Re: Re: Desperately sticky situation and how to respond re T3 and multi-disciplinary mtg

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On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:09:27 -0000, you wrote:

>The other problem is that I had stopped my T3 for one week before my first

visit to my Endo and my TSH did not drop (they are not interested in where my

fT3 is). His superiors want to wean me off T3 to raise my TSH because they say

that it should be in the middle of the reference range and NOT suppressed! The

TSH would take months to get to where they want it and I just won't make it!

They have lost the plot, sounds like you need better trained Drs, were

they trained in diabetes with one day on thyroid by any chance??

You can think of TSH as the throttle on a car engine, it is what is

asking for the speed of the engine, not measuring the speed itself.

FT3 is more like the speed that the engine is doing, a more direct

representation of the engine performance.

For people with resistance (like us) the FT3 is not even that useful,

it represents the levels of T3 in the blood. What actually represents

your metabolism performance is your body temperature, that is the most

accessible marker for how yout cells are.

I have dropped my T3 intake to half recently, I am still adjusting and

about to edge up again but in my case it was iron that made a big

difference to how much I needed.

Nick