Re: Rv: Re: new on forum../ferritin

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Many thanks for this. The lab range is 30 to 400..

All the best--- El mié, 3/17/10, Margery__W escribió:

De: Margery__W Asunto: Rv: Re: new on forum../ferritinA: RT3_T3 Fecha: miércoles, 17 de marzo de 2010, 11:23 am

Regarding your ferritin question: your ferritin is 60, but what range is your lab using? My lab uses a "normal" range of 10 - 291; in this range, a 60 is not horrible but it is lower than ideal for thyroid function. I am at 79 and trying to reach 100.If iron supplements are needed, I will quote Val:"for Iron Blue Bonnet Bisglycinate seems to be the best tolerated with 150-200mg a day needed to raise ferritin levels."From her posthttp://health. groups.yahoo. com/group/ RT3_T3/message/ 33134Hope this helps.> > >Hi there, and thanks for all your useful comments & info. > > Hello and welcome> >> >Apologies for being dumb - completely new to this rt3-ft3 ratio, t3 only treatment etc - but have had some lab tests done for the first time and struggling to get the rt3-ft3 ratio. > > So assume that I am to put the decimal point where i think it should be - ie 4 divided by .23, which gives ratio of 17? > >> Yep. We look for a ratio of at least 20 so this is a little under but> not terrible.> > >Presuming ratio is 17, which looks close to normal would any one recommend t3 to take it up to 20 or would it be better just to leave things as they are? Have chronic fatigue (which came on

suddenly after acute viral illness 15 years ago) and odd hypo background (diagnosed hypo aged 17, only to be told aged 20 that I was ok). > > Personally I would say if you don't feel well then it's worth dropping> that T3 and ramping up slowly on T3 to see if you feel any better.> Most people that are hypo do better with some T3 at least added. With> a TSH of 2.6 you are NOT normal, people that have normal thyroid> function have a TSH of 1 or under. From those labs there is something> funny going on and we need more things to know what it is. For a> starter some adrenal and ferritin tests.> > >For info, have been taking 25mcg of synthroid for one year (as last year got pretty desperate to try something to alleviate exhaustion) but this was not prescribed by my doctor (he just took tsh and free t4 tests and they came back normal)> > It's not enough to do any good and

T4 is pretty useless for a lot of> people,> >> >I suspect my tiredness is probably due to some other cause as these results seem ok to me but if any one has any comments would be gratefully received. > >> Ferritin and cortisol are the first steps.> > The "quick and dirty" cortisol test is a temperature check, the method> is to take it at specific times each day, average the temperature for> that day, and then compare these averages from day to day.> > If they are within 0.2F from day to day cortisol is probably OK. If> it's not then a "4 sample saliva test" is the gold standard to find> out how bad.> > Ferritin is a blood test the Drs can run. For thyroid health it needs> to be between 70 and 90 and I think yours may well be low,> > This page has info on both tests as well as dosing and ramping up T3.> > http://thyroid- rt3.com/dosing. htm> > My gut feeling is your body temperature will be around 96 F and> fluctuating by a whole degree F from hour to hour!> > Let us know if I am right.> > My gut feeling is that if you get ferritin and cortisol in place and> ramp up on T3 you may well feel a LOT better.> > Nick> > -- > > for more information on RT3 and Thyroid Resistance go to > > www.thyroid- rt3.com> > > > > ¡Obtén la mejor experiencia en la web!> Descarga gratis el nuevo Internet Explorer 8> http://downloads. yahoo.com/ ieak8/?l= e1> > > > > > > > > ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________

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