Can you pleses post the laboratory reference ranges along with your result so I can better comment.
my Free t3 is 1.94
Freet4 iws 066 and my TSh is 2.772 What does this mean?
Hi Magpieannie,
Thanks again for your great answer. Can I ask you, if you have a preferred online pharmacy from Canada? Do I just get an prescription from my Dr. for Armour thyroid and fax it to the pharmacy myself?
Thanks,
Leeann
Thank you all so much for all the information. I decided to take a small amount of T4 with my Armour for now and have a blood test done. But I will ask my Doctor to switch me to Erfa brand. I think, I will feel more comfortable taking that one.
Hope you feel better Fuel1212. I know how hard it is when you have symptoms and no one can help you.
My symptoms are usually in the morning and can go into midday.
Nerve Pain, ear fullness, and ringing, achy all over, burping...fun stuff
Thanks
Fuel1212, can I ask you, what kind of symptoms do you have?
ERFA is a Canadian dessicated thyroid replacement.
I have been on it for about 4 months and feel pretty good. I too have really low FT4 and normal TSH and good FT3.
I have symptoms from time to time but not sure if it would be the low FT4?
Thank you so much for your help.
I am considering to add some T4 only medication. However my Dr. thinks I will become Hyper doing that. I think, I will try a very small amount and get retested.
The only symptom I have is hair loss, which could also be from other things.
What is ERFA thyroid?
Hi,
do you have any symptoms?
Your FT3 is looking good, as does your TSH. But, yes, your FT4 is too low.
I agree that you shouldn't increase your armour dose. The proportion of t3 and t4 in armor is different from the proportion that you would get from your own thyroid (pigs have higher levels of T3 than humans).
But what you could do, is to ask your doctor to add in a low dose of T4 only med to get your FT4 up to mid-range.
I actually take a combination of ERFA thyroid and T4 med. Currently I take 215 mcg of ERFA and 100 mcg of T4 med. (I am pregnant though, so my doses are a bit higher than someone who wasn't pregnant). BUt this combination can definitely be done.