Hi all, I have waited out the 6-8 weeks! Hurray! All info below and in profile
Looking for advice what my new numbers mean for my next med change:
🔸T4 and/or T3: Can we tell if I'm a good converter? I know I have some room to go with the T4 (target by weight could be 100 mcgs), and my doctor started me on T3 way too early. I have hopes one day I can revert back to just T4 because T3 is so complex to take. But of course I'm afraid I'll feel worse if I reduce anything. So maybe increase T4 to 75 mcg??? Less??? Prob no change to T3 yet?
🔸D3 - Thinking to double my supplement from 1 to 2 of these: (2500 IU (62.5mcg) Can I do this at the same time as anything else here?
🔸Regards to Iron, is it safe to say that it's chicken livers for me... Ferritin rock bottom but Iron 90% through range. Do the other iron panel numbers tell me anything useful?
Symptom check:
After a few weeks of utter hopelessness, turned a corner in the last couple weeks... dare I say... I feel "better" and actually pretty good. Scale of 1 - 100 I'd give myself an 85! So relatively speaking I'm "functional" vs being dysfunctional so much of the time, but I know I have a little bit more to go as I'm still experiencing a smaller slice of the usual symptoms - fatigue, brain fog, some joint/muscle pain, cold, and other random hypo stuff.
So here's what I tested:
30OCT2023 Thyroid (below), Vitties (below), Cortisol (in profile), Celiac (looks negative - in profile)
14NOV2023 Iron Panel (below), EBV (positive in past)/Mono (negative)
Comparison to 6 weeks ago
🔸TSH: 0.553 (.550 - 4.780) dropped from 2.2
🔸FT4: 0.97 (.89 - 1.76) 9% in range up by 25 points FROM 0.76
🔸FT3: 3.3 (2.3 - 4.2) 52% in range up FROM 42% (3.1)
* Vitties compared to 4 mos ago
🔸B12: 800 (211-911) 84% FROM 64% (652)
🔸D3: 56 (31-100) 36% DOWN FROM 79 (70%) Despite adding once daily 2500 IU (62.5mcg) vit D this summer, I also stopped drinking a lot of milk at the same time to avoid the calcium! ha!
🔸Folate: 21.1 (>5.4 ng/ml) was 10.6 > 6.59 NG/ML
🔸Ferritin 7 (7-271) - first time testing; YIKES, GOT FULL IRON PANEL!
* First Iron Panel (on 14NOV 2 weeks after the above)
🔸IRON:158 (50-170 ug/dl)
🔸UIBC 211 (130-375 ug/dl)
🔸TIBC 369 (250-425 ug/dl)
🔸% Saturation 43 (12-50%)
🔸CRP, Sensitive 0.7 (0.0 - 2.9 mg/L)
🔸TRANSFERRIN PENDING
🔸B12 878
🔸Ferritin 13
My current meds daily:
T4/Synthroid 50mcg taken 6:30 - 7:15 am
T3/Cytomel... 10 mcg total
2.5 6:30 - 7:15 am

2.5 11:30-12:30
5mcg at 11-1 am
An allergy pill (Zyrtec), Glucosamine/Chondroitin, Vit D gummy (2500 IU (62.5mcg)