Eltroxin

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Hello

I'm new in RT3 group

After some reading I found that this is an amazing group of people that trying to help each other. Bravo

The story of my life…

Health condition

Before 25 years ago I had

Papillary Mix follicular Thyroid Cancer

My Thyroid gland had to be total removed

From that day I'm on Eltroxin 200mcg in a day feeling very good

9 years ago when I was doing my Thyroglobulin blood check, the result was high.

Then was decided to do I-131 whole body scan, the scan result found that was 6%

Iodine absorption because of thyroid tissue, then was decided to do the I-131 therapy

I stop the Eltroxin for 2 weeks first for the whole body scan, and comeback to take the medicine.

Second time after 6 month for the I-131 Iodine therapy

In the first stop of the Eltroxin after 2-3 weeks I had very hard side effects

Felt very tired and out of balance at all. The blood test shows high FT4

And Ft3 in the middle of Norma,TSH was around 0.30 – 0.50 mlU/l

So I feel like that for a very long time now almost 10 years

The side effect Expressed in Fatigue, when I'm turning my head left or right I feel knacks inside the head, in the right ear I don't hear very good only when I close my Nose and blow out air than it release the blockage and I can hear good but only for few seconds. There is no much energy and the motivation is also poor.

There was never attempted of trying another endocrine medicine except the Eltroxin

In all this years the blood test shows high values of FT4 above normal and FT3 was

Fixed on the middle. And TSH is suppressed.

Next week I'm going to do RT3 blood test, and also saliva test for cortisol

Some of my blood test from last may 2010

TSH – 0.03

FT4 – 20.5 pmol/l (10.3-19.7)

Prolactine – 45 mlU/l (45-375)

LH – Luteinizing Hormone – 5 lU/l (1-9)

FSH – 20.5 lU/l (1.4-18.1)

Estradiol E2 Low – 33 pmol/l

Testosterone total – 8.7 nmol/l (8.4-28.7)

SHBG (sex hormone bind.glob) – 17.3 nmol/l (13-71)

Testost Free calculated – 0.231 nmol/l

Cortisol 8 am ( – 732 nmol/l (118-618)

Somatomedin C (IGF-1) – 264 ng/ml (101-268)

Growth hormone – smaller from 0.13 mlU/l

Glucose ( – 79 mg/dl (70-100)

HbA1C – 5.3 %total Hb (4-6)

Urea ( – 32 mg/dl (17-43)

Creatinine ( 0.7 mg/dl (0.67-1.17)

Cholesterol – 271 mg/dl

Triglycerides – 378 mg/dl (10-250)

HDL – Cholesterol – 37.8 mg/dl

Non – HDL Cholesterol – 233 mg/dl

ALT (GPT) – 25 U/l

Egfr - above 1.73m² 60 ml/min/

Hope that some one will pot some light on the health condition