Oh, no, low ft3 with no symptoms except temp

July 14, 2010

I had my husband do a blood work up since (a) he's into anti-aging therapies and

( he's 41 now.

Everything came up great except the A1c, which I figured would be bad because

he's been a vegetarian for a few years and eats way too many carbs, including

refined carbs. Fortunately, a blood glucose meter quickly changed his habits and

I am happy to report his pp1 and pp2 are both in the 90s now.

But here's the kicker -- his thryoid labs.

tsh 1.6 (.4 - 4.5)

ft4 1.4 (.8 - 1.8)

ft3 298 (230 - 420)

didn't test rt3, but I can and will.

I've seen this pattern before -- with myself, and I know it points to a rt3

problem. Only I feel like CRAP with labs like this and he feels GREAT! I'm not

just saying this, he has absolutely NO hypo symptoms. Tons of energy, sleeps

great, doesn't even drink coffee (makes me sick), hikes and skies for 6-8 hours

a day. Works out and bikes daily. Never ever constipated, no high lipids. Thin.

I mean, he has NO symptoms -- except one. I tested his temp today at 1:30 and

it was only 97.3. Last year, his temp averages were great.

So what the heck? It appears he's hypo, but the only symptom is low temp -- so

far anyway.

Could the high BG the past few years have caused a rt3 problem.

Only other thing I can think of is *maybe* he is running on high cortisol and

that's why he feels good still, as I know that high cortisol is the number one

cause of rt3 issues and conversion problem, although I don't think he has any

symptoms of high cortisol, either. Not overt ones anyway, he even sleeps great,

but those may take a while to show up.

I don't want him to go down the path I've been on. :-( I'm wondering if we can

nip this in the bud, we can actually fix the rt3 problem.

Besides saliva testing, what else should we be doing? iron panel, b12, what

else??

Also, I hate to say this, but he started DHEA 25 mg for the past 6 months or so

since he was 40, the standard age that anti-aging experts say to start DHEA.

Should he stop that 2 weeks before testing?

Terrified,

Kathleen

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