So far, so great!
Posted on: March 24, 2006 | Posted in: My Story
Well. Just got back from the doc’s office… and the appointment couldn’t have gone better.
- There is a virus going around that would explain most of my ‘returned’ symptoms.
- My blood test results were pretty much ideal.
- And best of all, even though my test results were fine, she agreed to give me an Armour prescription!
You may wonder why, if my symptoms are not due to my thyroid, and my blood test results were great, I would want to mess with my medication? Well, I’d love to say it’s all for the benefit of YOU, my dear reader, and my interest in providing you with a more complete tale of the variables available to today’s hypothyroid patient… but it’s not.
As I’ve said before, I liken it to the breast milk vs. infant formula thing. There are compounds in breast milk that, although it wasn’t understood until fairly recently, are highly beneficial to a growing infant which are not (and cannot be) duplicated in artificial formula. And I am willing to bet that there are beneficial things in natural thyroid medication that are not duplicated in a straight synthetic T4 replacement.
The doc once again asked me about depression, and I explained that I have not been happier with my life in years. Actually, just last night a friend came over to my house, and kept commenting about how she’d never seen me smiling and laughing and just overall seeming genuinely happy in the whole time she’d known me, compared to now. So. I think depression is out. Which is when she said she would assume my symptoms were caused by the virus going around then, because my blood test results were pretty ideal…
My TSH was down to .8, which is in the low end of “normal” range, my T4 was at the top end of normal at 12.1 (which is actually .1 over normal, but the doc said she wasn’t worried about .1, since I wasn’t having hyperthyroid symptoms), and my T3 is right in the middle of normal at 103.
I am very curious, if my TSH is low-isn and my T4 is high-ish, while my T3 is midrange, if the T3 in the Armour will cause a noticable symptomatic difference? Stay tuned…. tales of Armour Thyroid compared to generic levothyroxin coming up!
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