SHMILY
06-05-2006, 05:32 PM
If you are on meds and cannot get your hormone levels in the upper 1/3 of range without it suppressing your tsh to .00 , are you "overmedicated" or hyper?
On one hand some say to pay no attention to tsh if you are on meds....just get your "frees" in the mid to upper range. I tend to agree here but, now some are saying they have Graves with TSI antibodies with hormone levels in the lower 1/2 of range and low to normal TSH. This is hard to understand.
When I first started having my problems was when my doctor cut my meds way back because my "frees" were in the upper 1/3 of range and tsh was .4. I felt really good before he did this to me and then a few mo. later I needed a wheelchair!!
My thyroid doc looks back at these labs when I was feeling good and tells me I was always overmedicated. How can that be when my "frees" WERE NOT OVER THE RANGE.
Now I can't get them back up without feeling hyper. Is the hyper feeling from just being so undermedicated now or what. This is very confusing.
On one hand some say to pay no attention to tsh if you are on meds....just get your "frees" in the mid to upper range. I tend to agree here but, now some are saying they have Graves with TSI antibodies with hormone levels in the lower 1/2 of range and low to normal TSH. This is hard to understand.
When I first started having my problems was when my doctor cut my meds way back because my "frees" were in the upper 1/3 of range and tsh was .4. I felt really good before he did this to me and then a few mo. later I needed a wheelchair!!
My thyroid doc looks back at these labs when I was feeling good and tells me I was always overmedicated. How can that be when my "frees" WERE NOT OVER THE RANGE.
Now I can't get them back up without feeling hyper. Is the hyper feeling from just being so undermedicated now or what. This is very confusing.