New / preparing for Dr appt on Monday

[Guest guest]

Hi

My name is Zera and I hope you can help me. I'm 40 and have been on

Synthroid for about 15 years. After being on a doseage of .125 for

many years my blood tests indicated (back in September) I needed to

be on a higher dose so I was bumped up to .150. Another blood test

the following January (this year) indicated the doseage needed to be

increased again to .175. I'm still at.150 since none of the doctors

can tell me why I'm increasing doseages at such a rapid rate. By the

way the reason I went to 4 doctors since September is due to major

fatigue in addition to: always warm tho I have a low temperature,

shedding hair, scary heart palpitations, feeling I wouldn't be able

to handle a crisis-have to reserves, no sex drive, heavy heavy

menstrual flow (can you say vinyl underwear) sores on scalp, cannot

sleep/insomnia, in the a.m. I CANNOT get out of bed - SO tired all

the time but by the time it's time to go to be I'm wired, major brain

fog, completely unmotivated/apathy, very irritable, temporary head

pounding and pressure like after a strenuous workout without the

workout.

I don't think Synthroid is working for me anymore and I want to try

Armour. The doctor I am seeing Mondy is listed on the Armour website

(yay) - maybe I'll finally get someone to listen to me. Aside from

the Armour what else do I need to bring up? What questions to ask,

what tests should be done?

Sorry so long - Thanx so much

[Guest guest]

what is your diagnosis? Why have you needed the synthroid? What are your last

blood tests with ranges and results?

New / preparing for Dr appt on Monday

Hi

My name is Zera and I hope you can help me. I'm 40 and have been on

Synthroid for about 15 years. After being on a doseage of .125 for

many years my blood tests indicated (back in September) I needed to

be on a higher dose so I was bumped up to .150. Another blood test

the following January (this year) indicated the doseage needed to be

increased again to .175. I'm still at.150 since none of the doctors

can tell me why I'm increasing doseages at such a rapid rate. By the

way the reason I went to 4 doctors since September is due to major

fatigue in addition to: always warm tho I have a low temperature,

shedding hair, scary heart palpitations, feeling I wouldn't be able

to handle a crisis-have to reserves, no sex drive, heavy heavy

menstrual flow (can you say vinyl underwear) sores on scalp, cannot

sleep/insomnia, in the a.m. I CANNOT get out of bed - SO tired all

the time but by the time it's time to go to be I'm wired, major brain

fog, completely unmotivated/apathy, very irritable, temporary head

pounding and pressure like after a strenuous workout without the

workout.

I don't think Synthroid is working for me anymore and I want to try

Armour. The doctor I am seeing Mondy is listed on the Armour website

(yay) - maybe I'll finally get someone to listen to me. Aside from

the Armour what else do I need to bring up? What questions to ask,

what tests should be done?

Sorry so long - Thanx so much

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/19/2004 11:23:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,

zeraslair@... writes:

> Does this further indicate the need for Armour or something else?

>

YES

cindi

[Guest guest]

Hi Jamy

According to my bloodtests I'm hypoth so synthroid was Rx'ed. Just

posted the results of the last blood tests.

Thanx

> what is your diagnosis? Why have you needed the synthroid? What

are your last blood tests with ranges and results?

> New / preparing for Dr appt on

Monday

****************************

> Hi

>

> My name is Zera and I hope you can help me. I'm 40 and have

been on Synthroid for about 15 years. After being on a doseage

of .125 for many years my blood tests indicated (back in September)

I needed to be on a higher dose so I was bumped up to .150. Another

blood test bthe following January (this year) indicated the doseage

needed to be increased again to .175. I'm still at.150 since none of

the doctors can tell me why I'm increasing doseages at such a rapid

rate. By the way the reason I went to 4 doctors since September is

due to major fatigue in addition to: always warm tho I have a low

temperature, shedding hair, scary heart palpitations, feeling I

wouldn't be able to handle a crisis-have to reserves, no sex drive,

heavy heavy menstrual flow (can you say vinyl underwear) sores on

scalp, cannot sleep/insomnia, in the a.m. I CANNOT get out of bed -

SO tired all the time but by the time it's time to go to be I'm

wired, major brain fog, completely unmotivated/apathy, very

irritable, temporary head pounding and pressure like after a

strenuous workout without the workout.

I don't think Synthroid is working for me anymore and I want to try

Armour. The doctor I am seeing Mondy is listed on the Armour

website (yay) - maybe I'll finally get someone to listen to me.

Aside from the Armour what else do I need to bring up? What

questions to ask, what tests should be done?

Sorry so long - Thanx so much

[Guest guest]

Hi Zeraslair. I want you to be prepared for the fact that you don't

have a great doc. A great doc would test your free T3, not just your

free T4. T4 is a storage hormone!! T3 is the active hormone. To only

test what is in storage is inadequate....and typical of many poorly

trained docs. And to be putting you on Synthroid is backwards

treatment. Yes, you need Armour!! You can save yourself years of

problems by NOT getting on Synthroid or any other T4-only med. We

know. We've been there, done that. This is one area where you can

actually trust patients like us rather than docs!! They simply don't

know what they are doing.

Janie

I>

> Finally got results of my last blood test. I don't know what the

dx

> is but it says:

> TSH + Free T4

> TSH - RESULT-4.693 / Units-uIU/ml / referece interval-0.350-5.500

>

> T4, Free(Direct) - Result - 1.07 / units- ng/dl / reference

interval-

> 0.61-1.76

>

> Does this further indicate the need for Armour or something else?

>

> Thank you - my appt is early this afternoon so if you could

respond

> as soon as possible. THANX everyone !!!

> ********************************************

>

> -- In NaturalThyroidHormones , nc2406@a... wrote:

> > In a message dated 7/16/2004 10:13:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,

> > zeraslair@y... writes:

> >

> > > what tests should be done?

> > Get a Free T4 and Free T3 test...these tell actual hormone

> levels. T4 should

> > be in mid range and T3 in upper or slightly over...if you get to

> these

> > levels...i think your symptoms will have disappeared.

> > Cindi