Joan - Re: question on Blood test 6 - 8 weeks after RAI

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> Joan wrote:

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> > I know I have to have my blood tested prior to having my dose of

> > Synthroid fine tuned 6 - 8 weeks after RAI. What should my endo test

> > for at this time: Free T4 and TSH only? or should I also have my TG

> > and TG antibodies retested (these were tested prior to the RAI)?

Ellen Van Landingham wrote:

> All that's needed to adjust your Synthroid dose is T4 and TSH. But my

> endo tests TG every time I have blood drawn, just to be sure we don't

> miss any important changes.

Ellen's endo is very attentive.

My thinking is that for the first blood tests after the first ablation,

these numbers aren't very meaningful, since they are assumedly on their way

up (T3 & T4) and down (TSH & Tg).

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do more extensive testing at this time,

just that it's not a bad thing not to do it. I would have said that TSH

is really the only number needed at this time, but I bow to Ellen's

addition of T4.

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