Val, new tests results, help Please......

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Wow!! I,ve been off line for 5 days because of no power,thanks to ice

storm, and have 93 emails most of them from this group. Anyway...

Here are tests results 12-7-07. Taken after 12 hour fast.

TSH <0.004 0.350 - 5.500

T4,Free (direct) 1.39 0.61 - 1.76

(T3?) Triiodothyronine,Free,Serum 4.9 2.3 - 4.2

Glucose, Serum 92 65-99

Sodium, serum 140 135 - 148

Potassium, serum 4.0 3.5 - 5.5

Ferritin, serum 73 10 - 291 (up from 51 after only taking a

half of a bottle of Geritol tonic!)

Happy to report Cholesterol and triglycerides are going down.

This test was drawn on Thurs. Sunday night, Mon. night, and Wed. night

I didn't take my bedtime dose of Thyroid, 1/2 grain. (Those first two

nights I thought I would take the test the next morning and it didn't

happen.) Was this enough of a change to mess with the results?

I have been having terrible heart pounding and high pulse, along with

insomnia. Decided to lower thyroid meds to see if it would help. For

the last 8 days I lowered my meds from 3 1/4 to 1 1/2 to 2 grains and

it seems to be helping some. Even at 3 1/4 grains I still had hypo

symptoms. Should I get RT3 tested?

I'm at 27.5 mg HC.

I feel like I'm not making much progress. Thanks for your help.

, costumelady

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>>I have been having terrible heart pounding and high pulse, along with

insomnia. Decided to lower thyroid meds to see if it would help. For

the last 8 days I lowered my meds from 3 1/4 to 1 1/2 to 2 grains and

it seems to be helping some. Even at 3 1/4 grains I still had hypo

symptoms. Should I get RT3 tested?

I'm at 27.5 mg HC.<<

Your labs are not showing a liklyhood of RT3 but it would nto hurt to check it.

The reason I say this is your T4 is not that high. but have you considered you

may now be on too much HC? Once you get closer to optimizing thyrod SOMETIMES

the adrenals start to kick in their own cortisol and it pushes what used to be a

good dose over to too high and can cause these same symptms of heart pounding

too fast and hypo symptoms as it suses up al the thyroid as fast as you take it.

Your labs do NOT show hyper thyroid so I would get the thyroid back up where it

was for thse tests and work on sloly lowering the HC and see if thta helps.

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Val,

I am curious...you say that when you are taking too much HC that our

bodies use up more thyroid hormone making us exhibit hypo

symptoms...how then do we know when we are low on thyroid or too high

on HC while we are increasing our dosage? I have been taking 2.25

grains of Armour for seven weeks (previously on 1.75) and slowly

increasing my IsoCort at the same time. I noticed that I felt good

about week 5 abd 6, but I am beginning to feel a little " low " again.

I don't have my labs yet, but will in a week. How do I know that I

am not just taking too much IsoCort if I still show a little low on

my thyroid hormones? (I have only been on IsoCort for six weeks.)

Debbie

>

> >>I have been having terrible heart pounding and high pulse, along

with

> insomnia. Decided to lower thyroid meds to see if it would help.

For

> the last 8 days I lowered my meds from 3 1/4 to 1 1/2 to 2 grains

and

> it seems to be helping some. Even at 3 1/4 grains I still had

hypo

> symptoms. Should I get RT3 tested?

>

> I'm at 27.5 mg HC.<<

>

> Your labs are not showing a liklyhood of RT3 but it would nto hurt

to check it. The reason I say this is your T4 is not that high. but

have you considered you may now be on too much HC? Once you get

closer to optimizing thyrod SOMETIMES the adrenals start to kick in

their own cortisol and it pushes what used to be a good dose over to

too high and can cause these same symptms of heart pounding too fast

and hypo symptoms as it suses up al the thyroid as fast as you take

it. Your labs do NOT show hyper thyroid so I would get the thyroid

back up where it was for thse tests and work on sloly lowering the HC

and see if thta helps.

>

> --

> Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV

>

> http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/

>

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I do nto believe Isocort contains enough cortiso to actually use upo

thyroid. I am talling abotu doses in excess of 20MG daily.

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Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/