IzumiCurtis
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Hi all,
I'm brand new here. Just posted an intro post over in the introduction section. I'd like to ask for some help interpreting my labs. I know there are a lot of "interprey my labs" posts here but I haven't seen anything quite like mine and I'm hoping someone will have some input as to what could be going on.
A list of my symptoms and some of my background health info is in my intro post.
My Stats
I'm 29 yrs old, 5'4", female, currently 118lbs (I'm usually around 109 and this is the most I've ever weighed in my life).
My diet
Not currently strictly Peating.
I wake up too late for breakfast (I need 10-12 hours of sleep to not feel useless all day) so I just have a cup of coffee with whole milk, a glass of OJ, then go to lunch.
I'll have rice or potatoes with chicken or grass fed beef for lunch with a glass of milk or a cane sugar root beer or an Izzy.
Snacks are fruit, surf-sweets organic gummy bears, Hagen Daz a couple times a week (vanilla or chocolate), more juice with great lakes gelatin.
For dinner I'll have the same rice or potatoes with chicken or beef.
I can't tolerate a ton of milk yet, but I'm trying to get a glass a day plus some cheese or other dairy product. Haven't been doing carrot salad.
Taking aspirin almost daily, from 650mg - 1300 mg a day.
Trying to avoid tons of PUFA (no fried food or foods that contain vegetable oils) but not being as strict as I could be.
I'm gluten intolerant so never eat bread or anything with gluten in it. I do eat gluten free pizza sometimes, lately more than I should. Maybe 2 or 3 times a week for lunch instead of the lunch listed above.
I was eating liver a couple times a week, but haven't in a while. Was eating shellfish once a week, haven't done that in a while either.
I'm probably not eating enough. I'm gaining weight like crazy lately (I'm not pregnant) and I have really bad cholesterol so I get worried about gaining more weight or eating a lot more food.
I haven't been tested for anything until now. Just had my first thyroid blood work done, and surprisingly it looks strangely good (I think?):
Didn't have reverse T3 checked, and didn't have any antibodies for Hashis checked.
My Dr is treating based on symptoms instead of the #s, and I just started on 1/4 grain of Armour yesterday.
Other blood work:
Cholesterol -
Other:
Anyone have any ideas why my thyroid labs look normal, but I still have all these symptoms? Thankfully my Dr is trying out a quarter grain of Armour to see if my symptoms improve, but I'm still confused as to what would make my labs look like this. Doesn't look like any of the typical hypothyroid "patterns" I've read about.
Thank you for your help!!
I'm brand new here. Just posted an intro post over in the introduction section. I'd like to ask for some help interpreting my labs. I know there are a lot of "interprey my labs" posts here but I haven't seen anything quite like mine and I'm hoping someone will have some input as to what could be going on.
A list of my symptoms and some of my background health info is in my intro post.
My Stats
I'm 29 yrs old, 5'4", female, currently 118lbs (I'm usually around 109 and this is the most I've ever weighed in my life).
My diet
Not currently strictly Peating.
I wake up too late for breakfast (I need 10-12 hours of sleep to not feel useless all day) so I just have a cup of coffee with whole milk, a glass of OJ, then go to lunch.
I'll have rice or potatoes with chicken or grass fed beef for lunch with a glass of milk or a cane sugar root beer or an Izzy.
Snacks are fruit, surf-sweets organic gummy bears, Hagen Daz a couple times a week (vanilla or chocolate), more juice with great lakes gelatin.
For dinner I'll have the same rice or potatoes with chicken or beef.
I can't tolerate a ton of milk yet, but I'm trying to get a glass a day plus some cheese or other dairy product. Haven't been doing carrot salad.
Taking aspirin almost daily, from 650mg - 1300 mg a day.
Trying to avoid tons of PUFA (no fried food or foods that contain vegetable oils) but not being as strict as I could be.
I'm gluten intolerant so never eat bread or anything with gluten in it. I do eat gluten free pizza sometimes, lately more than I should. Maybe 2 or 3 times a week for lunch instead of the lunch listed above.
I was eating liver a couple times a week, but haven't in a while. Was eating shellfish once a week, haven't done that in a while either.
I'm probably not eating enough. I'm gaining weight like crazy lately (I'm not pregnant) and I have really bad cholesterol so I get worried about gaining more weight or eating a lot more food.
I haven't been tested for anything until now. Just had my first thyroid blood work done, and surprisingly it looks strangely good (I think?):
- TSH- 1.23 (range= 0.35-4.94 iIU/mL)
- free T3 - 3.16 (range= 1.71-3.71 pg/mL)
- total T3 - 119 (range= 58-159 ng/dL)
- free T4 - 1.18 (range= 0.70 - 1.48 ng/dL)
- total T4 - 8.3 (range= 4.87 - 11.72 ug/dL)
- parathyroid - 18 (range= 15- 65 pg/mL)
Didn't have reverse T3 checked, and didn't have any antibodies for Hashis checked.
My Dr is treating based on symptoms instead of the #s, and I just started on 1/4 grain of Armour yesterday.
Other blood work:
Cholesterol -
- Total - 257
- Triglycerides - 189
- Total LDL - 155
- Total HDL - 55
- non-HDL cholesterol - 202
- LDL-P - 1589
Other:
- Sodium - 139
- Potasium - 3.7
- Chloride - 103
- Carbon Dioxide - 23
- total protien - 7.4
- albumin- 4.7
- Alkaline Phosphate- 41
- Ferritin- 20
- Magnesium - 2.2
- Vitamin D - 27 (range 30-98 ng/mL) - insufficiency
- Calcium - 10 (range 8.5-10.6mg/dL)
- Homocystine - 10.3 (this is high I think - they want it under 10.4)
- Hemogolbin - 15 (range 11.1-15.7 g/dL) this is high-ish
- Hematocrit - 45.7 (Range 33.0-45%) this is above range
- Prolactin -15.3 (range 5.18-26.53)
Anyone have any ideas why my thyroid labs look normal, but I still have all these symptoms? Thankfully my Dr is trying out a quarter grain of Armour to see if my symptoms improve, but I'm still confused as to what would make my labs look like this. Doesn't look like any of the typical hypothyroid "patterns" I've read about.
Thank you for your help!!