Re: New Labs---Elaine.--or any of the other wise people here.

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Hi Connie,

Your thyroid levels are a bit low. You could ask about lowering the dose to

1.25 since you're responding so well to 2.5 mg. Could it be your diastolic

blood pressure that's rising? This is the bottom number and it rises in

hypothyroidism. This happens pretty often when people move into hypo.

ATDs have a mild immune suppressing effect so they mildly slow down the bone

marrow's production of white blood cells on occasion. Less than 1% of people

on ATDs have this happen. When they do it's an idiosyncratic reaction that

generally occurs within the first four weeks on ATDs and there are drugs to

reverse it.

You might want to have a TSI next time around to see if you're moving toward

remission. With your low thyroid hormone levels on such a small dose of ATDs,

this is possible. Take care, Elaine