Re: RT3 High? New here - thank you. Would appreciate help.

[Guest guest]

Nick, thank you so much. Your response was very helpful and educational. (Sorry

did not put ranges in for the cortisol.)

That worries me about the 15 mg Cortef possibly disturbing production but not

replacing enough. My doctor is adamant about not letting me go over 15 mg per

day because of it causing my adrenal glands to stop producing. Arrgghhhh!

So, before I should even consider T3 only, I should get my ferritin up, right?

In another message quite a while a go, I saw someone write to a member saying

that we need T3 to get our iron up. And we need ferritin raised to use T3. So

first, I should focus on getting my T3 up as you said, right?

I have also joined the adrenals group.

From your message, I am glad to know that perhaps if I can get my ferritin up,

and get my doctor to increase my dose of natural, maybe everything will fall

into place. If not, then I ask for T3 only treatment, right?

Would it be worth asking doctor to go directly to T3 treatment?

Thank you again.

>

> >Free T3: 3.5 PG/ML (range is 2.3 - 4.2)

>

> Lowish, that wants to be top of range or a little over on Natural to

> feel best

>

> >TSH: 0.015 uIU/mL (range is 0.35 - 5.50)

>

> OK on natural

>

> >Free T4: 0.74 NG/DL (range is 0.89 - 1.76)

>

> Again says you are under medicated as you are on natural

>

> >Ferritin: 25 ng/mL (range is 10 - 191)

>

> OUCH, that needs to be 70 to 90 for you to be able to get the T3 into

> the cells

>

> >Reverse T3: 19 ng/dL (rangeis 11 32)

>

> 350/19 = 18.4 Ideally this wants to be over 20.

>

> I suspect that if you supplement iron heavily, 150 to 200 of elemental

> iron a day (the Blue Bonnet is reported to work well), take it in 2

> doses a day, take the erfa 1 hour before or 4 hours after.

>

> After a couple of months on the iron you can probably increase the

> Erfa and then the FT3 will come up to where it needs to be and the

> ratio improve because of that. If the RT3 comes up as well then you

> will have to go T3 only for a while but I doubt that will be necessary

>

> >Cortisol Saliva: 8 am 5.0 ng/ml

> > 12 noon 2.5 ng/ml

> > 6 pm 2.8 ng/ml

> > 11 pm 1.5 ng/ml

> > TOTAL Cortisol for Day: 11.8 ng/ml

> >

> No ranges given but based on typical ranges that looks low.

>

> It might be an idea to post those together with ranges on the adrenal

> group

>

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

>

> Their FAQ Web site is here http://faqhelp.webs.com/

>

> 15 of cortef may cause more trouble than it helps by disturbing

> production without replacing enough, the adrenal group will help there

>

> Good luck

>

> Nick

>

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> for more information on RT3 and Thyroid Resistance go to

>

> www.thyroid-rt3.com

>

[Guest guest]

>

>I have also joined the adrenals group.

Good plan

>

>From your message, I am glad to know that perhaps if I can get my ferritin up,

and get my doctor to increase my dose of natural, maybe everything will fall

into place. If not, then I ask for T3 only treatment, right?

>

>Would it be worth asking doctor to go directly to T3 treatment?

If your Dr will support it then yes, that's the most predictable

answer

Nick

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for more information on RT3 and Thyroid Resistance go to

www.thyroid-rt3.com

[Guest guest]

>

>I have also joined the adrenals group.

Good plan

>

>From your message, I am glad to know that perhaps if I can get my ferritin up,

and get my doctor to increase my dose of natural, maybe everything will fall

into place. If not, then I ask for T3 only treatment, right?

>

>Would it be worth asking doctor to go directly to T3 treatment?

If your Dr will support it then yes, that's the most predictable

answer

Nick

--

for more information on RT3 and Thyroid Resistance go to

www.thyroid-rt3.com

[Guest guest]

>

>I have also joined the adrenals group.

Good plan

>

>From your message, I am glad to know that perhaps if I can get my ferritin up,

and get my doctor to increase my dose of natural, maybe everything will fall

into place. If not, then I ask for T3 only treatment, right?

>

>Would it be worth asking doctor to go directly to T3 treatment?

If your Dr will support it then yes, that's the most predictable

answer

Nick

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for more information on RT3 and Thyroid Resistance go to

www.thyroid-rt3.com