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TSH Testing
by fransports, Jul 09, 2008 11:13AM
Went to the doctor in march for symptoms of anxiety, tremors, small weight loss, heart palp. Doctor perscribed zoloft and did a TSH test. TSH came back at 0.05. He said to retest in 3 months. went back in june TSH was 0.02. He then tested T3 and T4. He said they were normal. He said to come back in 4 weeks to have my only my TSH tested again. In the mean time I have not taken the zoloft, stiil having hyper symptoms. Can anyone guess why he is testing only my TSH again. Thanks
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Tishtock, you need a new Endo.
Follow AR's testing suggestions - make sure the FREE testing is done - not just T3 and T4.
May be helpful to educate your doctor on follow up testing with abnormal labs and ask for an uptake thyroid scan too.
PS - you may want to look up Zoloft and abnormal TSH labs on Google. Anything that effects the brain receptors as medication or other things will effect a TSH lab test
and if used for too long - will effect the thyroid gland itself.