Re: Newbie could use some help

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Tg and TgAb Which tests are these?

Sandy

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slkscb@... ~ Open RNY 12/8/03, 150 cm, Barix Clinics, 303/290 day of surgery/195 current/ goal is to be HEALTHY. Emergency appendectomy 11/1/04, Gallbladder 1/12/05. "Know your labs and track your trends." AZ Grads join us at: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AZGRADSOFWLS/

Check out my gastric bypass journal at www.acdlady.com/WLS_1 for many educational links. My OH profile is at http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/profile.phtml?N=M1062876220 I am not affiliated with the medical profession except as a proactive WLS post-op. "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s." – Wilder

-- Re: Newbie could use some help

You will be told here, newbie , that hypothyroid is not a diagnosis, it's a symptom of something wrong with a thyroid. You want to find out what is making your thyroid hypo. Inflammed thyroid - then you have Hashimoto's or Graves ? Something everyone is told on these support group lists - get copies of every test and procedure done on you, blood work too. Do you know what your thyroid related numbers are in your blood work ? Are you getting FreeT's checked ? Tg and TgAb ? Do you know what the target is for you TSH? You'll get tons of info from others, this is just a start.jane

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>

> You will be told here, newbie , that hypothyroid is not a

> diagnosis, it's a symptom of something wrong with a thyroid. You

> want to find out what is making your thyroid hypo.

>

> Inflammed thyroid - then you have Hashimoto's or Graves ?

>

> Something everyone is told on these support group lists - get

copies

> of every test and procedure done on you, blood work too.

>

> Do you know what your thyroid related numbers are in your blood

> work ? Are you getting FreeT's checked ? Tg and TgAb ? Do you

> know what the target is for you TSH?

>

> You'll get tons of info from others, this is just a start.

>

> jane

>

>

I am going to second this..plus what dose are you on? Other meds and

supplements? How long have you been on medication and labs, labs,

labs..

Kats3boys

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Thyroid tissure puts out a signal found in a blood test, called Tg.

If all the thyroid has been removed and killed off by rai,

supposedly there is no thyroid to put out the tg signal. So, after

a reading post rai, tg should be lower than the lab can detect.

From then on, if it shows up, we know its' cancer that's come back

and a hunting we go to find where it is. Thyroid cancer puts out

the same signal as the thyroid - tg. Even if it's in the bones or

lungs, it still puts out the tg and is treated by surgery is

possible or needed, and rai again.

TgAb tests the antibody level connected to the thyroid. Antibody

level means different things, depending on what your disease is.

jane

>

> Tg and TgAb Which tests are these?

>

> Sandy

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> slkscb@m... ~ Open RNY 12/8/03, 150 cm, Barix Clinics, 303/290 day

of

> surgery/195 current/ goal is to be HEALTHY. Emergency

appendectomy 11/1/04,

> Gallbladder 1/12/05. " Know your labs and track your trends. " AZ

Grads join

> us at: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AZGRADSOFWLS/

>

> Check out my gastric bypass journal at www.acdlady.com/WLS_1 for

many

> educational links. My OH profile is at http://www.obesityhelp

> com/morbidobesity/profile.phtml?N=M1062876220 I am not affiliated

with the

> medical profession except as a proactive WLS post-op. " Trust your

own

> instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of

someone

> else's. " – Wilder

> -- Re: Newbie could use some help

>

> You will be told here, newbie , that hypothyroid is not a

> diagnosis, it's a symptom of something wrong with a thyroid. You

> want to find out what is making your thyroid hypo.

>

> Inflammed thyroid - then you have Hashimoto's or Graves ?

>

> Something everyone is told on these support group lists - get

copies

> of every test and procedure done on you, blood work too.

>

> Do you know what your thyroid related numbers are in your blood

> work ? Are you getting FreeT's checked ? Tg and TgAb ? Do you

> know what the target is for you TSH?

>

> You'll get tons of info from others, this is just a start.

>

> jane

>

[Guest guest]

Thyroid tissure puts out a signal found in a blood test, called Tg.

If all the thyroid has been removed and killed off by rai,

supposedly there is no thyroid to put out the tg signal. So, after

a reading post rai, tg should be lower than the lab can detect.

From then on, if it shows up, we know its' cancer that's come back

and a hunting we go to find where it is. Thyroid cancer puts out

the same signal as the thyroid - tg. Even if it's in the bones or

lungs, it still puts out the tg and is treated by surgery is

possible or needed, and rai again.

TgAb tests the antibody level connected to the thyroid. Antibody

level means different things, depending on what your disease is.

jane

>

> Tg and TgAb Which tests are these?

>

> Sandy

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> slkscb@m... ~ Open RNY 12/8/03, 150 cm, Barix Clinics, 303/290 day

of

> surgery/195 current/ goal is to be HEALTHY. Emergency

appendectomy 11/1/04,

> Gallbladder 1/12/05. " Know your labs and track your trends. " AZ

Grads join

> us at: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AZGRADSOFWLS/

>

> Check out my gastric bypass journal at www.acdlady.com/WLS_1 for

many

> educational links. My OH profile is at http://www.obesityhelp

> com/morbidobesity/profile.phtml?N=M1062876220 I am not affiliated

with the

> medical profession except as a proactive WLS post-op. " Trust your

own

> instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of

someone

> else's. " – Wilder

> -- Re: Newbie could use some help

>

> You will be told here, newbie , that hypothyroid is not a

> diagnosis, it's a symptom of something wrong with a thyroid. You

> want to find out what is making your thyroid hypo.

>

> Inflammed thyroid - then you have Hashimoto's or Graves ?

>

> Something everyone is told on these support group lists - get

copies

> of every test and procedure done on you, blood work too.

>

> Do you know what your thyroid related numbers are in your blood

> work ? Are you getting FreeT's checked ? Tg and TgAb ? Do you

> know what the target is for you TSH?

>

> You'll get tons of info from others, this is just a start.

>

> jane

>