| I am hypo, and I was just telling my wife the other day about my ordeal getting properly diagnosed waaaaaay back in 1987. Long-story-short, basically there was about three doctors debating if I could be hypo because my symptoms were a bit weird, and what had them confused was that children with hypo basically present with inability to reason, are 'poor' students, etc., because of the lack of thyroid hormone(s). I, however, was head of my class. FINALLY, the head of Pediatrics comes in for a consult, and (since this was the US ARMY) she chewed out these other docs when she found out that not a single blood test had been run on me, and here they were openly debating whether or not they were right or wrong with their diagnosis. She sent me for labs right away.
My TSH was 19.5. The standard at the time was anything about 5.0 was hypo.
I felt better within weeks of starting the pills, but it took months to get the dosage right, and to be honest, I don't think we have ever gotten the dosage 'perfect'.
The Biosafe is the one I have seen at CVS. Whether you use that or convince your doc to test you, you'll have to wait.
Good luck with it; Dealing with hypothyroid isn't as life-threatening as dealing with T1, but at times it can be just as aggravating. It kinda becomes 'just one more thing' to deal with, but at least it can be handled with pills versus shots...and missing a pill isn't nearly the drama missing a shot can be.  | 
