Re: Re: 4 weeks to go - Needing a little reassurance / ratio

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A ratio of 11 is bad enough to end up wiht Congestive Heart Failure. It

is bad enough ot cause BP of 245/148. It is bad enough to cripple oyu

eventually wiht fluid retention. Jeez how do I knwo this? Tat was MY

ratio when i finally got it tested. I suspect my ratio was even worse

when i was So ill but suffive it to say it is not a place you CAN get

well from without T3 to correct it.

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

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> Yeah, I already knew that a ratio below 20 meant there was a problem but thank

you anyway! (in a nice way . I guess what I meant was, with a ratio of 11,

would I expect a 'spectacular clearance'(as apposed to a worse ratio - say below

10). Is a ratio of 11 really that bad?

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> It feels bad enough to me. Although I've had improvements since starting on

T3, I still can't even drive and feel very uncomfortable venturing out alone on

foot, especially crossing a busy road, due to the brain fog/out of it/off

balance thing... I feel a lot less anxious if I am with someone for some reason

yet I still get the same feeling in my head. I get it in the car too - it used

to cause panic attacks in the car, whether I was a passenger or driving, before

I worked out it wasn't anxiety causing the weird feeling.

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> I don't feel like I can go back to work and do the things I want to do in life

until this feeling clears... it creates so much confusion and anxiety and 'out

of it-ness'. I have had two days of amazing, total clearness since starting t3

but it has gone again both times.

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> Just scared it won't work properly - like everyone else in my situation, it

seems. We can't imagine after being so sick for so long that it will work! I can

hardly bear the thought of being stuck like this after now having that feeling

and high hopes that it will all go away.

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> Reading Ariela Levi's post 'Does clearance really exist?' and it's responses

has helped... thank you Ariela and to those that responded. Val, your story

takes the cake - thank you so much for sharing (I have also read it in Janie

Bowthorpe's 'Stop the Thyroid Madness' Book)and for all that you do for us!

(that thank you does not feel adequate - it's hard to put into words).

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> I just want to get better and get back home to my partner in Denmark. Less

than 3 weeks to go now until clearance (please let me feel actually clear in the

head after wards!). I have only been able to raise to 95mcg (110mcg plus high

cortisol and a stressful situation caused problems with high pulse, heart palps,

insomnia and sweating).

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> That is officially enough writing for me for one day (something I could not do

so well before starting on T3 only treatment). Good night (sleeping is another

thing I have got better at).

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> Alana

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>>>> The people who feel a surge are the ones who had bad resistance and

>>>> took the T3 dose up high to minimize hypo symptoms while waiting

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