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got bach my lab result after switching for synthroid to armour

Please help anyone, I just got my lab result back and so scarred. I switched from synthroidto armour three months ago, and my result are scary: my tsh is 4.9  free t4: 7.4 my cholesterol: 215. when I was on synthroid my last lab work Tsh 1.22  free t4: 1.04  I heard that when you are on armour you should other test and should not look at the tsh anymore?????? is that true. help me please
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499534 tn?1328704178
You need a dosage increase....what dosage did you start at and how often have you increased? And yes as the others said....you need to have a TSH, Free T4 and Free T3 tests run to see where your levels are at.
Don't be afraid....you just need to be increased and brought to optimum level.  :)
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393685 tn?1425812522
Absolutely not !! I am on Armour and even though the TSH is defined in a different thiought process it still is important to look at for heaven's sake!!


I think AR meant Free T3 - do you have that?

Don't be scared ...... we will walk you through it. It's fine.

Cholestrol will be high'''''er Mine is at a 200 something too. ( I am retesting tomorrow I think)

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213044 tn?1236527460
Do you know the lab range on your Free T4?
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