Wellness

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Hello, LuckyPeach. I feel very guilty asking you for health advice, when you have had such terrible problems yourself, with pneumonia. I trust that you are all better, with no ill effects?

Here I am a year after you tried to help me with what to demand from my endo doctor. I have not lost any weight, am still on Armour, and am ready to about give up. I do not see weight loss in my future, as I have been going to the doctor and nothing has changed. Below are my blood test results from Feb. I go to see the nurse practitioner in mid April. I want to go armed with bear this time, as I am becomming very weary of this whole thing. I am now on 120 mg of Armour, which I take in the AM. I usually have coffee right after taking it and read on Mary Shomons site that this is not good. So now I am setting my alarm to take the Armour 1-2 hrs before coffee. Here are my recent test results:

I am posting some new lab results. My doctor typically orders tests, and when the test results come back to his office, he looks at them (or has a nurse practitioner look at them) and then waits until your next appt to go over the results. I have results from last week and two weeks bef...ore that- and I will not have an office appt. unt...il April.
Test from 2/8/11- TSH , Third Generation, result 2.85 -Range 0.40-4.50 mIU/L
-T4, Free, result 1.0- Range 0.8-1.8 NG/DL
-T3, Free, result 4.2-Range 2.3-4.2 PG/ML
Test from2/28/11- Cortisol, Total, Serum, result 2.1 L (I assume this is an L for low?)- Range-(not given) MCG/DL

I received no call from the doctor's office and have no idea how to read these or what to think.

I asked my endo doctor about reverse T3 testing and he poo hooed it. Do you know of any information that I could print to revisit the subject with him again? Also, I am going to ask for the AM saliva cortisol tests. When I ask him about adrenal problems, he keeps ordering the dexamethasone suppression test. But as I understand it, that just tell him if I have Cushings.

I feel that I have adrenal fatique symptoms: abdominal fat (I never have had before), tiredness, low stress tolerance, craving sweets, and difficulty concentrating. I also feel that my blood pressure problems are thyroid related. Recently, I was reading about aldosterone, and how it keeps your water/salt balance in the body. I retain water terribly in my legs and am on a new blood pressure medicene with a diuretic. My endo did contacty my internal medicene doctor and recommend that I go on another blood pressure med that would not block the armour. I have been taking that for about a week. And, as we discussed last year, I take a cholesterol medicene, too.

Do you have any ideas about what my next move should be?

PS-My husband went about a year ago to the Cleveland Clinic for the thyroid nodules and they did determine that it was not cancer. He had a check up today with the endo doctor here and the nodules are shrinking without being treated. That was good news.

Sorry to dump on you like this, LuckyPeach. But I have posted on Mary Shomons facebook page and I keep getting directed to her one on one coaching, and I cannot afford that.