Guest guest Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Hi, My name is Rod and I've finally found out why I've been feeling so rough the last 2.5 years, it is due to RT3. I was diagnosed with Graves, and I had RAI about 4 years ago, and ended up with virtually no thyroid function. I was put on T4 meds (150 ug), but I starting feeling more and more tired. Finally diagnosed myself with adrenal issue and went on HC for 6 months. Started to feel great, but mistakenly let my doctor reduce my T4 ,med whilst I was weaning myself off the HC. Bad Mistake!!! I went hypo and low cortisol at the same time - didn't know what was going on and tried to hang on and hope things got better, then eventually increased my T4 again to 150ug but I was quite rough for maybe 6 weeks. Then realised I need to increase my HC as well, and panicked and I think I did too much ~40mg a a day plus loads of Vitc, B vits and Adrenal glandulars. I think I went for maybe 2 months on quite high adrenal support before bringing it down. Felt rough for the last 2.5 years and finally got my RT3 tested, results are TSH 0.46 (0.4 - 4.0) mIU/L FT4 17.1 (10 - 22) pmol/L FT3 4.12 (2.8 - 6.5) pmol/L RT3 0.67 (0.14 - 0.54) pmol/ml Ferritin = 157 (20 - 345) B12 to be tested I think my ratio is just over 6 - is this correct. Anyway, I'm waiting to get my T3 meds now, and I'd like to just say I'm relieved that I now know why I've felt so rough the last few years, and hope that I can clear this thing. I'm pretty sure that it was due to the episode of low adrenals + low thyroid then episode of high adrenals that caused all this, I was fine before that. Rod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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