NO libido & other sympts > FULL LAB results > thoughts?

[Dr JIM]

At a boy it's the old "what do those doctors know anyway, it's my life" response.

Works every time, but unfortunately there are consequences to being FOOLISH, but don't suggest recourses of this nature are based on EVIDENCE, since others may unknowingly follow your folly.

 

[JackTorrance]

Really so "midrange" T-3/T-4" values are concocted nonsense some statistician plucked out of thin air as being "NORMAL", even though according to YOU they are in fact ABNORMAL, LMAO

That being said, I suppose you can cite evidence based literature to support this comment, or perhaps it's based on your vast clinical experience evaluating and treating ONE patient, YOU, with self diagnosed thyroid dysfunction.

Absolutely NUTS!

Hey,

I also had pretty low-ish Free T4 on the first test I took.

I got 11.5 pmol/L (bottom is 9, top 19) and 2.45 mu/L TSH. Both in range.

I requested a repeat and the next three thyroid tests I took all came back with TSH out of range, up to 7.60 mu/L. None of the doctors I've seen understand why to be honest, even endocrinologists have just speculated it's "interesting" that I had tests three days apart with TSH which varied from 7.6 to 5.12 in three days (third test was taken a few months after the second then repeated a few days later coincidentally as I was given more blood tests). Suggested I "may have autoimmunity despite negative antibodies and no sign of Hashi's on the ultrasound" but nobody really knows.

I was given a trial of levothyroxine, but the dosage is retardedly low, like 25 mcg.

I feel really failed by healthcare in the UK to be honest. They have not given me tests for anything else which could affect thyroid function... I know there are deficiencies which can affect thyroid function and other medical conditions which can also do this, my body temp, pulse, TSH etc. are all fluctuating like mad and nobody seems to know why, I get skipped beats, random strong heartbeats that knock the wind out of me, but these things haven't been explained to me or explored sadly. I don't feel better on levothyroxine, I still feel unwell, I still get waves of weird cardiac/breathing/temperature/energy level symptoms and half of my face is sagging with raised lymph nodes around my jaw and neck for years which have also not been explored beyond ultrasound which can't prove anything. I understand they are trying to help but SOMEONE should know what's happening to me.

It's no surprise that people like OP have no faith in UK doctors.

 

[phatmike]

A NHS endo? What's that?

I assume you're referring to the sub-speciality of internal medicine which confines the curriculum and education of fellows to Non-Hormonal System components of endocrinology?

NHS is the national health service over here in the United Kingdom.

 

[foreveryoung]

what are those ages with question marks beside your testosterone test results?

 

[toolman]

NHS is the national health service over here in the United Kingdom.

Thanks to Obama, we are well on our way to having a screwed up healthcare system as well so we will be able to relate. I so hope anyone but Hillary wins.