new iron & thyroid labs, help please:)

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got these new labs done on 5/20...last thursday.

not quite sure what to think, could someone please help me interpret them? Val,

i especially would love your input on the bilirubin.

protein, total, serum: 6.9 (6-8.5)

albumin, serum: 4.8 (3.5-5.5)

BILIRUBIN, total 2.6 (0.0-1.2) *my dads side all have always had high

bilirubin counts, says its a native

american thing. ??

bilirubin, direct 0.34 (0.0-0.4)

alkaline phosphatase, S 50 (25-150)

ast 17 (0-40)

alt 21 (0-40)

TIBC 300 (250-450)

UIBC 26 (150-375)

iron, serum 274 (35-155)

iron saturation 91 (15-55)

free T4 0.16 (0.82-1.77)

reverse T3 26 (90-350)

ferritin, serum 125 (13-150)

free T3 5.4 (2.0-4.4)

this week is actually my 12 week marker of t3 only.

i dont have any other recent iron labs to go by, just one from november of '09

which showed my ferritin to be 31....

my bilirubin has gone up; it was 2.0 the end of february... started t3 only

first week of march.

since i had low iron in november and hadnt supplemented, i assumed it was still

low, if not lower, so i have been taking 200mg of bluebonnet, plus beef liver

tabs, vitamin c, and i had just recently added lactoferrin. of course i was off

these supps for about 6 days before testing.

i also take probiotics, Betain hcl with every meal, vit d, b12, bcomplex, vit e,

magnesium, and on and off i take silimaryn.

i had been on 30-32.5mg HC since '07, when i got on armour, and lowered to

27.5mg a few weeks ago, did fine, stable temps etc., so i just recently started

backing down to 25mg HC, stress dosing to 27.5mg when needed, and am doing ok,

shaky at times, but stable temps and symptoms are so far so good.

as for thyroid, i have been very very slow to raise, seemed to be the low iron

holding me back, or maybe cortisol issues, hard to say. but at the time of the

labs i was stable on 50mcg t3, with temps 98.6, sometimes a little higher,

98.8-98.9 around ovulation. within the last week i have moved to 56.25mcg, and

just in the last day 62.5mcg, and temps are holding. they drop very slightly

after i dose my thyroid, but they come back up. i am feeling great most of the

time, and wondering what to do with these labs.

also, since i am around clearing time, i am wondering what to look out for, with

these labs as a reference.

thank you in advance for any help!!! this group is a lifesaver, thanks guys!

-alexis