Low FT3/RT3 ratio and High Ferritin

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Hello everyone, I am new here, hope you can help me.

I posted at the NTH group and they sent me here =)

I have lots of symptoms of hypo, am male, 27 years old and this is my first

thyroid panel (I take no medications). I tried to follow the STTM site. I also

intend to do the 24h salivar cortisol test.

TSH: 0.89 (0.35 - 4.94)

FT3: 3.70 pg/ml (2.00 - 4.40)

FT4: 1.24 ng/dl (0.70 - 1.48)

RT3: 27.4 ng/dl (8.0 - 40.0)

Anti Thyroglobulin Antibodies: Don't react.

Anti Peroxidase: 0.15 (< 5.61)

Serum Sodium: 137 (136 - 145)

Serum Potassium: 4.1 (3.6 - 5.1)

Aldosterone: 27.5 (4.0 - 31.0)

Renin: 62 (4.4 - 46.1)

Ferritin: 437.26 (21.81 - 274.66)

Vit. B-12: 860.1 (208 - 963.5)

Vit. D 25 Hidroxi: 35.6 (30 - 100)

Vit. D 1,25 Hidroxi: 30.3 (18 - 78)

Free Testosterone 6.62 (3.4 - 24.6)

Total Testosterone 4.15 (1.66 - 8.77)

For aldosterone/renin, followed http://faqhelp.webs.com/aldosteroneandrenin.htm

For Vit. D, didn't take my supplement for 3 days before test. I took at least

10,000 IUs daily for the last year, so the result shouldn't be so low.

For Ferritin, this got me scared. For 3 days before the test I ate low in meat

(I am a heavy meat eater and I cook it in iron cast pan).

Follo­wing Dr. Rind graph, my tem­pe­ra­ture is low (thyroid problem) and is all

over the map (adrenal problem).

Following the Pupil Test, my pupil flut­ters a lot (aldosterone problem).

Thanks!

Tim

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>For Ferritin, this got me scared. For 3 days before the test I ate low in meat

(I am a heavy meat eater and I cook it in iron cast pan).

We normally say 5 days without supplements so that will be a slight

skew but not that big a skew.

At this point it's worth having a full iron panel and posting the

results for Val to see here.

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>Follo­wing Dr. Rind graph, my tem­pe­ra­ture is low (thyroid problem) and is

all over the map (adrenal problem).

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>Following the Pupil Test, my pupil flut­ters a lot (aldosterone problem).

The renin result in particular is associated with that.

When you have the saliva test results back join the adrenal group and

post the adrenal and aldosterone results there

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

For the thyroid it all looks good at first glance BUT the FT3/RT3

ratio is not good

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>TSH: 0.89 (0.35 - 4.94)

>FT3: 3.70 pg/ml (2.00 - 4.40)

>FT4: 1.24 ng/dl (0.70 - 1.48)

>RT3: 27.4 ng/dl (8.0 - 40.0)

370/27.4 = 13.5. This should be 20 or greater.

In your case the FT3 is reasonable but the FT3 is high, and going onto

T3 only as per the protocol here will improve that.

The optimism way of doing it is to support adrenals with HC and

florinef as required until temperatures stabilize and then add T3 to

bring temperature up

www.thyroid-rt3.com

talks about the dosing of the T3.

Have a look through the site if you haven't already and feel free to

ask questions,

Nick