Thanks for all of your help and insight. I am actually seeing an endocrinologist, and she wasn't doing anything for me, so I called my PCP yesterday and got into see her for a consult again because I wasn't satisfied with the answers I wasn't seeming to get with the endo. Hopefully we get something figured out soon. Thanks again for all of your support and answers!
Here is info on Creatinine Kinase. Note it can be elevated in hypothyroidism!
Creatinine Kinase (CK, CPK) is an enzyme found primarily in the heart and skeletal muscles, and to a lesser extent in the brain. Significant injury to any of these structures will lead to a measurable increase in CK levels.
Elevations found in:
Myocardial infarction
Crushing muscular trauma
Any cardiac or muscle disease, but not myesthenia gravis or multiple sclerosis
Brain injury
Hypothyroidism *********
Hypokalemia
Once elevated, CK remains elevated for several days, if the injury is acute.
If there is on-going injury, the CK will remain elevated indefinitely.
Hope you get your TSH levels dowm soon and feel better. You are severely hypo.
Are you seeing an Endocrinologist?
Your TSH is quite high. You should feel lousy.
It's 97.62, and it should be around 1.0.
Your Free T4 is practically not even there, because your thyroid is not producing much at all, if any, and your medication is not strong enough to supplement it. That is why your TSH is so high. Your body is screaming for more hormones.
Your thyroid ant-bodies are sky high. There is not much you can do about that. It is probably why you are having so much trouble with your medication dosage. Your thyroid is being damaged at a high rate due to the high anti-body counts.
You should be getting bloodwork at least every three months, period.
Every six weeks until your TSH is closer to 1.0. Whatever your med dosage is now, it needs to be increased if it hasn't been in the last month.
Hope you're feeling better soon.
If your doctor doesn't increase your med dosage by Tuesday, you need a different doctor. Assuming you haven't had an increase lately.
Got no idea what Creatin Kinase is. Sorry.