Guest guest Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Congrats on a perfect response to the meds. Now that they have lowered your THYROID hormones, it is time to take LESS medication, lest you continue DOWN. IF you stay on the same dose OR raise it, your THYROID numbers will go lower ( hypo) and all other numbers will get worse as the body is poisoned and tries to fight the poison. -Pam L- 3 1/2 years Graves', TED, and PTU. Remission since Jan. 28th. 2002 ! Key: SLOW reduction of PTU (despite an incompetent endo ! ), eight hour dosing, improved lifestyle, REAL food/ no processed pre-made food, herbs, and looking at the big picture. _____________________________________________________ Pills alone only help the symptoms. We must help our bodies to heal. _____________________________________________________ * " What a long, strange, trip it's been " ...Jerry .... Peace* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Congrats on a perfect response to the meds. Now that they have lowered your THYROID hormones, it is time to take LESS medication, lest you continue DOWN. IF you stay on the same dose OR raise it, your THYROID numbers will go lower ( hypo) and all other numbers will get worse as the body is poisoned and tries to fight the poison. -Pam L- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Even though I still feel hyper I should ask her to lower the Tap? I'm thinking that I need to be a little bit lower for me to feel right. I'm still jittery feeling even though I've cut out most everything that I know to cut. Should I give it a 2 week test and talk to her on the 28th? I definitely wouldn't be happy about trying this if I had to wait a month before labs again, but 2 weeks? Are things going to get bad that quickly? Wouldn't I be able to tell if I started going too far the hypo direction? <sigh> Darn! This is complicated. Is this what affected the blood counts? Thanks for the response though. Definitely have to do some thinking here. Carolyn B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Hi Carolyn, Your FT4 is right where you want it--even a bit lower than need be probably, but that's a variable with each individual one of us. TSH is meaningless, virtually, since it lags at least 6 weeks behind. I don't think much of T3 uptake either, it's an outdated test--but you are smack dab in he middle of the range, so you are normal except if you look for " normal range " TSH results--something you may NEVER have, no matter how hypO your (idiot) doctor makes you go. in my opinion (as well as Pam's) you DO NOT want to increase your meds based on these labs! It would be a serious mistake, moving you directly to hypO, no picnic at all. You will probably need to pay close attention to your symptoms, and drop your dose gradually at this point to keep in normal range. One serious misunderstanding many people seem to have is that their doctor should dictate everything they do--in fact, the relationship with the doctor, to be successful, needs to incorporate a dialog, where you also get to tell the doctor what YOU want to do (such as lowering your dose) and why. Doctors can and must be educated by US, or they simply will go along with " the program " without doing their proper research and updating their knowledge of the disease and medications and the effect of taking too much medication for your state! Most of us who have been on meds do best at the high end of normal on FT4--and most of us disregard TSH results. At this point, even my endo doesn't pay much attention to mine, although he continues to order the test. Check your pulse, your sleep, your energy level, your hair...look at the symptom lists on the home page, they are VERY useful. Bottom line, it's YOU who has to take control of this disease. No doctor can do it for you! Terry > > Reply-To: graves_support > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:15:49 -0000 > To: graves_support > Subject: lab results > > These are not exactly what I requested, but the nurse who took the > message could have easily gotten them wrong. I have an appointment > with the dr on Oct 28 to go over these and I can ask for the FT3 and > the TSI again and see what she says then. These labs were taken > exactly one month from the date I started the Tap and I have no > others to reference except the the TSH which has always tested out > at .004. > > FT4 1.34 ( .61 - 1.76) > TSH .004 (.35 - 5.5) > T3 Uptake 31 (24 - 39) > > I have been on 1 10mg three times a day and she wants me to go to > add one more pill by doing 2 in the am, 1 at afternoon and 1 at pm. > Then we will retest in another month. Nurse told me that I should > call if I had any problems with the increase in dosage and the > doctor knew I was coming in the end of the month so we could talk > then. Does this sound like a good plan? Why the increase? I was > excited about the numbers themselves, but maybe she's still hung up > on the TSH number. <sigh> She does seem more than willing to test > what I want and go the ATD route as long as I do her blood and liver > tests when she wants. Sounds like a fair exchange so far. > > Oh, and my WBC, hemoglobin, hematocrit and Lymphs(Absolute) counts > are higher than they've been so far. I'm not even sure what some of > these are, but is she gonna have a problem with them? Just thought > I'd be prepared if need be.) > > Thanks for looking and I'm still reading everything I can find..... > > Carolyn B. > > > > > ------------------------------------- > The Graves' list is intended for informational purposes only and is not > intended to replace expert medical care. > Please consult your doctor before changing or trying new treatments. > ---------------------------------------- > DISCLAIMER > > Advertisments placed on this yahoo groups list do not have the endorsement of > the listowner. I have no input as to what ads are attached to emails. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Does anyone know where I can look to find out more about high levels of ALT, AST, and aspartic acid, on a metabolic panel and amino acids testing? I'm wondering what my son's lab results actually mean. The guy at the hospital stressed that some of these were high, and said something about the liver. They don't seem astronomically high to me, though. I already contacted my son's ped to get info from her on this, but of course that could take a few days - and I'm curious tonight, lol! Any info in the meantime, especially any reliable websites or books I could look stuff up in, would be great. It's good to get info ahead of time anyway, so I can ask better questions when I do talk to her. Thanks! Lynne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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