Weight Gain and Swelling-Lab Results

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Well, I received my lab results from the blood draw yesterday. I found that it

is so much faster to get my labs now that I put my fax number as an additional

cc: on the form!! The lab screwed up on the Free T3 though and did a T3 Uptake

instead, but they did get the Free T4 in there. The results are:

Free T4 .52 (0.61 - 1.76)

TSH <0.004 (0.350 - 5.500)

T3 Uptake 26 (24 - 39)

_____________________________________________________________________I agree

with Terry about cutting back very slowly. Your body has to adjust.

I really messed myself up trying to cut back when I thought I was hypo but I

really wasn't. My doctor also screwed me up by cutting my dose

significantly - from 20 to 10, then from 10 to 5. I had to go back up to 10

for the past 10 weeks, but have started this week alternating between 7.5

one day and 10 the next, because I think I'm going a little hypo. I think

cutting your dose in half is just too much. I cut back 2.5 mg at a time AT

THE MOST despite what my doctor tells me to do, and it's worked out 1000

times better for me.

Holly

Re: Weight Gain and Swelling

>

> As of my last appointment, my doctor wanted me to cut back to 35 mg of Tap

> when I was on 40 mg before. I had already cut back to 30 mg at that

point.

> Based on how I have been feeling and my euthyroid state as of my last test

> results, I've cut back to 10 mg a day, but have only been there for a day.

I

> cut back to 20 mg prior to coming down to the 10 mg. We'll see where my

> results say I am.

>

> Thanks for the support!

>

>

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Willis wrote:

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> The lab screwed up on the Free T3 though and did a T3 Uptake instead

Hmm last time they screwed up on mind they did some renal test,

the results were fine apaprently, so that was close in

comparison

> Free T4 .52 (0.61 - 1.76)

Hmmm not good - I'd probably be asleep in bed if it were me. I'm

losing the thread here, didn't you say you thought you were

going hypo?

> TSH <0.004 (0.350 - 5.500)

I've given up caring about my TSH, as it doesn't resemble

anything useful.

Although <0.004 look unusually sensitive, either they have good

tests or an extra zero crept in.

> T3 Uptake 26 (24 - 39)

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Simon Waters wrote:

Willis wrote:

>

> The lab screwed up on the Free T3 though and did a T3 Uptake instead

Hmm last time they screwed up on mind they did some renal test,

the results were fine apaprently, so that was close in

comparison

> Free T4 .52 (0.61 - 1.76)

Hmmm not good - I'd probably be asleep in bed if it were me. I'm

losing the thread here, didn't you say you thought you were

going hypo?

****Yes I did say I thought I was going hypo. Funny how you learn to feel the

changes in your body, isn't it. I'm not too tired. I cannot get up in the

morning to go to gym like I was able to just a few weeks back though.****

> TSH <0.004 (0.350 - 5.500)

I've given up caring about my TSH, as it doesn't resemble

anything useful.

Although <0.004 look unusually sensitive, either they have good

tests or an extra zero crept in.

****My TSH has been that same number for the last 3 testings. I know not to pay

too much attention to it since it can lag so far behind the T4.****

> T3 Uptake 26 (24 - 39)

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