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[DEN53]

Sqad - just phoned Docs to get my repeat thyroid blood test result from Friday of last week - do you remember me saying my TSH was 6.something - well now it is 9.9, thats gone up since my last bloods in May.............I have increased my Thyroxine to 100mg per day (as I was taking 100mg and 75mg on alternate days). How long do you think before they kick in, as I am feeling so low at the moment. My fasting glucose was 6.0 which I think is high.......

This reading seems to have gone down a few notches very fast since May up until now - don't know why this has dramatically changed, as I have been fine up until the last blood test. After I had my op 6 years ago, it took 2 years of back and forth to the Nuffield to get my levels stabilised - now I am back to square one again, and feel like crying. (:o(

[Sqad]

What oh! what has the T4 got top do with it?
This is utter nonsense.
Your TSH is the best evaluater of thyroid function and it is high.
Your Dr is WRONG.........ask him to explain your high TSH....I can on;y presume that he was ill when the lecture on thyroid disorders was given.

[cazzz1975]

my meds were upped because my t4 was low and my tsh was raised (not to 9 though !) I had also been feeling rundown and tired, I feel a little better however I am suffering with a chest infection at the moment so its hard to appreciate the increase.

[DEN53]

Have just phoned to book appointment at Nuffield with endo consultant - but he is away on annual leave until 10th August (I knew that would happen).

Sqad - if I had not rang the GP surgery yesterday, they would never have let me know. When the practice nurse said, as my T4 was within normal limits, GP could'nt understand why I was feeling so ill, I thought, perhaps something else is causing this. She said the T4 was more important than the TSH readings ! (she was just repeating what the GP said).

Hope you feel better soon cazzz - chest infections can really pull you down.

[Sqad]

Den...it really p1sses me off when a patient with a straight forward medical condition needs to sees a Consultant.

T4 is only important in the first 3months of stabilisation, from thereon in the TSH is the important figure. Make sure that you have upped your dose.

Exasperated of Menorca.

[DEN53]

Sqad - I have upped the dose from last Friday to 100mcg per day - but to date everyday I feel a little worse - not sure I can survive 6 weeks for them to kick in. (:o( - I feel faint, fatigued and generally sh!te....(:o(

[Sqad]

Den....it will take time to kick in and an increase in 25mcgms on alternate days is "bugger all"

If that were me......I would increase it by 25mcgms EVERY day.

[DEN53]

I did ask the nurse, if 100mcg would be adequate, and she said to go up anymore could have an adverse affect on me (:o(

[Bobbisox]

come on sqadlet, DEN seems very down here and is wanting some kind of reassurance :-)

[Sqad]

Den, my darling....you have got my opinion.

Bobby....bugger off ;-)

[Bobbisox]

shurrruuuppp you :-))))

[DEN53]

I personally think, when I saw the GP back in May and was told my TSH was 6.0, she should have increased my meds to 100mcg everyday then. It was only when I came home and looked at my old blood test results from 3 years ago from the Nuffield, I realised how bad the TSH result was. Now I am paying the price with my health, (and she is one of the better GPs in our practice !!).

[Sqad]

Den...on the next plane and i will give you a good going over...;-)

125mcgms a day and you will be a different woman within a month.

[DEN53]

Save your plane fare, Sqad - I look and feel a wreck at the moment {:o((