Fibromyalgia

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Hi Nick or ,

My wife, was finally diagnosed with fibromyalgia about 12 years ago after many years of not knowing what was causing muscle aches, difficulty sleeping, brain fog and other symptoms associated with FMS. No longer willing to take drugs to alleviate the symptoms, we spent hours and hours doing extensive internet research which has led us to the root cause being low functioning thyroid. She has a good naturopathic doctor who has her on ¾ grain Naturthroid to help with the symptoms. Since she is only 118lb. and 5' 6" and not gaining weight, he did not want to increase Naturthroid being concerned she would lose more weight. Therefore, the symptoms have not improved. He did a saliva test through Diagnos-Techs and the results show Free Cortisol Rhythm as below:

6-8am = 33nM (ref. value 13-24)

11am-12pm = 16nM (ref. value 5-10)

4-5pm = 9nM (ref. value 3-8)

10pm-12am = 4nM (ref. value 1-4)

The doctor has her on Seriphos (phosphorylated serine) to reduce the cortisol and fish oils for anti-inflammatory.

The blood test results are as below:

rT3 was 30 (ref. 11-32ng/dL)

Free T3 was 3.0 (ref. 2.0-4.8pg/mL)

Question: We have tried figuring the ratio from different sources which used different formulas and come up with different answers.

Based on the above, can you tell if reverse T3 is a problem?

Any ideas on what we should do next? (also, at night she says her heart is pounding when she can't fall asleep from being wired).

We have a book by Dr. Jefferies "Safe Uses of Cortisol" where he thinks physiologic doses of cortisol may be helpful for FMS. Have you any thoughts on this?

Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Rick and

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Her ratio is 300/30= 10 and it needs to be at least 20 for good

health so yes she has a serious RT3 problem. I do not think she

needs HC with thes e4labs, thta is for treating LOW cortisol. I do

believe much of Fibro pain is from hypothyroid, which this high RT3

will maker her FUNCTIONALLY hypo. I say functionally as her labs (

the free T3) does not indicate ot a doctor thta she is hypo, but to

me even wihtout the RT3 that level is too low. With her high RT3

bound ot the recepotrs there is so few receptors open to receive

what little T3 she has, it can cause MANY pro9blems and Fibro pain

is certainyl one of them. My Fibro pains is completely gone on T3

only and I had some pretty bad stuff happening.

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http://faqhelp.webs.com/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/

http://www.thyroid-rt3.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HypoPets/

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Hi Nick or

,

My wife,

was finally diagnosed with fibromyalgia about 12 years ago

after many years of not knowing what was causing muscle aches,

difficulty sleeping, brain fog and other symptoms associated

with FMS. No longer willing to take drugs to alleviate the

symptoms, we spent hours and hours doing extensive internet

research which has led us to the root cause being low

functioning thyroid. She has a good naturopathic doctor who

has her on ¾ grain Naturthroid to help with the symptoms.

Since she is only 118lb. and 5' 6" and not gaining weight, he

did not want to increase Naturthroid being concerned she would

lose more weight. Therefore, the symptoms have not improved.

He did a saliva test through Diagnos-Techs and the results

show Free Cortisol Rhythm as below:

6-8am

= 33nM (ref. value 13-24)

11am-12pm

= 16nM (ref. value 5-10)

4-5pm

= 9nM (ref. value 3-8)

10pm-12am

= 4nM (ref. value 1-4)

The doctor has her on Seriphos (phosphorylated serine)

to reduce the cortisol and fish oils for anti-inflammatory.

The blood test

results are as below:

rT3 was 30

(ref. 11-32ng/dL)

Free T3 was

3.0 (ref. 2.0-4.8pg/mL)

Question: We have

tried figuring the ratio from different sources which used

different formulas and come up with different answers.

Based on the

above, can you tell if reverse T3 is a problem?

Any ideas on

what we should do next? (also, at night she says her heart

is pounding when she can't fall asleep from being wired).

We have a

book by Dr. Jefferies "Safe Uses of Cortisol" where he

thinks physiologic doses of cortisol may be helpful for

FMS. Have you any thoughts on this?

Any advice you

can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Rick and