Lubbock marathon

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We made it to Lubbock with 5 minutes to spare before DH's appt.

Whew. Mine was right after his. Overall, I'm lookin' pretty good.

Great lipid panel, so the Omacor is doing a great job. My Free T3%

of total Free T3+T4 is up to 30.1% from 19.1% in Jan. '05 so the doc

was pleased. He said he finds most folks low in that 19% or so range

when they first come to him. My DHEA finally shot up to 1760 (range

2000-3000 ng/ml) from the 1100s over the last year, and that's no

doubt contributed greatly to my feeling better and more at peace.

Antibodies were about the same at 61 (range <35 IU/ml). The doc

thought that my recent stress from broken sleep, due to street

construction for 3 weeks, and worry over DH's pneumonia might have

increased them from a lower value, but we will never know. My TSH

rose a bit to .60 from .30 (.3-5.1/ml), and he said he would have

expected me to feel a little worse, but I feel better. Maybe the

DHEA climb made up for it. I will add more Armour as I'm able, and I

got a scrip for .25 grains, so I can play with tiny bits. But it

will be slower going for sure.

(Note: re my question about the thyroid antibodies attacking the

conversion process or not, the doc said, no, the antibodies are

specific for locking onto the tissue itself. Not T4/T3 in the blood.)

My Estrogens dropped, which he said often happens as the thyroid

indices improve. I can't remember the biochemistry about this, but I

think they can trade out with each other. He wondered if I felt any

side effects like night sweats, sleep issues. I haven't, so we left

that alone. My issue is still my iron. I climbed back up to 17%

saturation from the 10% last February (20-50%), so he's ok with that

for now, but I have started Vit C to help absorption, hopefully. My

ferritin is still good at 136 (10-220 ng/dl), and my serum iron rose

to 57 from 34 (35-145 ug/dl), so I was glad of that, but the darned

TIBC at 303 (250-450 ug/dl) didn't drop enough to shoot that % sat

up higher. All the components seem to bounce all over the place, and

never work in concert to give me what I need. Sigh.

I don't have to return for a year! Yay! Happy, happy.

The doc felt he could help DH, so we went ahead and ordered the

tests. DH will fly back out on 12/1 for results and consult. His

first BBT reading this morning was 97.1. Hmmmm. Me thinks there's

something rotten in the state of Denmark....

DH is on prednisone for his auto-immune flare up, so the doc

couldn't do the a.m. cortisol test. DH will do it in Dallas when he

is two weeks out from finsihing his meds. Since he didn't do the

cortisol test, they went ahead and took the blood for the rest and

we decided to have dinner and motor on home to our own beds. I was

able to help drive a lot this time, but we were still quite bushed

the next day and Sat. We got out for a walk on Sunday and we're

finally back on track today. I'm just so glad DH agreed to do this.

I think he's really glad about it too. I just know he's going to be

low in DHEA, iron, B12, testosterone and his Free T's. He didn't

find his old TSH tests, but he told me they were .7x several years

ago and 1.7x last year.

(I asked about the TSH variation range throughout a day, and the doc

said not usually more than 10%)

DH agreed to the diet change, so perhaps we can both get back on

track. I have been sooooo bored with my diet and got off the porch.

Time to re-dedicate and find new recipes and cook in larger

quantities.

I'm not going to post full lab results and ranges unless someone is

interested.

Sara