RE: Reports from Dr. What does all this mean??

[Guest guest]

I'll answer some of this, but I'll leave the pathology stuff for

someone else who understands the gobblety gook better:

> Are total thyroidectomy and near total thyroidectomy the same

> thing?

Yeah - there is no such thing as a TOTAL thyroidectomy, though that's

what we call it. It's impossible to get everything out - thus part of

the reason for RAI. I think the technical medical term is near-total

> I just realized that I don't have a copy of the pathology

> report after surgery. Who would I get that from?

Whoever won't charge you for it :-). The hospital where I get work

done charges, but not to send it to my endo, so I get copies from my

endo.

> Can anyone think of anything else I should have copies of?

Basicly anything that there's a paper report on :-).

Cheers,

Alisa

Currently - 140mcg Levoxyl

2/15/2002: Nodule found 2/27/2002: FNA

3/4/2002: Hysterectomy/oopherectomy-possible ovarian cancer - BENIGN!!

4/9/2002: TT - Stage 2 pap 2.5 x 2 x 1.6 cm nodule, dx Hashimotos

5/28/2002: WBS (2 mCi) and 100 mCi RAI --- 6/6/2002: WBS - No mets

12/16/02: WBS (5 mCi): clean scan - no thyroid tissue in body!!!

Age: 49 -- Location: near Seattle WA --- Check out my posts:

Radioactive Girl - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Thyca/message/19472

My LID - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Thyca/message/15872

My RAI - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Thyca/message/15873

LID thoughts, tips, ideas -

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Thyca/message/25430

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I'll take a crack at your lab work......

FTI = Free Thyroxine Index. It is a calculation using the T4

(Thyroxine) and T uptake results. RAI interferes with the result. In

basic thyroid workup, the FTI is a physiologic index of metabolic

activity which generally correlates with free thyroxine.

You want a low TSH, preferably below 0.1. The relationship between T4

and TSH is when the TSH is low, the T4 is high. So you are good to go.

The T uptake does not measure T3 floating around in your blood stream.

It is an indirect measure of binding proteins and reflects available

binding sites. It is usually performed with the T4 so the FTI can be

calculated.

Hope this helps a bit.

Disclaimer - not a doctor but have clinical lab background

Alyn

Lake Worth, FL

Dx 3/00; Papillary

TT 5/00

RAI 7/00

clean scan 7/01: 150mcg Levoxyl

clean Thyrogen scan 8/02: 150mcg Levoxyl

Reports from Dr. What does all this mean??

......... About the only thing I have I do understand is the

bloodtest results

before the RAI. My TSH was 146.5 and my TG was 7.7 . Now for the check

up

blood results I'm a bit confused. I know what the TSH stands for, but

what

is FTI? I assume the T Uptake stands for Thyroid Uptake and Thyroxine

has

something to do with T4? All the numbers, except for the TSH seem to

increase each time. Is that normal? On all the blood work the

thyroxine has

always come back flagged, HIGH. Whatever the FTI is has come back

flagged as

high as well. What is T Uptake... if the thyroid has been removed, then

how

can it uptake something? My last set of lab results were the following:

Thyroxine 15.4, T Uptake 26.7, FTI 4.1, TSH 0.14. Geesh, what a mess?

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