23 year old female with symptoms and "normal" results...

Sorry I should mention, my GP (and to be honest, all the GPs I have seen so far is unwilling to re-test TSH, T3, T4, etc. as it would just be a wate of time.

I'm also being refused a referral to an endocrinologist, and as I have said in my post, I cannot see one privately without this.

She did suggest seeing a neurologist though, and I think I'm going to be referred for that, but I'm not ntirely sure?

Hi, I know exactly what your talking about! I had the same problem with the test results for over a 2year period. ..then finally I was diagnosed with are immune thyroiditis and went to an endocrinologist and he told me that there was nothing wrong with me okay so I go back to my regular doctor he referred me to a surgeon come to find out they did a scan on my throat that I had to take an iodine pill and it did ultrasound and a scan and that showed that it was hi then dropped a goal and really low and the ultrasound showed that I had several nodules and two other things wrong with my thyroid and they end up removing it June 16th of this year currently I've been on 5 different types of medication trying to get the balance right so my point of this is to not give up sooner or later the test results are going to show something. You can put yourself on it's an all natural thyroid medication till I can find out what's going on. Did they do an ultrasound or a thyroid scan what you have to take an iodine pill and then they do a scan of the throat and of your knee because that will tell a lot it'll show that there's something wrong or not better than the blood test. Did you have any other test done besides blood work?

Hard to understand refusal to refer to an endocrinologist. Here in Canada it's a no brainer. I would keep pushing anyway. The truth is, I am afraid, that medical science has no f***n clue about this stuff,

All of you results are normal...but normal results can be questioned.

Thyroid Stimulating Hormore, a hormone released by the pituary gland signaling the thyroid to react.

I am giving you the following as a learning tool...it is admittedly confusing, but that is the way thyroid is.

We are a society that wants everything at warp speed...thyroid is ploddingly slow.

If I make a change in thyroid medication today, my blood will not show the full results of that change for 6 weeks. It is preferred to gradually increase every 6 weeks because if you overshoot optimum, the symptoms of hyper are going to be just as troubling as those of hypo are. So once T4 and TSH were where my endocrinologist wanted them, she increased T3 only. Think radio station, you have reception... and static. So you fine tune the reception with T3 and lose the static.

Pertaining to those patients on Levothyroxine-Synthroid (T4), about half of those patients will feel great improvement if their T3 is about 75% of normal range, for me that level is about 3.7.

T4 (Thyroxine), named for it's 4 iodine atoms, maintains a relatively stable blood level and is therefore termed long acting.

T3 (Triiodothyronine), named for it's 3 iodine atoms, fluctuates and is therefore termed short acting.

Let us ingest T4 (Thyroxine, brand name Levothyroxine-Synthroid ) Through chemical reaction, our body takes in T4 and converts the T4 into T3 (Triiodothyronine) through chemical reaction. In other words, our body takes 4 iodine atoms and converts the 4 iodine atoms into a new compound with only 3 iodine atoms.

So from a strick biological & chemical viewpoint, many say if I can use one chemical compound (T4) to make the other chemical compound (T3) in the body, I only need to administer the T4.

BUT many studies have shown that about half of the patients on T4 feel better taking both T4 and T3.

NEWS FLASH

Armour's Thyroid versus Synthroid...the mystery revealed.

One grain of ARMOUR'S THYROID is 60 mg.

Each 60 mg of ARMOUR'S THYROID contains .038 mg (or 38 mcg) of T4

AND each 60 mg of ARMOUR'S THYROID contains 9 mcg of T3 , plus unmeasured amounts of T2, T1 and calcitonin.

SYNTHROID is all T4

which explains why the addition of CYTOMEL (which is all T3) makes fifty percent or so of SYNTHROID users feel so much better.

Remember T3 is a short half life which is why T4 is prescribed as the backbone of treatment...some of us do not effectively metabolize T4 into T3. For these individuals, supplemental T3 should be considered.