[Anonymous March 28, 1997 at 2:46 pm Post count: 93172]

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to Steve

What a great country we live in, even the provinces can’t use the same scales. I can assure you that these numbers have been given to me by no less than five doctors, so I presume for Manitoba they are correct. They certainly reflect how I feel. When I was first diagnosed in March 1995, my free T4 was 53. My doctor was horified. There had been no warning at all, one minute I was teaching, the next being helped out of the classroom. They did not think it was Graves’. No antibodies. It took 12 weeks of large doses of PTU to get me into the normal range. I did not have an uptake test done until last June when it was just above normal at 21%. Last year when I felt awful the freeT4 was 14 and the TSH 2. The doctor loved this because as he told me it was smack in the middle of normal. The fact that I felt bad didn’t phase him. I assume from your surprise that Ontario numbers are different. One wonders how we can compare anything, if labs are using different scales. I was shown the lab sheets yesterday: T4 14 TSH 0,1. The TSH hasn’t moved. That is what we’re waiting for. As long as it stays low you are considered sub-clinical hyper!

Brenda

Thanks
Brenda

Brenda

[Anonymous March 28, 1997 at 3:40 pm Post count: 93172]

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that doesn’t seem right tsh > 0.35
t3 < 5.3
t4 <23

this is how my lab does it in cold country

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