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I realize that’s alot to read so let me give you guys the Cliff Notes version of the test results from what I can see:
From age 19-20
TSH is consitantly high- between 3 to 5.5
Both free T3 and free T4 are Mid to mid/upper range
No tests were done for total T3/T4
DHEA is at the bottom of the range
Fast forward to age 27-
TSH is still high (3.3 to 4.2)
I had total T3 and total T4 tested for the first time and they are both at the bottom of the range.
Free T4 is midrange
Free T3 is bottom/midrange
DHEA at bottom of the range
My comments- It seems that what is going on is that my pituitary is sending out high TSH because my thyroid gland isn’t putting out enough thyroid hormones. My body has tried to compensate for the low output of thyroid hormones by keeping thyroxine binding globulins low in order to free up as much T3/T4 as possible. Early on this worked ok and I was reaching mid/upper range levels of free T3/T4. Now that I’m older my thyroid gland is crapping out even more and is putting out even less total thyroid hormone so even with the reduced thyroid binding globulin levels I’m now only reaching low/midrange levels of free thyroid hormones.
As far as the low DHEA, I don’t know what is going on with that…..
Oh I forgot to mention that the main reason I had the recent bloodwork done was because I realized that I was consistently running a morning temperature of 96.2-96.4. Although later in the day it does go higher sometimes reaching about 98.4, maybe 98.6 if it’s hot out and I’ve been active shortly before.
