Guest guest Posted April 20, 2010 Report Share Posted April 20, 2010 Hi Val, Last week we figured out that I have a RT3 problem as my ratio was 12.5 and yesterday I got my Cortisol test back. It shows me within normal range but were as follows: Morning: 7.9 range 3.7-9.5 ng/ml Noon 1.2 range 1.2-3.0 ng/ml evening .8 range .6-1.9 ng/ml Night .4 range .4-1.0 ng/ml Ferritin is 100 ng/ml although my neutrophils (l) and lymphocytes (h) were slightly off. I am currently on Iodoral. My last TSH (1/2010) was 13.2. I take 90 mg of ERFA (60 and then 30 at noon). I know I need more thyroid but with this RT3 problem I don't want to increase my dose at the moment. I feel the morning cortisol is probably okay but I take a big dive at noon and that would correlate with how I feel because late morning I often get tense or anxious and then around 2:00 I am tired. I am thinking I may need to take Cortef but I will wait until you open the adrenal site and present my question there. My question at the moment is do I start treating the RT3 before I have my adrenals functioning optimally or will treating RT3 cause my adrenals to function better? I know what you think of Iodoral but I feel it has helped me and my levels were low when I did the iodine loading test. However, I do wonder if I should quit taking it for awhile and deal with the other issues? So many questions and you have so little time but do you have any suggestions? Kris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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