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October 11th, 2009, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by bearbait View Post
My endo says that the free T3 & T4 numbers are more important than the TSH. I'm on an antithyroid medication, and the last time I went to see her she lowered the dosage because even though my TSH was still reading low, my T3 & T4 had both gone into the hypo range. She told me that basically she can't do anything to control my low TSH if it's going to effect the free T's. How I can have hypo T's and hyper TSH is beyond me, but whatever So I would say don't worry about the TSH as long as the free T's are good.
Ditto! What's most important is if your Free T3 and Free T4 #'s are in the high end of normal. Not just normal. The TSH doesn't matter if those are right.
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