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Hi Ellen,

welcome aboard. It sounds like you're taking ATD's & thyroid

which is just catching on here. we call it " block

and replace. " From what I've read, the remission rate is

as high as 70%. I'm not sure what units of measurement

you use for the lab tests so I hate to confuse you.

you'll have to ask for the normal range when you

get your results. For now they'll probably just check

your TSH. The reference rate in the U.S. runs about

0.4-2.0.

I'm glad the muscle pains went away. Could have been

a temporary condition from the meds.

, can you tell me exactly what you're eating

just examples, so I can try this. I assume you're eating

all whole foods. cooked? I've been looking at

the agriculturist diet on stoll's page as a way

of resting my GI tract and preventing allergy.

, I sent a post to the other board asking Jack

to log onto stoll's board so i could give hime eye and

ocreotide info. i didn't even list the URL and it got

pulled. I think Jake is reading this .

All, I was concerned with Arem's (in The Thyroid Solution)

contention that T3 needed to be taken seperately for

the brain to absorb it. All the books I've read say that

T3 is made FRESH from T4 in the brain. Also there are 2 types

of T3, and the brain, pituitary and brown adipose tissue

make one kind and the liver, etc.make another.

So I wrote Dr. DeGroot from the U. of Chic,author

of the online Thyroid Manager, and he confirmed this.

T3 in the circulation from our meds does not go

to the brain. T4, however, does. I'm sure T3 from the

blood hits the nervous system, and maybe that's why

some of us have noticed a difference.