Reasons for low TSH, free T4 and free T3 - was Moan about doctor

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Miriam - check out the possible reasons below for a suppressed

TSH… low free T4 and low free T3: Has your doctor not considered you may

have a pituitary problem or that you may have a congenital TSH deficiency? Type

in 'hypopituitarism' into Google and see whether your symptoms and signs relate

in any way to that. It is NOT just taking some form of T3 that will suppress

your TSH - if only it was that simple. See http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Hypopituitarism.htm

Also, I have posted this to the main thyroid forum as this topic

is about thyroid disease. The Chat forum is to chat about any thing other than

thyroid.

Luv - Sheila

http://www.bioscilibrary.com/resource/summerschool/2006/ss06/ss06_gur.htm

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Subject: [thyroid treatment_Chat] Moan about doctor

I saw a private doctor yesterday because that

is where I had to go to get my thyroid test done recently and she wanted to

" interpret my results " for me.

(My TSH is 2.32, Free T4 6.1 (12-22), and Free T3 2.5 (3.1-6.8))

She said she had never seen a blood test before where the TSH was in the normal

range, but the Free T3 and Free T4 were below the normal ranges. So then we had

our first argument because I told her some friends of mine had similar results

(someone else in our Bristol group, for example). She said, " You mean

their Free T3 and Free T4 are towards the bottom of the normal range " . And

I said, " No, they were quite a bit below the normal range, like

mine. " However, she just wouldn't accept it was possible, even though my

results were there in front of her.

So then she was convinced I must be taking some other pharmaceutical drug which

was skewing my results. She asked me if I was taking any other medication, and

I said I wasn't. However, she didn't seem to believe me because she then asked,

" Have you bought any other pharmaceutical medication? " I said,

" Why would I buy any and not take it? " Honestly, it was like being

grilled by the police, and I didn't like the way she disbelieved me.

All this is because she obviously doesn't know that taking T3-containing

medication such as Thyroid-s can suppress the TSH. Obviously, in my case, the

medication hasn't done much to raise the T3 and T4, but has still suppressed my

TSH a little.

I told her that taking thyroid medication made both my pulse and blood pressure

go up, which is why I couldn't increase it very much. She took my blood

pressure there and then and it was high.

She would like me to take some thyroxine " because my free T4 is low " .

However, if taking Thyroid-s makes my blood pressure go up, I don't think

switching to thyroxine is going to help.

Basically I think she is too entrenched in conventional views and treatments to

be very much help, but I would like to keep her onside so that I can get blood

tests done from time to time. It is certainly a great deal easier than trying

to get blood drawn at the local NHS surgery. Are there any other alternatives?

Miriam