Monitor my health results

[foxglove]

TSH 3.25, (0.27-4.2) T4 12.7, (12-22) T3 3.7 (3.1-6.8)

Recent test results - told all ok . Is that so do you think? ...I feel more or less well!

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

foxglove

What thyroid meds are you taking and when did you take your last dose before the test? Last doses should be:

Levo - 24 hours before blood draw

NDT or T3 - 8-12 hours before blood draw - splitting dose into 2 or 3 and adjusting time if necessary the day before.

Did you do your test no later than 9am and have nothing to eat or drink except water before?

Your results show TSH to be too high for a treated Hypo patient, most feel best when it's 1 or lower. Most people would want FT3 higher as well, also FT4 higher if on Levo. But if you feel well then you could leave things as they are, or does "more or less well" mean that you could and want to feel better?

[foxglove in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thanks for reply, I take 25mcg of levo and .a quarter grain Thyroid-s, more or less well means although I could (like almost all at this time) feel better I don't think it is necessarily thyroid linked! I will continue thyroid meds I'm on for a bit and maybe seek answers re other things, test done according to guidance, and I don't feel at all "right" if TSH is below one, feel better if it's about where it is now!

Onwards and upwards!.... just as well we're all different and must allow for that

[shaws Administrator]

Results - definately NOT o.k.

"TSH 3.25, (0.27-4.2) T4 12.7, (12-22) T3 3.7 (3.1-6.8")"

You need an increase in dose. We do not want 'all o.k' we want optimum.

You need TSH of 1 or lower. Your doctor should be increasing dose.

You need T4 towards the upper part of the range - not lower.

You need T3 nearer 6 rather than at the bottom.

Request increase in dose.

The professionals are so inept due to their training.

I think the majority have not been exposed to

'how best to help patient reduce clinical symptoms if they have a dysfunctional thyroid gland'.

I think the should be told that they should join this forum for a week or two and that it would be more beneficial than being told - whatever that is - when they're being trained.

[foxglove in reply to shaws]

Thanks for reply, I don't feel well at all if TSH is below one - feel better if it's between 2.5 and 3.5 Doctor is prescribing 25 mcg of levo and I'm adding .25 grain thyroid-s myself. Have also had test done at gp but haven't checked results yet and in any case dr. only now checks TSH. See my reply to seaside Susie

[shaws Administrator in reply to foxglove]

Our bodies do tell us indirectly of what is right for us.

Before blood tests were introduced (giving Big Pharma more profits) we were prescribed according to clinical symptoms and given NDT slowly increased until we were symptom-free.

It's quite sometime since I've had a blood test as I feel fine (thankfully) and have also reduced my dose of T3.

[foxglove in reply to shaws]

Think I will skip blood tests for a bit - sometimes I think these tests only confuse. Seems there is a blood test prescribed automatically these days, in many ways the old ways saved a lot of angst Pleased you're feeling fine and managed to reduce T3 dose

[shaws Administrator in reply to foxglove]

Quite number of years have passed since I diagnosed myself.

None of the doctors I consulted even thought of hypothyroidism.

I am content because I was fortunate to consult both Dr Skinner and Dr Peatfield (both now deceased).

Towards the end of their careers they were pursued as if they were criminals (Dr S appearing before the GMC several times but always found to be doing anything wrong).

Dr P resigned his licence due to the strain but could still 'advise' patients but couldn't prescribe so patients sourced their own.

That makes one wonder that if these two 'old school doctors' who healed their patients and offered options if necessary were pursued as if criminals it would have scared other professionals.

It certainly wasn't their patients (who travelled the whole of the UK) who complained but I believe it would probably have been 'those who make the guidelines' so that other doctors would be afraid of the possibility of losing their licences if they did not 'follow'.

[foxglove in reply to shaws]

Thanks for reply, the "blessed" guidelines" have a lot to answer for. Where oh where are the doctors who follow their own instincts ?