Re: My Labs:Lin

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Again, you need the Free T3 and the Free T4 because these labs here don't tell anything about what's available for use. Again, www.healthcheckusa.com. Evidently your doctor is not going to run your antibodies tests. You need these badly. Your potassium----maybe adrenal problems, with a stressed body. This is almost across the board with thyroid problems, and especially with the physical stressors that you have already, i.e., diabetes. See my previous post to you on the diet with this. Uric acid---Do you have joint aches, particularly in the feet, but any joint aches? Gout carries a high uric acid. Ferritin----WAYYY too low. Do you eat red meat? If not, you definitely need to, and I can't believe this doctor is not paying attention to this. he doesn't know what he's doing with this, if he hasn't even advised to take an iron supplement. Those ranges are sooo doubtful. A 60 to 70 would be good. MCHC-----I don't see the MCV or the other red blood cell counts here. Did you previously post them, and I just don't remember? They are vitally important to determine, yes, folic acid and B12 shortage, to get a full picture. I love www.healthcheckusa.com.

Re: Re: Hi Ya'll need help with lab resultsYou can get the antibodies testing through HealthCheck also, I did. Itcosted around $60 for both of the major antibodies to thyroid, if the docwon't run it. This can cause a lot of symptoms, when these things arepummeling away at your thyroid. I'm not saying that's what it is, just agood thought. Also, you need a ferritin, not serum iron, if you haven't hadthat test. B12 and folic acid wouldn't be a bad idea either. My personalopinion is that you are not eating enough, that! you actually need 6comprehensive meals a day, but very small meals, with lots of nutrients inthem, to make them all count. One cheesestick simply doesn't amt toanything, and with thyroid patients, you won't lose weight on this kind of adiet, rather, you will gain, because a slow metabolism is going to save upeverything it can, considering your body thinks you're now in starvationmode. I believe in the TSH test to make a full picture of everything goingon, but I don't believe that it should be used to regulate what kind ofdosage you are on. As a matter of fact, it often proves how little it hasto do with how much thyroid hormone you need, so your reference to using itas a guide?---Don't encourage the doctor to use this, as this is also whathe's been taught. It is the level of your thyroid hormones that counts, andTSH is a pituitary hormone, not the thyroid hormone. The Totals testingtells us nothin! g about your thyroid health status.