Re: Re: Daughter's Labs

[Guest guest]

Long term low thyrodi alone will not cause high RT3. But some of those meds

may well be contributing. She needs a Ferritin test done though as low

ferritin goes wiht long term low thyroid and it WILL cause this problem as

well as stressing the adrenals with horrid symotoms as she tries to raise

thyroid. She very liely needs more cortiosl than she is tkaing. SHe should

graph her temps per www.drrind.com methids and thta will tell if the cortils

is enough ot support her adrenals. Saliva or blood testing for cortisol is

NOT accurate while takign HC and I have seen alot of them. Very

unpredictable due to the cortils feedback loop and the speed at which it is

metabolised which is differnt for everyone,I have seen doctors before that

tried using that method ot adjust coritls really mess people up thinking

they knew what they were doing wiht it.

Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/

[Guest guest]

largo_di wrote:

> Her ferritin is 39, actually a little better than several months ago.

> Here are her other iron numbers:

> Iron Bind. Cap (TIBC) 356 (250-450)

> VIBC 217 (150-375)

> Iron, Serium 139 (35-155)

> Iron Saturation 39 (15-55)

>

>

I wonder if I will ever truly understand iron metabolism and storage.

Here are my tests for comparison

ferritin 166

TIBC 338

UIBC 220

Iron, serum 118

saturation 35

same ranges for all

Her ferritin is low, mine is high. Her serum iron is higher than mine.

Her iron saturation is higher than mine, too. Our UIBC are closely

similar. Her iron binding capacity is higher than mine but given the

range they aren't all that far apart.

Can anyone figure out these differences and why one of us two has high

ferritin and the other low?

thanks,

sol