Re: Question for those who have tried to add T4 again / ferritin

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Losing blood by any means might lower ferritin. I know the lab techs claim it

is a tiny amount your body won't even miss, but I believe they DO add up and

lower ferritin. Try asking if the lab tech can use the " pediatric " collection

tubes, they are smaller.

An example of this is pre- vs. post-menopausal women. They tell us that it's a

relatively small amount of blood that is actually lost during a woman's period.

Yet iron deficiency is MUCH more common among pre- women than post- women. I

feel it may be small amounts individually, but over and over and over and over

they DO add up, just like lab blood draws.

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> >, with your level of experience, how dangerous would you say it is to

be on 2 grains of ERFA Thyroid, considering this is 20% T3 and 80% T4 roughly?

Speaking of rT3 conversion and all...

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> The biggest potential problem with sitting on 2 grains is being under

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> medicated considering that the normal range for people to feel well is

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> 3 to 5 grains (see STTM) and that 65 of T3 is equivalent to 2.5 grains

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> if you are converting will, equivalent to more grains if you don't

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> convert well.

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> You are in danger of being on the edge of hypo still.

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> Nick

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