Thyroid results

[rsharris]

Armour decreases from 120 to 60 mg qam

Lab results

TSH 2.20

Free serum tridothyroninne 2.6

Reverse T3 17.4

T4 Free 0.74

All labs within normal range except T4

TSH and T4 were very low on Armour 120 everyday went up to 1 1/2 Armour now on 90 mg

[shaws Administrator]

I have looked on your Profile, but you've given no background to your journey, re hypothyroidism. i.e. when diagnosed, with what etc.

When you give your blood test results, and due to the fact that labs use different machines so have different ranges, it is helpful if ranges can also be stated so that more accurate responses can be made.

The purpose of taking thyroid hormones is to reduce our TSH to around 1 or lower, and blood tests were introduced along with levothyroxine alone so if we take NDT (Armour etc - which has all the hormones a healthy gland woud produce) it is mainly about how the person 'feels' on particular doses rather than results.

NDT (Armour etc) is the very original thyroid hormone replacement from 1892 (in different forms) and without which thousands would have died. We used to be diagnosed upon symptoms alone and given NDT which was gradually increased until symptoms were relieved. There were no blood tests.

If you have the ranges of your results, you can amend your post by clicking on the down arrow and selecting edit.

You also need B12, Vit D, iron, ferritin and folate tested. Deficiencies can also cause clinical symptoms.