Very old labs -- how do they look?

[compnet]

Hello everyone.  I've written out to the few doctors I've been to in the past and I'm awaiting records plus will be retesting soon.  I just got some thyroid results from when I was younger, and I had bad fatigue and other hypo symptoms then too, plus family history.  I'm so happy I finally got something, albeit very old.  

How do these results look?  (I put ranges where they gave them, don't have on all though.)


Age 16 - year 1999

TSH 2.6 (ref 0.7-5.7)

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Age 14 - year 1997

FTI 2.3
TSH 1.7
T3 31
T4 7.3

(I don't know if they are total or free 3's and 4's)

I wish I had the free's for certain -- I know they are the most important!

Thank you all.

[compnet]

My March 2010 labwork:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Thyroid-Disorders/New-thyroid-labwork/show/1193153

[goolarra]

2.6 was getting close to hypo territory.  

Not everyone feels best at a TSH of 1.0...that's really a misleading statement.  Some of us would be hopelessly hypo at 1.0, and others very hyper.  We all have to find the range where we feel good personally.  And that's best done by analyzing and manipulating FT3 and FT4, not TSH.

Teen age is sooo difficult to figure out...so many things going on.  Also, the passage of a few years has seen some advances in testing methodology, so it's about as difficult to come up with as ancient history.  I know, when I was a kid, they glossed over a whole lot of stuff that they wouldn't now.  I have a congenital heart defect that went undiagnosed until I was 50-something because when I was a kid, kids "didn't have" heart problems and I was made to feel slightly crazy.

[compnet]

It's interesting to know, after learning people feel best at 1.0 TSH that it was around age 13/14 that I felt so alive and energetic and happy and my TSH was 1.7 at age 14, still some fatigue but so much better then.

It was around age 15 that everything got worse.  Horrible fatigue, bad thinking, depression around age 16 and my TSH was 2.6 at the time.

Frustrating patients having to figure things out and doctors being so clueless.  At least back then and in my case anyway.

God bless.  

[compnet]

Just wondered, could the high TSH be considered subclinical hypothyroid especially considering symptoms?

[goolarra]

These are pretty hard to interpret without ranges, especially considering how old they are.  Both TSHs are in range (current range is 0.3-3.0), but 2.6 is a bit on the high side.  Everything else is too sketchy to comment on.

[compnet]

FTI - Free T4 Index of 2.3

[compnet]

Is it .3 to 3 for TSH?  Is that 2.6 TSH considered borderline or low/high normal?