McMillan

[Patrick1]

Thank you so much for responding to all who responded. I am a 44 yr old female by the way. I always use my sons name on everything. My tests done on 1/27/10 showed TSH 3rd generation 4.90. t4free o.9 t3free 306 thyroglobulin<20 thyroid peroxide 454 gliadiniga 7. This was a day after I stopped taking synthroid because of my reaction. I was on the synthroid for 1 1/2 weeks prior. My last test just shows TSH and that is at 9.69. That was done my a neurologist because in the midst of all this I had an MRI because I am feeling weird in my head like humming in my ears which I feel is related to this and docs disagree but my MRI shows white matter and possible lesions done without contrast. I have never had any scans of my thyroid though. Yesterday I went to an endocrinologist who told me to take synthroid or I could go into a coma!! That was enough to scare me into taking synthroid this morning. He made the dose smaller so it went from.05 to .025. I have to say though I cut it in half and figured I would start out slow and increase after a week. Today I made an appointment to go to mayo clinic in March.

[McMillanNelson]

Hi Patrick1, Okay I get it !  Your son’s name is Patrick, and you use his name for everything meaning your screen name “patrick1”  !

Okay back to your question, You mentioned in your other post “my antibodies peroxide was 454”   that is a pretty big number and you said “peroxide”  There is a test for peroxide, but that is not common, so I am thinking you meant the antibodies test “TPOAb”  “THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODIES” ...just wanted to be clear? ( just reread your other post I guess we are on the same page and it is TPOab)

Did you have any other blood tests done like TgAb, TRAb or TSI etc?  If possible can you post your lab numbers and the reference ranges in your journal or some place that we can get a better look at your whole picture?  Some labs use out dated reference ranges so it is important to post that along with your actual numbers.

It sounds like you have a complex situation there. It seems odd to me, with thyroid issues unclear,  that if they were going to do an MRI they would have wanted to do an ultrasound of your thyroid to see if you have any nodules present.  I think if I were your shoes I would request an Ultrasound of your thyroid. (that was what I did and they found Multiple Toxic nodules which changed my whole diagnosis)

I don’t know enough about your MRI to comment on it.

What other medications are you on?

As for the Synthroid, I know that many people do not do well on the synthroyd, or Levothyroxine those are a synthetic form of the natural thyroid hormone thyroxine, which is a synthetic thyroid replacement for T4, others do just fine on it but if you are having problems with it, you might want to ask your doctor for Armour which is made of natural, desiccated pig thyroid and is not synthetic, I am no expert on this, and have never taken either of these drugs, so I am sure others can give better advice on those, but I know many people feel better on Armor.

Hope that helps some.

McMillan

[McMillanNelson]

Hi Patrick1, I think people are confusing me with your son.  Stella I did respond to a post of Patrick1's in another thread, perhaps Patrick1 was continuing the conversation here and put McMillan as the subject?

Or it could be that Patrick1's son is McMillan also and Stella was actually talking about your son.

Is a little confusing, Thank you to LazyMoose who pointed this out to me!

I will go back and read that post form yesterday to remember where we were at.  synthroid  or coma ? humm  I will get back you about this post in a few min.

McMillan

[stella5349]

He's a great asset here - thanks for posting this