I need some help please intepretating my thyroid lab results:
Free T3 2.18 ug/l (2.00-4.40)
Free T4 8.7 ug/l (6.1-11.20)
TSH 2.740 mUl/l (.40-3.50)
Vitamin B12 678pg/ml
Folates 15.42 ng/ml
Sodium 135 (136-145)
Ferritine 46 ng/ml
My hypothyroidism symptoms have never gone away, but now my symptoms are worse than ever!!! I am very fatigued. I have been severely bloated for 2 months now. I have joint pain in my hands, headaches, 12 kilo weight gain in last 2 years and I have had severe hair loss in the last 4 years, etc.
I have gone to an general doctors and endos in Spain and now France... and all have said I am in the normal ranges.
I do not feel NORMAL. What is my problem?? I have been taking 75mg of Eutirox (Spanish version of synthyoid or T4). Now I am in France, and my T4 medicine has been changed to Levothyrox...the same thing. However, the endo kept saying I was normal!!
I need an educated guess as to what my problem is??? so I can try and find an endo who will treat my symptoms and not tell me I'm normal. Or maybe I need to try a Naturopath or Chinese Medicine doctor instead??
Desperate for opinions??
i fully know how you feel its a hard road no matter how much weight you want or need to lose.
you know what they say, "good things take time"
Thank you very much for your reply. It is really helpful and you are right on. Out of my frustration, I went in for a check-up and they told me the same thing. It was stressed that I need to give it time...even up to 6 months to drop the weight. So I am sticking with it and crossing my fingers that it will work. I have just never done this type of diet before so it is hard for me to comprehend that the weight just comes off. I always thought the weight would only come off, if you really worked out. Here´s to the New Year and less weight, ha, ha!!!
Thanks for your helpful input!! ¨)
you are doing nothing wrong. 2.2 kg in 4 weeks is a good healthy rate to loose weight.
when i started my diet very similar to yours, i too thought i would lose weight a lot faster because i was working so hard. but if you ask any doctor they will tell you your doing good.
be proud of yourself and keep up the great work