angelaalb

Hi!

I'm new at soulcysters...

I'm 26 yo and been living abroad (far from all family) from 6 months. Since then I didn't have my period, been feeling awful, gained a lot of weight (I've been thin all my life, could eat 3000 calories a day without problem) and losed a lot of hair.

Tired from suffering I did hormone testing and the results were:

TSH: 3.22
T3: 1.70
T4: 0,63
beta estradiol: 12
FSH: 0.91
LH: 0.10
progesterone: 0.5
testosterone: 0.5
DHEA: 49 (!!!!)

I'm obviouslly having PCOS (and started taking birth control pills a week ago), but is 3.2 too high for the TSH and 0.63 too low for T4? Could hypothyroidsm be also a cause for me feeling tired all day and have so much difficulty in losing weight?

Thank you...

prunepie

please go to www.thyroid.about.com to ask more questions and read tons of articles that will really be able to help you out more... and get the ranges of the results to go with the labs when you post your blood work thereso the members can give you more insight oxoxoj enn

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jennifer, 33years old
long island, new york
dxd 2001
searching for new therapies/meds for pcos
met/gluc not working as well..but on 1000mgxr
married on 9/28/06 to keith

nobimbo

Welcome to SC, Angela

Your TSH is a bit above the upper limit of the new lab ranges (which is 3). Most people feel best when their TSH is close to 1 (or below). TSH doesn't really have much to do with how your thyroid is functioning anyway; it's your free T3 and free T4 that are important in determining this. You didn't post your lab ranges, but if you have them see if your numbers are at least midway in your range. If not, they would be considered low (well you doc may not consider them low, but you would feel best at least in midway of the range). If the tests run were total T3 and T4 and not the free T's, then they aren't going to tell you much anyway (the total tests just tell you how much of the hormones are in your blood, but the free tests tell you how much your body is actually using).

I highly recommend you check out this very lengthy, informative thread from the lowcarbfriends board called "Thyroid Tests Are Normal? Are You Sure?":

http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/sh...threadid=71576

Linda

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dx pcos 1984, type II diabetes 2001, also hypertension
Met 2000mg since 2001, started Glucophage XR 4/22/04, then switched to Met ER 6/04; also: multi, Vit. C, Vit. E, B12/folic acid combo, fish oil & borage oil combo, garlic capsules, cinnamon, Vitex, calcium with magnesium/zinc, biotin, CoQ10, selenium,iron
Other meds: Verapamil and Altace(for blood pressure)
Started laser hair removal 7/29/03, completed 3/04 (it works!)
UAE for fibroid 3/24/03 and 3/16/04