Hollis/ Lilly -My Results

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Got bloodwork today. Because he had blood tests of only 1 month ago, the only thing he retested regarding thyroid was TSH. He had my free's, antibodies etc from March. He also did Cortisol , Sed. Rate and Metalbolic Panel.

TSH .691 (right about where its been running for a while now) lab norms .350 to 5.50

Westergren

Sed. Rate 6 lab norms 0 - 30

Cortisol 24 lab norms 3.1 to 16.7 This test marked HIGH by lab.

After reading the materials you so graciously gave me and much more at my library and on the net, I had alread decided - based on my low normal T3 results over the last 3 years that I would like to give Cytomel a try. He didn't want to prescribe - he wanted to refer me for fibro/chronic fatigue/lupus eval. I told him that since the sed. rate, in his own words, indicated that there was probably no serious autoimmune/inflammatory thing going on that I'd much rather try the T3 first and redo blood work in couple of months. He agreed and prescribed the Cytomel. Script is for 25 mcg a day, but after listening to both you and Lilly, i believe I will quarter these tabs and start out slow.

Thanks for so much info on the porcine version of thyroid meds. Perhaps if the Synthroid/Cytomel mix doesn't work for me I will look into it further.

Dusty