Re: My Endo Visit

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Well, I had my appt. with a new endo yesterday.  She's listed on the top docs

with several recommendations.  I will say that I was quite pleased with the

visit and it was somewhat like talking to a friend.  Here's some of the

highlights:

on thyroid:  she's checking TSH, Free T4 and Free T3.  She said she does like

to use the TSH because it tells you directly what the pituitary gland is

reading from the body.  That actually is true.  BUT she continued on to say

that

in her Hashi's patients she works to get the TSH suppressed to less than

1...and preferably between .3 and 1. 

I was okay with that.  She did mention that she has some patients who are

lower than that and feel better...and sorta indicated that makes her a little

nervous...but she deals with it. 

on adrenal:  she really did seem a bit unfamiliar with treating " adrenal

fatigue " .  we discussed it and she said she could certainly understand the

concept

and thought she needed to read up on it more.  But what she is did was to

check my cortisol serum level and we will see what that says...and possibly

do

that cortisol stimulating test later.  She did mention that adrenal function

should always be checked in Hashi's patients since that have an additional

risk

of developing adrenal insufficiency.  I knew that, and was glad to see that

she

did too.

She's also ran blood work to check DHEA and FSH.  I was unfamiliar with FSH

but it's the Follicle Stimulating Hormone from the pituitary gland which

supposedly tells where you are as far as menopause.  Anyone else familiar

with that

one?

We also talked about Suzanne Somers.  She had not read the book ( I told her

to be sure to read it) but was familiar with some of Suzanne Somers taking

hormones and the breast cancer stuff.  It was this endo's opinion that unless

you're having menopause symptoms (I don't) that it's best to wait to take the

estrogens and progesterone unless one is really really deficient.  According

the

my previous 24 hour urine clearance test, I'm still in range, although low. 

So anyway, I told the endo to read up on bio-identical homones because that's

what I would want. 

So...it'll be about 10 days before I get the results of all my blood work. 

So for now, I'll stay on my 3 grains and we'll see what those ranges look

like.

But all and all, I felt I did find a endo that would work with me...and not

against me. 

Cindi

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> But all and all, I felt I did find a endo that would work with

me...and not

> against me.

> Cindi

SOunds like you got a winner Cindi. Good for you! I am going to watch

your progress since I don't have and " PROPER " doctor or any

prescribing meds to me, I am going to kinda follow along with you

since we are in similar situations as far as time of diagnosis and

starting Armour etc.. Hope you don't mind .

[Guest guest]

I had my LH and FSH tested by my regular Dr and they were out of

whack do my gyn had them tested on the 3rd day of my period.

Keep in mind that during perimeno your hormones are going everywhere

so one day your blood test might be normal and the next day they

might be off so you really have to go by your symptoms. There really

isn't a blood test to determine if you are perimeno or not. (This

from the change before the change by Dr Corio.)

Louise

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> She's also ran blood work to check DHEA and FSH.  I was unfamiliar

with FSH

> but it's the Follicle Stimulating Hormone from the pituitary gland

which

> supposedly tells where you are as far as menopause.  Anyone else

familiar

> with that

> one?

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> Cindi

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