Guest guest Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 If your temps are accurate at 37 then they seem ok to me, someone else may help there but Dr Rinds site is a good one to look at and shows you how to graph your daily average temps, I have been doing that for just over a week now--- On Fri, 26/9/08, sm_telo <sm_telo@...> >> > > --- On Fri, 26/9/08, sm_telo <sm_telo@... > wrote> > Hi ,I later decided to stick with the omega 3 first to see how i go on that..if i later feel it is not enough, will consider the HC..thanks i will have a look at Dr Rinds chart.Omega3 Morepa is very concentrated, i do find my body feels warmer when i take it..so i think it is helping the adrenals.Simone > > > > > > Lately i have been monitoring my adrenals..as i now have a mercury> thermometer. .i place the thermometer under my arm for 10 minutes...the> last 5 days my bmt has been 37...and afternoon temperature> consistently 37 and evening temp 37. All i have been taking for the> last few weeks is Omega 3 MorEPA. Could this be helping with my> adrenals and increasing my temperature.> With temperatures like these, would this indicate that my thyroid and> adrenals are doing ok?> > Many thanks,> > Simone > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 2008 Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 The reference range for Ferritin level is around 20 to 200 for women. Your ferritin level is low, it should be around 70 to 90 for you to feel good. You cannot absorb thyroid hormone replacement properly if your stored iron is low. Your doctor should be prescribing 200 mgs of Ferrous Sulphate or Ferrous Fumerate for you to build this up. When taking any iron supplementation, you should take it three to four hours away from your thyroid replacement. It is OK to continue with your thyroxine. Try taking your thyroxine when you go to bed Simone. Luv - Sheila I just did some tests again. I am taking no thyroid medication. In feb my results were: tsh 2.2. FT4 16.8 FT3 2.86. Now in october tsh 2.5 FT4 17.8 FT3 4.6 I am curious to know why my T4 has risen yet my tsh has risen slightly too. With a high FT4 like 17.8, ferritin - 49.9 ...would it be unwise for me to take thyroxine? At the moment am supporting my adrenals with adrenal supplements. Overall i feel ok, just a bit of in .._,___ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Gosh the thyroid storm must have been frightening, how did it start? Was it picked up by your GP? Did you ever get to the bottom of what caused it? Lyndsay > > > > Hi Lyndsey, > > I had a thyroid storm in 2003, slightly overactive was put on > overactive meds and in a month had tsh of 70, i refused to take > thyroxine and my body readjusted itself int 8 months with no meds to a > a tsh of 2.2. > Am on no meds at the moment. I had the feeling low came after that > episode prior to that had not experienced the blues as i do sometimes > now. > I wondered what anyone thought of primrose oil, and is anyone taking > it. re maca, i don't think maca is particularly good as it is from the > turnip family i think and is goitrogenic i have heard of people have > bad reactions to this product making them more hypo..ironically it is > advertised as a product for hypothyroidism!. > > Warm thoughts to all, > > simone > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Sorry i know i keep on repeating the same question on here. But my last results tsh 3.82 range 0.3-4.2 Ft4 18.9 range 12 -22 I cannot take armour as i tried it again for one day and it made me feel sick. If i were to take levothyroxine, i am concerned as my Ft4 is already quite high on no medicaton. I do not understand how my Ft4 can be so high, you would think in theory with a high Ft4 my tsh should be much lower, could this me a lab mistake?? or are some reading like this. Simone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 ***Thanks for the response..yes i have had antibodies test done last yearand result was slightly elevated 34 (range 0-9). Consultant at thetime said yes there was a problem but did not warrant treatment aslevel were only slightly elevated.I have to say in november i took evening primrose oil for a month andstopped as all of a sudden i started having heavy face flushing, neverhad this before..my tsh before november was 2.2 Ft4 17 i think.now this blood test is a month and half after evening primrose oilintake..i have since discovered epo is a goitrogen...and honestly feelit was this that made my tsh go up...it has never been 3.8 since ifirst had my problem in 2003..always in the 2 or 1 range. I don'tknow if this means my body just needs more time to recover from theevening primorose oil incident or if now i am officially hypo.All very strange!Hi Simone, This is very strange indeed. I have never heard that EPO would make anybody hypothyroid. It is a good source for Omegas, and if anything, I would have thought it more useful than harmful. What makes you sure that the flushing was due to the EPO? Could it have been co-incidence? I don't know your age, but is it possible that you might be approaching menopause and that the flushing could have been a result of that? This is how it started with me in my mid-forties; my face would occasionally flush on a couple of days or so and I'd feel unbearably hot for a short while, but then nothing would happen for a few weeks or even months. The menopause "proper" with all the flushes started when I was 47. TSH fluctuations are not unusual and can have many reasons, but unfortunately with a TSH of 3.8 you would not likely get "officially" diagnosed hypothyroid in this country (UK) ... not even presenting a positive autoantibody count However, the likelihood that you will (if you haven't already) at some point develop Hashimoto's, is high. The amount of your thyroid autoantibodies at last count wasn't very high, but that is not the point. The point is that they are present - never mind the figures. The actual amount will go up and down, depending on if and when those autoantibodies might be attacking your thyroid gland. What would help is to establish a new, full thyroid panel for you, meaning TSH, FT4, FT3 & thyroid autoantibodies, to see where you stand. Only when you look at all those parameters together in relation to each other and their norm ranges, you will see what's going on. - Do you think you can persuade your GP to let you have such a blood test? Best wishes, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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