Have you been checked for Chiari Malformation? My daughter was diagnosed with this in Nov. 07. My husband and I have researched and read a lot about this. It is a very common illness but yet rare diagnosis due to doctors being unaware of this. Anyway, stumbled upon your post and thought you symptoms reminded me of several related to Chiari. It is often misdiagnosed as depression, fibramyalga (sp?) & chronic fatique disorder. May be worth googling and then if it does seem to fit ask for an MRI. Best Wishes!
Thanks for the thoughts. I received my lab results today that I had taken this past Monday. All results were in acceptable ranges with the exception of Eosinophils which had a value of 8 and reference range is 0-7%. Lyme results should be received next week.
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Yeap that is one word the doctor's have as a "catch all" for Dx's
Yeap - I got the crazy notes on me since I got ill. Right AR??
Now after 6 years of he// I don't give a rip if they think I'm nuts. In fact they treat me a little precautiously now LOL
Keep on them and get thos labs down as AR said - you with a TT should be lower on the charts anyway - around a .3 and more more than a 1.0.
Good Luck
That's the truth.
You should hear the stories the girls tell. Most of them have been called crazy and handed anti-depressants.
My first GP tried to put me on anti-depressants before he finally got around to checking my thyroid. He told me I was depressed. After I went home and read about the drug, I took the free samples and the perscription back to him.
I told him I didn't feel THAT depressed. A few months later he ran bloodtests and Walla, I had Hypothyroidism.
But it only happened once. Some of these people get that treatment from every new doctor they go to.
I'm sure this will all be discuseed at my upcoming appt. I'm just extremely frustrated that once 'one' enters the medical realm of subjective symptoms when labs that have been done are 'normal' it's very easy for the clinician to focus on mental illness being the cause.
A high "normal" TSH will give you symptoms of Hypothroid.
The tingling and nerve sensations are probably calcium related. There has to be just the right balance betweem calcium and magnesium? or manganese?, or mangos (I forget) in order for calcium absorbtion to take place properly.
Your TSH should be around 1.0 or 1.5.
3.0 and above is not acceptable, regardless of what the lab says.
It was TSH. I do take a calcium tablet daily. My endo wasn't concerned with the results so suggested continued follow-up with PCP. I was informed of this via his RN since I could not get an appt. to see him (just lab work was done). My annual appt. is in a month so I will discuss everything that has been going on over the past several months.
It sounds to me like you are Hypothyroid and are also having problems with your calcium levels.
When you say your thyroid levels were in the high end of normal, are you talking about your T4 or your TSH?