blood test result

[tallulah100]

Hi everyone, i am not sure if anyone can help me. but im hoping. at the beginning of September i changed from armour to levo and thybon henning t3. the last few weeks i started to feel really unwell. so i organised blood test two days before test i was so ill i didnt take my second 10 mcg t3 nor any of the next days dose of levo or t3. went for blood test next day and they couldnt get any blood, thats another long story. i then had to wait another day to get new test. so was 4 days without any thyroid hormones. just got test result and t3 is 2.33 range 3.1 to 6.8 and t4 13.3, 12-2

and tsh 1.32 0.27 -4.20. the reason i stopped was i thought i had become over medicated. but because of delay in testing it is difficult to tell. does anyone know how long it would take for my t3 to drop so low. it seems a lot for 4 days without, it could be that i was undermedicated. i realise i will have to go back on and retest in a few weeks. i just wonder if anyone can say from these figures which was more likely. i may need to start again at a lower dose. thank you for your time and sorry for the ramble.

[greygoose]

T3 has a half-life of about 24 hours. That means that if you took 10 mcg T3 at 8 o'clock one morning, by 8 o'clock the following morning there would be 5 mcg left, minus what got absorbed. The next day it would be about 2.5 mcg left. Etc. etc. etc. until there's none left. So, no, it doesn't seem a lot for 4 days when you're only taking 10 mcg.

Why did you go ahead with the test after having stopped your hormone for that time? Waste of a test. The FT3 just shows that you stopped taking it, and conversion hadn't had time to kick back in. The FT4 level doesn't show anything except that it's too low. But it would be low, anyway, when taking T3. So, as we don't have the previous test to compare it to, no-one is any the wiser.

[tallulah100 in reply to greygoose]

Thank you, I took test because I wasn't sure if I was very overmedicated and wanted to know where to start, I take 100 levo and 20 t3, t3 split into two, so I'm thinking I may have been overmedicated, and will start back with 100 levo and 15 t3, 10 am and 5 pm, then test again in a few weeks. I'm guessing g it was overmedication because I was so ill and thought I was going to pass out, and since I stopped I feel a bit better, although now suffering g from under treatment, but not as bad before I stopped. Thank you for your advice, it helps clarify what has been going on.

[greygoose in reply to tallulah100]

Yes, but if you stop your hormones a few days before the blood test you're not going to be able to tell if you were over-medicated.

since I stopped I feel a bit better

That doesn't mean anything. For a start, it might just have been a coincidence, a virus, and nothing to do with your thyroid hormones. Also, it happens to everyone that if, for whatever reason, you stop taking your levo/T3/NDT, you will feel better for a while. But, it doesn't last.

[tallulah100 in reply to greygoose]

Yes I realise that but I felt so ill I couldn't function, I've never felt that ill for any thing else, it's was either stop or go to A and E, and I avoid the medical services whenever possible. I know I shouldn't have done the test then or stopped the pills, but it has given me a starting point I now know I can start taking them again and it won't hurt to start at a slightly lower dose and test again to see if I am going in the right direction. Its very difficult when you are in the middle of a situation and don't know which way to go.Thank you for your advice, I know I messed up but we live and learn, hopefully I will find where I need to be soon

[greygoose in reply to tallulah100]

I'm not saying you shouldn't have stopped the hormones, it's a sensible thing to do under the circumstances. But it wasn't sensible then go ahead with the test.

That said, I've never heard of anyone being so ill from being slightly over-medicated - and it can't have been by much - for such a short time. So, are you sure you didn't have some sort of bug? Or, perhaps, do you have Hashi's?