@teresahunter - you comment above that a low carb diet isn't easy with your diagnosis. Which part of it makes it hard for you? Like any other form of way of eating, there are lots and lots of variants that can be tried.
Obviously, as a LADA there's no enormous need for you to go LC, but many do find it an effective way to trim up. Nothwithstanding that my diagnosis was T2, I didn't set out to lose weight at diagnosis, I was prely concentrating on my blood glucose scores), but I got skinny fast.
You suggest you are gluten intolerant? Have you been formally tested for Coeliac Disease, or did you just work out the gluten intolerance yourself? The reason I ask about coeliac is it quite often travels with diabetes, thyroid and other auto-immune conditions.
I'm glad you've found Health Unlocked to be useful. For me it was a complete revelation when I was trying to get my head around the spiders' web which is our hormones and the processing from TSH though to a decent thyroid function.
As your thyroid issues are more complex that my own, I wouldn't like to comment on your doses specifically, but in general terms 50mcgr is a very modest dose of levothyroxine. Do you have regualt blood tests every 6 weeks or so to check your levels are in a decent range?
When I started in Levo, I was started in a teenie, tiny dose of 25mcgr, which has been tweaked up and up over the last year (how time flies!) to 125mcgr, and I'm likely still just a little bit short on being at my optimal dosage.
A bit like insulin therapy, how mauch an individual needs to return to a decent, symptom-free functioning position can vary enormously, so please don't grasp too much into my numbers, it was more illustrating it can sometimes be a slow process to get these balances right.
Hopefully your Endo will shed more light. November seems a very long way away, if you're not quite feeling on par. I have gone privately to a few Endo appointments, to just get things moving faster. (Imaptient, moi?) Whilst it cost a bit of money, it felt worth it for me.
The Endo I used was very sympathetic (my private medical insurers would not pay, as they insist thyroid issues and diabetes are connected, which in my case is likely to be poppy-****, but there we go), and asked who was paying for my treatment. On hearing I was self-funding, he immediately wrote to my GP and asked her to run all the diagnostic tests (about 30 of them - I was tested for just about everything you can imagine!) in the NHS lab, which she was happy to do. I then went back to discuss the results with him.
Since, my GP has been in email contact with him, in order to have him effectively take her knowledge forward, whilst I begin to get the treatment I appear to need.
As I say, it cost a bit for the initial consultation and follow up, but it hasn't been a complete money sink. If you are uncomfortable about the wait or are feeling pretty unwell, it could be money well spent if you can find it. That way, I could also go the person I wanted to see (be reputation), not a random referral.
It is all a bit complex for sure, and sometimes it's tricky to know how best to pick our way through the options, choices, riska and rewards.
I just hope I haven't unsettled you too much with my input.