Questions??? NEED ANSWERS

[Hol739]

I recently had my TSH tested and it was 4.1 is that normal??? I'm going today for more testing they are testing me for TSH, Free t3, free t4 what does that all mean? I'm starting to feel alittle better, I'm not getting so restless and feeling so down, I was getting heart palpations very bad as to where it was sending me to the hospital because my heart rate would get up to 158....!!!!! :( Thank goodness I'm feeling better, I'm scared though because my throat is sore today, it's the first day I've noticed it being really sore it's even sore to touch....!! Could this be anything????? I could even have a sore throat because my throat has been very scratchy...!!! Also what about taking prenatal meds??? When should I take them? And would they interfer?? I'm trying to have a baby, I'm only 27 and I'm so ready to start a family...!!!!!  Any answers would be so helpful, I'm so new to this HYPO stuff, I don't know much about it but reading everything myself...!!!!!


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[gimel]

Your TSH reading of 4.1 is within the old range of .5-5.0; however, it is significantly above the newly corrected range of .3-3.0.   Along with symptoms of hypo thyroidism, this would usually be treated with medication to bring down your TSH and get your free T3 into the proper level.  This assumes, of course, that the additional testing shows that your free T4 and T3 are not where they should be.  If you want to do some reading about free T3, here is a good site.

http://thyroid.about.com/cs/testsforthyroid/a/freet3.htm

Let us know how your further testing comes out.  

[LittleEd]

4.1 sounds normal to me for the TSH. My "papers" suggest that 0.40 - 4.50 is OK.

The three Ts are different thyroid hormones. Some go up while others go down. Maybe you'll end up like me--and have to spend a couple years with different docs before you find out what's wrong.