TSH massive reduction??

[Booblet]

Hi,I'm quite worried about recent tests results.

My TSH level = 0.2

My T4 = 12.9.

Test results from yesterday (21.8.2024).

Test results from 5 months ago

My TSH level = 5.6

My TSH level = 9.2

Notes:

I have never had a TSH level below 2.5.

I'm sure I had a bad batch of Thyroid-S regarding my last results.

New batch seems better ( hence new results?)

I suffer from Adrenal Fatigue. I have recently changed my meds to: 100 mg Adrenal Cortex daily - a different make.

Should I be worried?

Regards

[Booblet]

Hi everyone,

Regarding my last post a few minutes ago please see test corrections: from

TSH = 5.94

T4 = 11

Tests levels from test in April 2024.

Test results showing recent tests are the same.

Love to you all.

[greygoose]

Well, your FT4 has gone up, so not surprising your TSH has gone down. What exactly are you worried about?

[Booblet in reply to greygoose]

Hi,Thks for your reply. What I'm really worried about is the big difference in result levels in 3 months.

TSH from 5.9 to 0 2.

[greygoose in reply to Booblet]

Well, I wouldn't say it was all that big. And it's certainly nothing to be worried about. The TSH is only a very rough guide to thyroid status, and is pretty much irrelevant once it gets below 1. All it does is try to stimulate the thyroid to make more thyroid hormone, and initiate conversion. It doesn't affect anything else.

What's more it is totally unpredictable, in controllable and can be erratic. So it's best ignored and forgotten.

[pennyannie]

Hello Booblet :

I read when taking any form of thyroid hormone replacement containing T3 -

the TSH will likely go low suppressed -

and when taking any form of thyroid hormone replacement we must dose and monitor on the Free T3 and Free T4 readings and not a TSH -

and on NDT we must monitor and dose on the T3 reading -

not a TSH nor a T4 - which can be proportionately, much lower in its range, than when taking synthetic thyroid hormones.

There have been issues with some batches of Thyroid S.

Do you actually have any readings of a T3 when optimally medicated on NDT so have an idea of your best dose ?

I also take full adrenal glandular and with Graves Disease and post RAI thyroid ablation 2005.

[blondpalomino in reply to pennyannie]

Hi,

I am on T3 and T4 and my TSH is 0.004. T3 supresses the TSH, but no Doctors seem to understand this and go mad when they see my blood results! As long as the T3 and T4 are within the guidelines there's no problem. My Doctor even made me switch to just T4 for a while, but it didn't make any difference to the blood results but made me feel awful, so I had to go back on T3 again.

[greygoose in reply to blondpalomino]

So what you're actually worried about is your doctor's reaction? Just tell him you understand the risks (there aren't any) and take full responsibility, but you refuse to give up your T3.

It's true, doctors know nothing about thyroid and don't even know the basics of how it all works. And there's not much you can do about that apart from self-treat and cut the doctors out.

[blondpalomino in reply to greygoose]

Hi Greygoose, I am fortunate enough to get T3 on NHS prescription, so I agreed to my doctors request to try just T4 for a couple of months to keep her onside, on the understanding that if it didn't work I could have the T3 back. Needless to say it didn't! I think it was at a time when the price for T3 was exorbitant and they were trying to get as many people off it if they could.

[kiefer]

"I suffer from Adrenal Fatigue. I have recently changed my meds to: 100 mg Adrenal Cortex daily - a different make."

Taking something that raises cortisol levels can cause the TSH level to be lowered.

"Thyroid dysregulation through the HPT axis: Cortisol can affect the activity of thyroid hormones in the HPT axis. It can inhibit the release of thyrotropin-stimulating hormone (TSH) from the pituitary gland, thereby decreasing the stimulation of the thyroid gland to produce thyroid hormones."

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