Guest guest Posted February 2, 2010 Report Share Posted February 2, 2010 I went to t he doctor a few days ago....Keeping in mind that I weaned off of hydrocortisone over a period of 6 months. I was on 3 gr armour and then couldn't find it. I started on 3 gr compounded t4/t3 in miid December. In mid Jan. had my blood work done. the t4 was below range. t3 was in low normal range. tsh was .4 A lot of symptoms of hypo returned with my new medication - i.e. couldn't get out of bed inj the morning, weight gain (I had been losing up until the med change), cranky and fatigue. The doctor believed that my numbers had cratered because of the fact that I was off the HC. She beleived it was more due to my adrenals than thy because of conversion issues.... I called about a week later to ask for a raise in my t4, but they want to wait until the results from adrenal saliva test comes back which should be in a few days. Since I ordered the compounded dessicated T4/T3 from WIP 10 days ago, I have felt a teeny bit better. Any thoughts on these numbers???? thanks for your input. steph Ellis Ecke, LPC, LCDC Life Transformation Coaching and Counseling www.stephanieecke.com "Let the Transformation Begin!" Re: Dr vist today Your Free T4 at .79 is extremely low at slightly below the bottom of its range. I would want a slightly higher dose of thyroid or maybe the addition of some synthetic T4 to bring it up to midrange. > > > > HI all, > > > > I had my Dr visit today, the Dr told me he like my blood work but i was telling him i still have some hypo symtoms so he was conserned about that so he told me we could increase my thyroid med or try Iodoral along with the thyroid med. he told me he thinks i need the iodoral but left it up to me. so we are going to try the iodoral and if i still don't feel better then we will try to indrease the thyroid med. but he went a head and called in 3 months supply of my thyroid med and biest/pro too. he also said that if start to bleed again is to call him and he will do a ultra sound done. so i hope i am doing the right thing? > > > > Oh i have been thinking. would any thyroid med make you obesse no matter what dose you are on or would that be if you are not on the right dose ? or would that be if you don't take your thyroid med. > > now when some one is taking thyroid med are we helping to kill the thyroid ? OR are we trying to stop it from dying? Thanks > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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