked) and didn't qualify for getting my COVID vaccine early two years back because of this condition, I wasn't considered to be at higher risk than other people of my age.

Yes, I was diagnosed in the height of covid, so at the time petrified of health services.
I felt horrific and after a colleague accused me of being drunk at work because I was slurring my words I booked a phone gp appt.
She booked me in for urgent bloods at 10am, and at 5:30pm she rang me asking for me to go to hospital right away.
Explained it was UAT, I said no, said I would rest and drink a lot. I had a kidney function of 30% so it was beginning to affect key organs.... many years of undiagnosed and untested UAT does this.

Meds went up every 3/4 months, ended up on thyroxine 150mg.
Last month I felt rough, craps, anxiety, unable to sleep, and made the call to the dr that I needed more bloods.
Repeat of diagnosis day, went in at 10am, phone call after 5pm, Im now massively overactive.

Which has been due to lifestyle and diet changes, and taking pre conception vitamins...
so I've gone from 150 to 75.... and still feel overactive.

Cut out gluten and processed food. Which really isn't as hard as I thought. I will still have the odd piece of garlic bread but that's it.

I always felt like UAT would affect me for life but I'm hoping to reverse it.

Not everyone is able to do this, I think it's dependent on how your body is and how badly damaged your thyroid is.

Lots and lots of reading, that's all I can say.

Honestly it’s had minimal impact on me- diagnosed over ten years ago. Just take thyroxine and adjust (as per doctor) when levels are off. Didn’t change my diet/cut out gluten and I’m fairly healthy overall.

I was diagnosed at 25 (now 42). It has had very little impact on my life. I take a tablet once a day and have a blood test once a year and that's it. I was also diagnosed with coeliac disease a couple of years later, that's had a far greater impact on day to day life but I feel so much better not eating gluten that I can cope with that.

Hate to say it but I have this and it has taken over my life. I have no energy, ever. I am being tested for a malabsorption problem aswell as I too had my gallbladder removed but I'm on 250mcg of levo a day and still feel like shit. Could sleep my entire life away. My mood is horrendous and changes like the f*cking weather, actually I've been diagnosed with bipolar type 2 (depression) because no one can get my ongoing depression and anxiety under control. I am questioning this however as I don't tend to have any other symptoms of that just literally had a totally flat mood for around 11 years. Feel like someone's strangling me constantly I had an ultrasound on my thyroid last month and the sonographer basically said it's enlarged and lumpy and 'unhappy'. I ache head to toe. It's been utterly miserable for me and I don't know where to turn I am under an endocrinologist but only seen her once and I've had this problem 10 years. I think my case is a little unusual and probably sounds extreme but it's ruled my life for so long. Hope you're ok OP xx

Oh sorry elaborating on the bipolar thing, the lady who scanned my neck said she scanned a lady not so long ago who's mother when she was alive was put into a psychiatric hospital due to poor mental health, underwent assessments, had no MH problems it was her thyroid all along. It controls almost everything including your mood etc it's so important it's controlled properly! She was a new woman when they got her fully under control. X