Re: Just need some help with old bloodtests results please!!

[Guest guest]

I don't see how your tests could look any better. If there was such

thing as perfect thyroid labs after treatment starts your labs would

be in the running for perfect. Good job!

How do you feel?

Chris

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> I got bloodtests done Oct. 26,2004. Getting it done again soon.

> Can anyone tell me where these results are in the range?

>

> ft3 3.6 range 2.3-4.2 pg/mL

> ft4 0.95 range 0.59-1.17

> TSH 0.04 range 0.34-4.82

>

> I am self-medicating with Armour now. I just couldn't understand

> where they are in the range. Are they in the upper 1/3, 1/2 etc.?

[Guest guest]

>>ft3 3.6 range 2.3-4.2 pg/mL

ft4 0.95 range 0.59-1.17

TSH 0.04 range 0.34-4.82<<

For myself I would love to see my labs looking like Free T3 4.2 or MORE; Free T4

1.0 and TSH I would not bother even looking at, I think 0.0 TSH is what I am

striving for as that would mean my body is no longer asking for more thyroid.

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[Guest guest]

What I don't get here is that the bottom wrung for the Free T4 at this lab

and testing method is a .5, but most I've seen have the bottom point at a

..8. I don't think that this type of testing is a different type of testing,

just a differing opinion on what should be the low point. Her Free T4 is

entirely too low by ANY standards, even for a partially mainstream doctor's

opinion. Since her Free T3 is barely above the midpoint, she can certainly

afford to raise her Armour, this leaving her Free T4 in the upper range and

the Free T3 either in the upper part or above the fantasy land normals

they've all come up with. The ranges on this lab for Free T4 are duds, IMO.

Almost all the people on these thyroid sites have repeatedly said that they

always felt better with their lab tests at the above mentioned levels. I

don't see how one or two thousand people could have immagined that they all

felt better at the very highest of ranges. However, to a bonified, dyed in

the woold, $ynthroid trained endocrinologist, these tests probably do look

perfect, which means she would have to be feeling very good, according to

them. She feels better than she did, but she's not quite " there " yet.

Re: Just need some help with old

bloodtests results please!!

>

>

> I don't see how your tests could look any better. If there was such

> thing as perfect thyroid labs after treatment starts your labs would

> be in the running for perfect. Good job!

>

> How do you feel?

>

> Chris

>

>

>

> >

> > I got bloodtests done Oct. 26,2004. Getting it done again soon.

> > Can anyone tell me where these results are in the range?

> >

> > ft3 3.6 range 2.3-4.2 pg/mL

> > ft4 0.95 range 0.59-1.17

> > TSH 0.04 range 0.34-4.82

> >

> > I am self-medicating with Armour now. I just couldn't understand

> > where they are in the range. Are they in the upper 1/3, 1/2 etc.?

[Guest guest]

Some struck fortune without lab testing, others, as you said, use lab

testing for either when they are still feeling bad, or when they're feeling

good and want to know where it is there in those ranges that they feel good

or bad. I personally think that, with a normal thyroid, those ranges change

constantly in the body, according to what's going on in the body. I don't

feel that well yet (but certainly a lot better than I did a yr ago), but I'm

really getting a kick out of my labs lately. Example---lower dose = higher

T4 and T3. Then the next is---higher dose = low rock bottom T4 and barely

midrange T3, so somebody tell me what goes on there? The problem is usually

antibodies, for one thing, second thing still not an optimal dose, so the T4

desperately converts to more T3. Then there's your case and those like you

who are so resistant to the thyroid hormones that, if you had tests done in

a doc's office, he'd probably pass out from looking at how high your thyroid

hormones probably are, though you feel really good on that whopping dose. I

look at my labs as sort of a side attraction because, frankly, I may have

been/may have been on my way to the resistance syndrome, with the high

antibodies, and that may be why my labs are very confusing right now.

Actually they may be less influenced now by antibodies (a guess), so it's

now showing just how deficient I actually was/am. I won't go without taking

the tests, but I do muse over them and take them with a grain of salt.

There are things about them that are interesting during different intervals

of time. I actually would like to know what my Reverse T3 is, to see how

much is being turned away, but I just haven't done that one yet. I will. I

know that I proably also need a thyroglobulin test. There is value in some

of these tests, but it depends on which tests we're talking about. A person

would want to know if they are resistant, up front, by feeling their worst

and testing at that time. The tests would probably look normal even to us,

but by that testing they would know that they're probably very resistant, so

they can make a better battle plan, as you did. The times when someone gets

a strong reaction from me to up their dosage is when those tests are showing

low to midrange, and that person is still feeling bad. Some are not as

fortunate as you were, to be able to up their thyroid hormone successfully,

without repercussions, because, after all, it's all trial and error, even in

a doctor's office.

Re: Re: Just need some help with old

bloodtests results please!!

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> I think some of us are putting WAY too much faith in lab testing. Thyroid

labs are horrible for being inaccurate! While we can use some of them to

help understand when we are not feeling good, if you feel good what does

THAT tell you? If you are not feeling good is when you need to adjust

dosages and look to labs for help.

> *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV