I really don't know who to turn to get my issues stabilized, despite 2 years of efforts from my nice nutritional chiropractor, who has tried me on tons of supplements galore.
I have had the usual TSH, T3 and T4 tests done every 6 months for years, (and I had to really push to get those okayed by my internist, who always marked the results normal. A D.O put me on NT1 (like Armour) about 10 years ago, but based on those every 6 month repeat tests, she has pushed my dosage up or pushed the dosage down depending on the thyroid test results. It has gone up and down , over and over. Currently, I am seeing this nutritional chiropractor who finally had me tested with the "full" profile for the first time ever. Once was in Sept, 2010, and the second time, (after changing around all my supplements to help the HPA system and boost the liver assistance) was in Jan, 2011. The results showed him that his trials with supplements weren't helping me and he thinks that I need to go off NT1 and find a specialist in Atlanta who wil l put me on a compounded med.Meanwhile, I am still freezing cold all the time, have lost the outer third of my eyebrows, put on weight if I go over about 1000 cal, even with daily exercise, am fatigued, etc, ad nauseum Here are the results:
Sept, 2010: TSH = 0.8 Jan, 2011: TSH = 0.8 (ref range - 1.8-3.0 mlu/I
TT4 =4.0 TT4 = 4.0 (ref range- 6-12 ug/dl
TT3 = 78 TT3 = 62 (ref range - 76-181 ng/dl
Free T4 = 0.7 Free T4 =1.0 (ref range - 1.0 - 1.5 ng/dl
Free Thyroxine Free Thyroxine
Index =1.1 Index =1.0 (ref range - 1.2 - 4.9 mg/dl
Free T3 = 2.34 Free T3 = 1.90 ( ref range - 3.0 - 4.0 pg/ml
T3 Uptake = 28 T3 Uptake = 25 ((ref range - 25-30ng/dl
Thyroid Per Antibodies= under 10 (considered normal so not repeated in Jan)
Antithyroglobulin Antibody- under 20 (considered normal so not repeated in Jan)
The reference ranges that I provided were given lab ranges, as they are a more naturalistic, narrow range of optimal thyroid test ranges.
Good luck with deciphering all this info. It is still too, too confusing to me, even though I try hard to understand all that I can. Thank you very much.