Re: 24 hour blood pressure results and also blood results advice needed please

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my iron levels keep dropping now and then any ideas why? Ive

also added more salt to my diet to try and stop the dizzy spells and weakness

etc. does this all look ok? my endo wants me to lower my T3 but that only make

me feel worse and makes my blood pressure and temperature drop

BP mostly normal with the occasional real drop, but this is

expected in those people who are suffering with hypothyroidism and especially

if they have Hashimoto's disease as the cause. You should ask your GP to check

y our levels of iron, transferrin saturation%, ferritin, vitamin B12, vitamin

D3, magnesium, folate, copper and zinc and when you get the results, post them

here together with the reference range for each of the tests done. If any of

these are low in the range, these need to be supplemented because thyroid

hormone cannot be fully utilised at the cellular level, and you will continue

to have problems and symptoms until these have been raised. Check out the

attached document showing just some of the references to the research/studies

that have been done to show the association between low levels and

hypothyroidism.

cortisol: 263.3 (185-624 8am)

- This is quite low, but it is only a snapshot at that particular time of the

day. You need to get the 24 hour salivary adrenal profile done via Genova

Diagnostics which tests both cortisol and DHEA levels at 8.00a.m. - 12 Noon -

4.00p.m. and again at midnight. See our FILES SECTION, accessible form the Home

Page of this forum and click on FILES, and on the list that opens, scroll down

to 'Discounts on Tests and Supplements and open the 'Genova Diagnostics'

document and follow the instructions for ordering.

magnesium: 0.79 (0.6-1) - This is too low. I would

start taking 500mgs magnesiuim daily.

potassium: 3.7 (3.5-5) - This too is very, very

low. You need a potassium supplement. Ask your doctor to prescribe a potassium

supplement for you.

ferritin: 40.02 (10-120) - This is too low. However,

I rarely see a reference range of 10 to 120 - it is usually in the region of 20

to 200. You need to replace your stored iron with some form of elemental iron.

Again, talk to your GP

iron saturation: 15.5% (20-50) - Too low

vitamin b12: 304 (133-675). B12 should ALWAYS be

pretty near to the top of the reference range. Need B12 sublingual 1000mcgs

daily

folate: 13.67 (8.07-45.3) - Too low, need

400/800mcgs Folic Acid daily.

TSH: 0.001 (0.4-4.2) - It is expected that TSH will

be suppressed when taking any form of T3 - but try telling a doctor that!!!!

FT4: 0.0 (7.86-14.41) - Is this saying what I think

it is? You have NO free T4 whatsoever?

FT3: 4.82 (3.8-6) - I am assuming that this

result came about because you had not taken any T3 on the day you had your

blood drawn - if this is the case, then that is fine. Did your endocrinologist

tell you WHY he wants you to lower your T3.

I personally believe that you

need to concentrate on increasing your levels of the above nutrients and then

see how you feel. Also, check out the other attached document showing

associated conditions that go along with being hypothyroid by way of a process

of elimination to make sure none of these are the cause of your problem.

Luv - Sheila

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.. I had a 24hour blood pressure monitor put on and here are some of the

readings:

>

> 13:32 132/88 98 bpm

> 13:47 118/65 118 bpm

> 14:28 130/72 111 bpm

> 14:50 96/63 85 bpm

> 15:05 97/59 77 bpm

> 15:56 101/62 71 bpm

> 16:18 105/64 80 bpm

> 16:33 96/61 78 bpm

> 16:54 101/55 76 bpm

> 17:21 92/58 76 bpm

> 17:39 143/71 87 bpm

> 18:04 131/109 91 bpm

> 18:20 116/46 99 bpm

> 18:39 104/69 78 bpm

> 18:57 114/62 80 bpm

> 19:22 110/69 99 bpm

> 19:46 126/80 121 bpm

> 20:11 109/61 85 bpm

> 20:32 112/77 108 bpm

> 20:50 99/63 78 bpm

> 21:12 103/62 90 bpm

> 21:36 104/61 81 bpm

> 21:59 95/58 79 bpm

> 22:23 94/61 73 bpm

> 22:39 103/59 72 bpm

> 23:04 95/51 89 bpm

> 23:44 101/55 95 bpm

> 00:31 103/59 82 bpm

> 01:13 95/49 88 bpm

> 02:01 117/63 82 bpm

> 02:48 108/65 90 bpm

> 03:38 132/69 89 bpm

> 04:30 82/34 69 bpm

> 05:18 86/42 69 bpm

> 06:08 105/56 82 bpm

> 06:25 98/54 67 bpm

> 06:45 89/46 63 bpm

> 07:04 96/55 61 bpm

> 07:29 102/47 67 bpm

> 07:53 93/50 88 bpm

> 08:09 95/55 61 bpm

> 08:32 86/40 59 bpm

> 08:56 97/61 69 bpm

> 09:16 90/48 65 bpm

> 09:38 94/57 94 bpm

> 10:02 119/77 119 bpm

> 10:26 117/74 96 bpm

> 10:43 122/76 99 bpm

> 11:02 95/59 70 bpm

> 11:20 96/63 69 bpm

> 11:36 92/57 74 bpm

> 11:51 102/66 80 bpm

> 12:10 116/68 111 bpm

> 12:35 127/68 103 bpm

Hi, on reading through your results I noticed that the pulse seems to go up when

the blood pressure goes up. With my own results I find that when my blood

pressure is up the pulse rate goes down. I don't know if this is relevant, does

anybody know what is supposed to happen?

love Janet