I have a few questions for any body willing to help please. I had a total thyroidectomy in may of 2004. I take 200mg of levoxyl this was the original dose given after surgery and what im taking now.i really have days that i feel terrible almost cant walk , my toes, knees,ankels ,really almost all my muscels and joints ache and crack ( the cracking is really bad in my neck and down the center of my back, man that is annoying.) Anyway i have only seen the endo once since May and I have a appointment in Dec. I swore i was not on enough meds, so i called to gets some bloodwork done so me and the endo could have a heart to heart lol. these were the results,
t4 direct 1.07 ng/dl 0.61-1.76
tsh 1.15 uiu/ml 0.350-5.500
t3 111 ng/dl 85-205
and the docs comments are that im normal (yeah right ha ha) and no changes needed. am i wrong is my t3 too low to feel good ive read a lot of good things about amour, honestly i really dont know what to do i dont feel great and i have been dealing with this mess for over three years is this all the better i am going to feel? i could use some advice please , a little ammunition if you please. god bless and thank you
Hi...sorry I can't answer your question - I'm not good with labs numbers but there are others on here who are. I'll bump your message up so it doesn't get lost. Check back later today and hopefully someone will answer you
LucyPearl
I have a few questions for any body willing to help please. I had a total thyroidectomy in may of 2004. I take 200mg of levoxyl this was the original dose given after surgery and what im taking now.i really have days that i feel terrible almost cant walk , my toes, knees,ankels ,really almost all my muscels and joints ache and crack ( the cracking is really bad in my neck and down the center of my back, man that is annoying.) Anyway i have only seen the endo once since May and I have a appointment in Dec. I swore i was not on enough meds, so i called to gets some bloodwork done so me and the endo could have a heart to heart lol. these were the results,
t4 direct 1.07 ng/dl 0.61-1.76
tsh 1.15 uiu/ml 0.350-5.500
t3 111 ng/dl 85-205
and the docs comments are that im normal (yeah right ha ha) and no changes needed. am i wrong is my t3 too low to feel good ive read a lot of good things about amour, honestly i really dont know what to do i dont feel great and i have been dealing with this mess for over three years is this all the better i am going to feel? i could use some advice please , a little ammunition if you please. god bless and thank you
I think you need more T4, and your T3 should rise accordingly, but I think some additional T3 wouldn't hurt, either. getting those both up to at least the middle of the lab range (T3 should be 150+ and T4 should be 1.2+) would be a good goal. Getting your doc to see this is another story, though.
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Danny
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From a paper written by Dr. Dommisse (perhaps you should look up this paper and consider buying a copy for your doc):
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In order to optimize the hormone replacement in an otherwise-healthy young or middle-aged patient, the FT3 and FT4 should be in the upper one-third or near the upper end of the laboratory normal reference range.
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Danny
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I thank you so much , i am really tired of not feeling good as im sure so many others are!My primary physican and my endo are both telling you could pilot a plane bt your tsh numbers that there is nothing wrong with me its in my head.Thanks to this board and others sharing i see otherwise but like you said Meep its hard to get them to listen so i start to belive it is in my head.
