Re: I feel I've been increasing T3 too slowly now :(

[Guest guest]

I don't think that your levels are dangerously low, even if you did take the T3 before the last blood draw. I think it DOES prove that you are terribly hypo.

From: Gibcast

Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:16 PM

To: rt3_t3

Subject: I feel I've been increasing T3 too slowly now

FT3 5.6 (range: 3.5 - 7.0)FT4 7.7TSH 0.71

These are my last labs from about 10 days ago. Now, look at my FT3. It was only at 5.6 _even if_ I had taken my 10 mcg's of T3 about 1 hour before I took that test. Shouldn't FT3 be higher then?

Doesn't this mean my REAL FT3 was WAY too low? Like.. Dangerously low, if we remove the 10 mcg T3 I took before the blood drawing?

I am scared like crazy now. I am so sleepy, and I feel my heart wants to stop beating. Maybe I should add 5 mcg T3 today and keep upping faster in the coming days?

Also, my stomach problems can give me bad absorption I guess. :\ Maybe that's why I felt so awake this morning but sleepy the rest of the day? I did 5 mcg sublingually at 2 am. The effect of those 5 mcg SUBLINGUALLY could've lasted a while! Comparted to swallowing T3 the rest of the day?

I am calling my lab now to try to make them analyze my FT3 which I drew today! To get my REAL FT3, cause I didn't take T3-meds before this test today!

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>These are my last labs from about 10 days ago. Now, look at my FT3. It was only

at 5.6 _even if_ I had taken my 10 mcg's of T3 about 1 hour before I took that

test. Shouldn't FT3 be higher then?

If you reread when I replied to you posting them originally I am sure

I will have said Hypo, you need a raise.

You then delayed raising again.

>Doesn't this mean my REAL FT3 was WAY too low? Like.. Dangerously low, if we

remove the 10 mcg T3 I took before the blood drawing?

Not dangerously no, just hypo. you were not below bottom of range, you

would need to be well under range before it was dangerous rather than

unpleasant.

Being hypo for less than a lot of years is not a life threatening

condition, Drs might take it more seriously if it was.

Nick

[Guest guest]

I see.But can't hidden WPW be dangerous when taking T3 meds? I sure feel like T3 meds is causing this now.My heart TICKLES. What is that feeling?Still awaiting FT3 result.

>These are my last labs from about 10 days ago. Now, look at my FT3. It was only at 5.6 _even if_ I had taken my 10 mcg's of T3 about 1 hour before I took that test. Shouldn't FT3 be higher then?

If you reread when I replied to you posting them originally I am sure

I will have said Hypo, you need a raise.

You then delayed raising again.

>Doesn't this mean my REAL FT3 was WAY too low? Like.. Dangerously low, if we remove the 10 mcg T3 I took before the blood drawing?

Not dangerously no, just hypo. you were not below bottom of range, you

would need to be well under range before it was dangerous rather than

unpleasant.

Being hypo for less than a lot of years is not a life threatening

condition, Drs might take it more seriously if it was.

Nick

[Guest guest]

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>But can't hidden WPW be dangerous

Have you a diagnosis of that???

Nick

[Guest guest]

No but my GP thinks there is a possibility that I can have this very rare version of WPW. The truly hidden one, which can only be diagnosed WHEN an attack happens. Remember, I got that fibrillation once. Lasted for 20 minutes. ECG was not done, cause I refused (!) to get an ambulance. Don't ask my why I reacted that way when I was sure I was dying.Just got back from the ER. I _still_ have the super-tingly feeling in my chest/heart. It is scaring the crap out of me. They said I had slightly irregular heartbeat on the ECG, but they also said it was within the "normal".I am connecting this feeling directly with the feeling I had 2 years ago. And I don't like it. Nobody knows what to do about this, it seems.This feeling can't (can it?) be low T3 in the cells, cause I had T4-only treatment SINCE February

2008. And no feeling like This since then, until now. It just baffles me.

>

>But can't hidden WPW be dangerous

Have you a diagnosis of that???

Nick

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