My apologies on the placement of this thread; I wasn't too sure where it should be placed, as you'd most likely see things similar to this in the male anti-aging forum, but I'm only 25 and this is unrelated to test/estro. So, I figured I'd place this here to give others who may share similar backgrounds as myself to see this and hopefully learn from it.
For those of you who don't know my story, I won't divulge into it here, but you can search for "The Official Hypothyroidism Thread" and find it summed up pretty well, there. Since the end of January I've been battling with this and with the help of MakaveliThaDon and others on here, as well, I'd narrowed down my problem to thinking it was an issue with Reverse T3 (see the other thread for info regarding this -- lots of helpful links on a condition not many know about). This most recent set of labs (after being on 50mcg of T4 for ~3 months, followed by 2 months of 112mcg of T4) confirms it.
Now for some reason, they told me to continue my dose of 112mcg of T4/day (which, I actually stopped taking on Saturday in the assumption that these would be the results I'd find out), despite the fact that when one encounters the issue of Reverse T3, additional T4 is simply converted into MORE Reverse T3. That being said, I'm going to try dropping into a different endocrinologist's office tomorrow (the only one in town, not the one I've been seeing in the city, 45 minutes away) and see if they'll give me all of 5 minutes to look at my labs in hand and prescribe me the T3 that I need to resolve this issue.
Feel free to turn this into a discussion. Labs are posted below:
For those of you who don't know my story, I won't divulge into it here, but you can search for "The Official Hypothyroidism Thread" and find it summed up pretty well, there. Since the end of January I've been battling with this and with the help of MakaveliThaDon and others on here, as well, I'd narrowed down my problem to thinking it was an issue with Reverse T3 (see the other thread for info regarding this -- lots of helpful links on a condition not many know about). This most recent set of labs (after being on 50mcg of T4 for ~3 months, followed by 2 months of 112mcg of T4) confirms it.
Now for some reason, they told me to continue my dose of 112mcg of T4/day (which, I actually stopped taking on Saturday in the assumption that these would be the results I'd find out), despite the fact that when one encounters the issue of Reverse T3, additional T4 is simply converted into MORE Reverse T3. That being said, I'm going to try dropping into a different endocrinologist's office tomorrow (the only one in town, not the one I've been seeing in the city, 45 minutes away) and see if they'll give me all of 5 minutes to look at my labs in hand and prescribe me the T3 that I need to resolve this issue.
Feel free to turn this into a discussion. Labs are posted below: