Re: Blood tests - how often?

[Guest guest]

I'm a Hashi's patient (my own, by gosh), and I've been doing mine about

every 3 months or so, since I found out that they should be done more often.

This has been while I've been bringing my Armour up though. Maybe if I

tested the same levels and felt the same way for a yr or so, then I might

try for every six months, unless I started feeling bad again. It is an

individual thing, from person to person. Some people's glands burn out very

rapidly. Others are hanging in there still, causing massive confusion, like

mine, after 11 yrs of known hypo, who even knows if I fluctuated, because I

didn't know enough about it then, I thought it was much simpler than all

this. I know that in the beginning, I was hyper for a period of time, lost

all kinds of weight, and many other symptoms different from the hypo ones,

and some similar to. Then, about 4 yrs or so ago, I start feeling

graduallly worse and worse, til I tested out last yr , and it was definitely

the thyroid going WAYY haywire, with a 35 something TSH, and a Free T4

dropped down way below normal, whatever that is, and a Free T3 way down in

the very lower range. I have no idea what my thyroid antibodies were before

because I really didn't know to ask way back there, but when I tested them

myself this past spring, there both of them were in the thousands.

Blood tests - how often?

> Another question from a newbie...

> How often do most Hashis/hypo patients get blood tests to monitor

> their TSH, T4, and T3 levels? And how quickly/dramatically do these

> levels tend to fluctuate? (Wondering if my new doc should require a

> new blood test before deciding treatment since my first report is a

> month and a half old and I haven't started meds yet.)

>

> -Marina

[Guest guest]

Unless there is a dramatic change in symptoms, doctors usually do

routine blood work every 6 months or every 3 months if the meds are

still being adjusted.

Jan

marinara0404 wrote:

>Another question from a newbie...

>How often do most Hashis/hypo patients get blood tests to monitor

>their TSH, T4, and T3 levels? And how quickly/dramatically do these

>levels tend to fluctuate? (Wondering if my new doc should require a

>new blood test before deciding treatment since my first report is a

>month and a half old and I haven't started meds yet.)

>

>-Marina

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[Guest guest]

Unless there is a dramatic change in symptoms, doctors usually do

routine blood work every 6 months or every 3 months if the meds are

still being adjusted.

Jan

marinara0404 wrote:

>Another question from a newbie...

>How often do most Hashis/hypo patients get blood tests to monitor

>their TSH, T4, and T3 levels? And how quickly/dramatically do these

>levels tend to fluctuate? (Wondering if my new doc should require a

>new blood test before deciding treatment since my first report is a

>month and a half old and I haven't started meds yet.)

>

>-Marina

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