Thyroid Labs are back can i get some help?

EndGame, that's important information you've just added. 

A gluten free, Organic paleo style diet is the preferred diet for thyroid. Absolutely no cheating in the gluten, as it triggers the immune system. Salad dressing is loaded with preservatives, so make your own if you aren't already.

Also, consider where you live, as toxicity plays a huge role. If you live in a highly populated industrial area, chances are there are tons of contaminants in the environment. Mercury and bromine exposure as well as radiation can cause thyroid disease. Detoxing is very helpful for these. 

 I'm not in any way suggesting you don't have a thyroid problem, just that you pretty much want to do everything you can before resorting to thyroid medications.

Also, you say you show high reverse T3? Good job getting that checked! High rT3 can be caused by mercury.  Super green and chlorophyll can help with this.

It's likely you have more than one thing going on, which is why it's so difficult to pinpoint. Try looking for multiple causes. I'd start by looking at mercury and neck injury.

Thanks for posting your labs. You seem to have plenty Free T4 and free T3, but lower totals.  This could indicate a conversion issue which is dependent on large part on liver and gut health.  The other factor here is the immune system. If you have antibodies, this could be a factor. 

Your TSH is on the low end. When TSH is high, it indicates a problem.  When pituitary gland is not sensing low thyroxin, it is not producing  high TSH. This is good for you, but not for diagnoses.

You may have to shop around for a good endocrinologist, possibly an immunologist or infectious disease specialist. Since these are costly and time consuming, as well as difficult to get a referral, you'll want to do more research. I can tell you from experience that forking out tons of money to practitioners is a dead end unless you have endless funds. 

I'm hoping you're at least starting to get a sense for a direction to proceed.

Hi Cathy, the questions you pose can be answered by applying some basic biology and chemistry principles. 

Flouride, a compound of fluorine... frlourine, chlorine, bromine, iodine are all in the same class of elements on the periodic table, meaning the all have the same reaction capability with different electromagnetic strengths. That means they basically will all result in the same types of reactions, but their bonding strength varies.  So all of these elements of ingested could potentially form the same thyroxin structure as with iodine, but they don't work the same. We know that bromine exposure can cause thyroid disease. Fluorine though less harmful in the forms we encounter, is just as likely a culprit. Chlorine is used throughout the body for many different reaction in the form of table salt, NaCl, which is harmless because the body needs thus substance for everyday functioning. That means the body has mechanisms of transforming clroeone from table salt very easily.

Now, when you get into manufactured/ industrial chemicals, these differ from naturally occurring compounds and while table salt is harmless, chlorine, or bleach, is not. Bromine is highly toxic in any forms we encounter. Fluorine is debatable with the argument that we need it for teeth strengthening, while it was used in Nazi Germany to sedate prisoners.

Because all three have the same reaction capability, they can all interfere with the reactions of the others on the body. For example, it's possible that they could interfere with sodium channel function, for example, which would be. Huge problem since every cell in the body has sodium ion channels. The idea is that a small amount if interferance can be tolerated, but a large variation from natural amounts would result in health problems. This is why industrially produced chemicals are so fangeroys: they contain much higher amounts of certain elements  than what occurs in nature. And even when naturally occurring, they can be toxic.

I personally have experience with exposure to industrial bromine compounds. I can tell you without a doubt that exposure causes thyroid disease. 

I was also a swimmer for many years and can tell you that the girls on my swim team seemed to have an unusually high rate of excess fat, given the amount of exercise.  And also, many had thyroid disease later in life. One girl on my swim team developed severe thyroid disease at 15 years old, that I know of. I always suspected the chlorine exposure may have contributed, as back then, it was nearly unheard of for kids to develop thyroid disease. So I've always been a little suspicious of chlorine as a contributing factor to thyroid disease. Because of my experience with both bromine and chlorine, I certainly limit my exposure to fluorine as well, given my advanced thyroid disease.

This is easily explained by basic biology.

We have our main lymph drainage points located in the neck, and below the thyroid. We have the highest concentration of lymph gland located in the beck area, basically surrounding the thyroid. Basic biology theory of structure and function would indicate that the proximity of the thyroid to the main points in the immune system, define them as intimately related. I would even guess that the thyroid gland regulates the immune system and vice versa. So not a stretch for immune and thyroid health to be intertwined.

Gut health is also very related, given the proximity of the thyroid, and the fact the the gut lining is mucus membrane. All mucosal tissues are part of the immune system, as they function to encapsulate foreign substances so they can be surrounded and disposed of by the body. 

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Catherine... yes, you are correct that there is a large cluster of lymph nodes in the neck area, but that does not indicate that the thyroid controls the immune system.. Actually, only a few of those lymph nodes actually drain the thyroid.  They are the prelaryngeal lymph nodes (located just above the isthmus), the pretracheal and paratracheal lymph nodes.  Then those lymph nodes drain into the superior deep and the inferior deep lymph nodes, where every other lymph node in the neck drains to too.  All the parts of the head.. ears, mouth, nose, scalp, ext.  Actually the mouth has more lymph nodes that it drains into then the thyroid. That doesn't mean that it controls our immune system.  Just because a picture shows a lot of lymph nodes in the neck area, doesn't mean they all drain the thyroid..  because they don't.  I actually agree with Cathy.. It is already known and proven that the gut microbs that reside in the gastrointestinal tract, provides essential health benefits to its host, particularly by regulating immune homeostasis. Moreover, it has recently become obvious that alterations of these gut microb communities, can cause immune dysregulation, leading to autoimmune disorders...  So.. eating healthy, perhaps taking a good probiotic, getting the right vitamins and minerals, and keeping the gut healthy, will make for a stronger immune system.  Yes.. a thyroid disorder can help contribute to a lowered immune system, through it's actions and effects on the body, but just not directly...