Someone has scared you in a bad way and I am sorry for it.
Thyroid replacement hormone is the healthiest thing you can do for yourself if you are hypothyroid. There is no risk of bone depletion as long as your levels are good, which is as easy as a blood test once in a while and an eye to your own body's symptoms.
You would have to be on TOO MUCH thyroxine for a LONG PERIOD OF TIME in order to lose bone mass.
But having an underactive thyroid and not treating it properly will do much worse things to you than losing bone mass. You risk your heart (high cholesterol and heart disease), your sight, your hearing, your bones and joints and muscles (hypothyroidism kills fast-twitch muscle fibers), and much much more. Not in the least is that hypothyroidism worsens insulin resistance, making PCOS symptoms worse and speeding your way to diabetes.
Please, please be monitored by a doctor, have your levels tested and try to optimise them. If you want to go on natural supplementation, try Armour thyroid. It is dessicated pig thyroid and contains all the elements of a functioning thyroid, unlike Synthroid or Levoxyl which are T4 (thyroxine) only. There is also bio-thyroid as an alternative natural thyroid source.
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PCOS+IR, Hypothyroidism
Sleep Apnea (cured by tonsillectomy)
Age 31, DH 39, 4 furrball babies!
Logan Scott born April 9, 2004!
Conor James born Nov 1, 2006.
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