Re: Re: Need opinion Thyroid test/ & Mike, Tim got Prednisolone prescribed

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In frequent-dose-chelation Carie wrote:

He's my husband, 39 years old.

In an earlier posting (need a push in the right direction) I talked

about seeing the doctor (family practice) for a try at hydrocortisone

for adrenal insuffiency.We went today and he said he was not

comfortable prescribing HC on a daily basis but was ok with a

prednisolone taper. He ordered it at 5 mg 3x's a day. Then said that

i could taper it down to once a day and he will see us in a month.

That was the extent of the instructions.

I know that prednisolone at 5mg is the equivalent to 20mg of HC. I

don't think I will be doing his exact dosing unless someone who has

done this sort of thing tells me it went ok for them.

---------In the back of AI, Andy has instructions for doing a prednisolone

taper. So check that out. had me do a HC taper, which was

60mg/day for a week, then 40, then 20, and that went fine. I think others

(Dana?) have also done HC tapers with her, so hopefully they will

respond.----------Jackie

More below about the thyroid.----------Jackie

Carie

> >

> > This is Tim's latest Thyroid test.

> > Although the TSH doesn't look right to me, Im having trouble

knowing if

> > the relationship between all tests suggest an abnormality.

> > Not sure how to do the comparison in andy's book. Could someone

make it

> > easier on me if you already know how to do this?

---------Sorry I haven't really used those charts either, and not everything

is in the same units of measure, so I don't know how to appy it either.

Anyway, as said, they usually suggest your Free T3 and Free T4 to be in

the upper part 1/3 to 1/4 of the range, to feel the best. It seems with mercury

toxic people, that the TSH often doesn't mean much, so you can probably just

ignore that. The last one is checking for thyroid antibodies, and he doesn't

have any, so that is good. The other question would be is what are his temps

like? This is what Dean would suggest, is that you track his temperatures, and

if he's low, then he needs thyroid support. More info at his livingnetwork

website, should be in links section. Dean also has some good thyroid info and

links there too. So I would suggest you do some reading there. Oh, and

remember, always treat the adrenals first, before the thyroid.----------Jackie

> > Carie

> >

> > TSH is 0.85 Ref range(0.34-5.60 IU/ml)

> > Free T4 0.87 Ref range (0.58-1.26 ng/gl)

> > Free T3 327 Ref range (230-420 pg/dl)

> > Total T4 8.1 Ref range (6.1-12.2 ug/dl)

> > T3 Uptake 38.6 Ref range (32.0-48.4%)

> > FTI 7.8 Ref range (5.9-13.1 ug/dl)

> > Thyroid Peroxidase AB <10 Ref range (<35)

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