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| On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:33:13 GMT, "Mark" <nob...@home.here> said:
|
| >What do you mean by 'how suppressed they like
| >to keep patients ' ?
|
| "Normal" TSH levels should be between *about* 0.5 and 2. Sometimes
| some people do better with enough replacement hormone to keep that
| suppressed to below 0.5. Please someone with post-cancer experience
| help me, as I'm not sure -- don't folks who've had cancer often need
| to stay suppressed, or lower than that?

I don't know about that, my thyroid was killed by RAI in August last year.
I was only given one of the homrones that it produced - just T4.  I do
better myself at a TSH level .2 myself - problem is my T3 is very very low -
so I'm going to a new doctor tomorrow to get put on Armour.

I feel it's very important that if a complete gland/organ is removed from
your body, that it should be replaced/supplemented as completely as
possible.  Therefore, in my opinion, removing someone's thryoid and only
giving that person T4 is like removing a man's heart and only giving him 2
valves back to work with.

Jo

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