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Here's my test results:

TSH 1.470 uIU/ml 0.450-4.500

Free T3 2.4 pg/ml 2.0-4.4

Free T4 1.38 ng/dl 0.82-1.77

Iron and TIBC:

Iron Bind.Cap (TIBC) 323 ug/dl 250-450

UIBC 274 ug/dl 150-375

Iron, Serum 49 ug/dl 35-155

Iron Saturation 15 % 15-55

Cortisol

(blood) Done at 10.30 am 8.3 ug/dl 2.3-19.4

Vitamin D 27.3 ng/ml 32.0-100.0

DHEA Sulafte 290.1 ug/dl 98.8-340.0

Reverse T3 436 pg/ml 90-350

Ferritin, Serum 13 nd/ml 13-150

17- Alpha- Hydroxyprogesterone 80 ng/dl

follicular: 15-70

Luteal: 35-290

Testosteron, Serum (total) 39 ng/dl

premenopausal 10-55

Androstenedione, Serum 173 ng/dl

Adult Female: 28-230

I am 28 years old, and this was done on day 8 of my cycle.

Cortisol, Saliva

9am 6.1 ng/ml 8.0-15.0

1 pm 2.4 3.0-7.0

7 pm 1.8 2.0-4.0

12am 1.4 <1.5

I am taking Vit D3, 10,000IU, Iron Bisglycinate 25 mg, 3-4 pills a day,

multivitamin, T3/t4 compound ratio 5:20 respectively 30 mg once a day ( I

reduced it from twice a day to clear rt3 since nothing helps much anyway),

probiotic, omega 3.

My doctor prescribed cortef 5 mg twice a day.

Please take a look at these and provide your expert advice.

Much thanks.

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>Here's my test results:

>TSH 1.470 uIU/ml 0.450-4.500

>Free T3 2.4 pg/ml 2.0-4.4

>Free T4 1.38 ng/dl 0.82-1.77

Horribly hypo, FT3 needs to be top of range. TSH is too high still

FT4 is too high, at levels over 1.4 it tends to have the T4 converting

to RT3 instead of T3

>

>Iron and TIBC:

>Iron Bind.Cap (TIBC) 323 ug/dl 250-450

>UIBC 274 ug/dl 150-375

>Iron, Serum 49 ug/dl 35-155

>Iron Saturation 15 % 15-55

>

LOW, that saturation needs to be 35% at least in order to

tolerate/utilize enough T3

>Cortisol

>(blood) Done at 10.30 am 8.3 ug/dl 2.3-19.4

Looks low to me

>

>Vitamin D 27.3 ng/ml 32.0-100.0

>

Low, needs to be a minimum of 50 and takes a lot to increase it,

10,000 IU a day will help that.

>DHEA Sulafte 290.1 ug/dl 98.8-340.0

Don't know

>

>Reverse T3 436 pg/ml 90-350

OUCH, horrendous, that's where all the T4 is going

>Ferritin, Serum 13 nd/ml 13-150

>

OUCH, low, needs to be 70.

Either iron IVs or 150mg of elemental iron a day for months.

>

>

>

>17- Alpha- Hydroxyprogesterone 80 ng/dl

>follicular: 15-70

>Luteal: 35-290

don't know

>

>Testosteron, Serum (total) 39 ng/dl

>premenopausal 10-55

>

>

Don't know

>Androstenedione, Serum 173 ng/dl

>Adult Female: 28-230

>I am 28 years old, and this was done on day 8 of my cycle.

>

Don't know>

>

>Cortisol, Saliva

>

>9am 6.1 ng/ml 8.0-15.0

>1 pm 2.4 3.0-7.0

>7 pm 1.8 2.0-4.0

>12am 1.4 <1.5

>

Seriously low, you need HC

>I am taking Vit D3, 10,000IU,

Good

> Iron Bisglycinate 25 mg, 3-4 pills a day,

you need that much twice a day taken with vitamin C to help absorption

>multivitamin,

OK

>T3/t4 compound ratio 5:20 respectively 30 mg once a day ( I reduced it from

twice a day to clear rt3 since nothing helps much anyway),

Totally under medicated hence the high TSH. You need to go T3 only to

get rid of the RT3, just reducing the combination sends you hypo.

RT3 is only made from T4, get rid of T3 and no more can be made and

what's there decays over a period of months,

>probiotic, omega 3.

>My doctor prescribed cortef 5 mg twice a day.

That's enough to make it worse!! It needs to be a minimum of 20mg a

day. A small dose suppresses your own production but does not replace

what it has suppressed.

Join the adrenal group (details at end) and post the saliva labs there

and they will help you with dosing that.

>Please take a look at these and provide your expert advice.

>Much thanks.

You need Iron, HC, and T3 only.

Get the combination right and you will feel a lot better

Nick

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