RE: Health regime - in progress

February 1, 2012

Hi Lynne

Haemoglobin can be absolutely normal even with a ferritin level

as low as 8. Ferritin is your level of stored iron. You need to take fairly

high doses of iron, e.g. 200mgs Ferrous Sulphate, or Ferrous Fumerate 3 times

daily when your ferritin level is so low and it is very important to keep

taking this until your levels have been raised. You should take this with high

doses of vitamin C 3.g. 3/4000mgs daily, split into three doses. I think the

40mgs Spatone should be OK so long as you also take that with vitamin C and you

stay on it. It will do you more harm to stop taking it than taking it daily.

Your thyroid function test results when on Nature Throid are OKish!

I would have expected your free T3 however, to have been much higher,

especially if you had taken your thyroid hormone on the morning you had your

blood drawn. Why on earth a laboratory would flag these up to tell your GP you

are taking too much and to lower your dose, I cannot imagine. Where do they

want your T3, on the floor?

You have certainly tried the different experiments and surely

proved it to these doctors that you function best on your natural thyroid

extract. If they are only interested in treating your thyroid function test

results and not you, then you are making the right decision to go ahead and use

the thyroid hormone that makes you feel best. However, you have a long way to

go.

I would increase the Nutri Adrenal every 10 to 14 days. Take one

with breakfast, the other with lunch. Do these increases of 1 tablet until you

feel your symptoms starting to get better. You can take up to 6 tablets daily

but you most people take between 2 to 4 tablets daily.

Don't do too much physical activity until you have got all your hormones

well balanced, you will only suffer if you do.

Don't be tempted to go back onto lower doses of thyroid hormone

- these are not for you.

If this was me, I would increase the vitamin D to 4000IU daily. Have

you had this tested recently.

I would stop the 'chewable' vitamin B12 and take 1000mcgs

sublingual B12 daily. Solgar do a good brand.

You need to be taking 200mcgs Selenium daily to help with the

conversion of T4 into T3 and if you have antibodies, this should help reduce

these too.

Don't stop any of the vitamin/mineral supplements in the run up

to having these tested. We need to know what their levels are now that you have

been supplementing.

Ask your GP for another FSH test to see especially, where your

oestrogen level lies in relation to progesterone and testosterone.

Hope this helps.

Luv - Sheila

I’m

thinking of asking my GP for another FSH test. (A few of weeks ago I felt so

awful I was thinking I would ask to try HRT.)

I occasionally measure

my waking temperature. Lately it seems to have been around 36.2 My

pulse right now - having been sat at my computer for well over an hour, writing

this - is 68.

Any further

help, should you have time, will be very much appreciated

February 2, 2012

Hi SheilaThank you very much for your reply. Hope it's OK if I copy it to a word document and print it out - what with all the copyright issues...(!)I agree I have a long way to go from here.

I'll take heed of your suggestions, see what the GP has to offer next week, and get back to you with some blood test results, hopefully, in a week or two.Might be a problem with overlapping Iron and thyroid meds. I might take all the thyroid meds in one go in the morning for the short term. It would seem for the next few days, it'd be best to get on with upping the iron.

Many thanksLynneOn Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Sheila <sheila@...> wrote: