Re: looking for advice...

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Your estrogen was done with a " prepubertal " range?? How weird!! You should

have had it done on a woman's base range. Are you sure that wasn't

" premenopausal " instead? Anyway, that is very low compared to you taking

all this progesterone, can't believe it. Also, has this doc mentioned

readjusting the testosterone or anything like that? Don't know about that

one, but it's very obvious that your Free T4 is literally in the garbage

can, holy cow! This makes it hard for me to understand why your Free T3

would be as high as it is, unLESS some of those nodules are independently

producing more T3 of their very own. Have that aspect investigated further.

Has she mentioned a thyroidectomy or a needle puncture at all?

looking for advice...

> hi all,

>

> i don't post often, but i read the posts most every day. i have some

> lab numbers i would like you all to look over. to start, here's a

> little bit about me [the short version which is actually long!]:

>

> all of this started about 1 1/2 years ago [actually back in the 90s i

> was diagnosed hypo and took synthroid for a while but decided the

> meds didn't make me feel any better so i just quit taking them [yell

> at me later...and do you know my PCP never even questioned why i

> wasn't asking for refills!]]. anyway, january 2007 i went to my PCP

> because my back kept locking up and i was always tired and couldn't

> think. turned out my TSH was 16.9. he put me on

> levothyroxine .100. i took that for a few months and my TSH came

> down but i started getting the shakes and heart palps. called and

> got my dose lowered to .88. still had the brain fog, anxiety,

> depression, and all that, so i started reading up on hypo. wow. i

> had no idea all this stuff was going to turn out to be related.

>

> next i get sent to an endo and had an ultrasound that shows numerous

> nodules of various sizes on my gioterized thyroid. while in the endo

> office i described all the symptoms i continued to have and asked if

> i could get switched to armour. boy, did i get THE speech...you know

> the one..it isn't regulated and you are going to get some other

> disease if you take it etc etc. i got a letter in the mail saying my

> TSH was good, come back in a year. since he was the chief endo of

> the health system i had been going to, i knew i wasn't going to find

> another dr there that would agree to prescribe it, so i searched high

> and low elsewhere. i live in houston, and i can't believe in a city

> this size NO ONE [that takes my insurance] is spoken of highly. or

> even lowly for that matter. basically whether or not they take my

> insurance. that is just so sad.

>

> ok. so after all my searching, i find a dr. she is actually in your

> database and has been bashed, but, it was one of those let me go see

> for myself kind of things. some people love her, some people hate

> her. for the most part, i like her ok and she seems to know a heck

> of a lot more than my PCP, and she takes my insurance. she started

> me on bio-id progesterone and testosterone and switched me to nature-

> throid. we slowly built up the nature-throid. i got to 2.5 grains

> and was feeling really great [compared]. lost a few pounds without

> even trying. then i had to have a few surgeries on something totally

> not related to my thyroid [two without being knocked out and one

> under general anesthesia], did multiple rounds of nasty [levaquin and

> flagyl] antibiotics and BAM, i was messed up again.

>

> my resting heart rate was getting up over 100 bpm. i've tried going

> off the nature-throid for 3 days and my heart rate will go down. but

> as soon as i build back up to 1 grain it starts pounding again.

> right now i'm taking 1/2 grain just so i can try and get by and my

> heart rate still gets up there. last time i was in to see her, she

> told me she really wanted me to take a grain and wanted me to do a

> stress test and ultrasound on my heart. my work schedule has been a

> bear since september of last year and has just finally slowed because

> the project is finished. next week i go in to see her and get my

> results. last time i was in for an appt, i spoke with her about

> possibly having adrenal problems, but the response i got was that if

> we could get my hormones in the right place the adrenals should

> correct themselves. yeah, red flag, i know, but she does seem to be

> willing to listen. i think if i can just go in there with

> some " sound advice " she will be willing to try adding something for

> adrenal support.

>

> sorry this is sooo long - here are the numbers from the last labs i

> did pre surgery:

>

> b-12 - 429 range 250 - 1100

> dhea sulfate - 224 range 35 - 430

> cortisal - a.m. specimen - 8 - range 7-25 [this was actually taken

> about 10:30 a.m.]

> ferritin - 100 - range 10-220

> iron binding capacity and iron and % saturation:

> iron, serum - 64 - range 35-145

> unsaturated IBC - 266 - range 155-300

> calculated total IBC - 330 - range 250-450

> calculated % iron sat - 19 - range 20-50

> estradiol - 14 - range prepubertal <20.0

> folic acid - 22.4 - range <5.0

> progesterone - 3.2 - range luteal phase 1.84-30.2 [don't know what

> luteal phase is!?]

> FT4 - .091 - range 0.73 - 1.95

> FT3 - 3.2 - range 2.3 - 4.2

> thyroid peroxidase ab - >1000 - range <35 [ok, now we know i'm a

> hashi - no other dr had even tested my antibodies]

> TRAB - 8 - range <10

> high sensitivity CRP - High - 11.3

>

> i am 45 and still have a monthly cycle. i'm taking 75 mg bio-id

> progesterone and 16 mg bio-id testosterone per day.

>

> hope all this makes sense. please let me know what you think.

> thanks,

> joan