Any thoughts on these numbers?

[drkelp]

About 6wks ago increased levothyroxine from 50 to 62.5ug

 

[Systemlord]

Testing reverse T3 is pointless, it’s biologically inactive.

 

[Seagal]

Some 'alternative' docs claim that reverse T3 competes with T3.
Anyway a bit pointless question about the numbers without symptoms.

 

[Systemlord]

My TSH is 0.45, any lower and I’d have hyperthyroidism. My fT3 is above midrange and rT3 elevated. My pituitary gland is slamming on the brakes by lowering TSH to keep fT3 from getting too high all while rT3 is elevated.

 

[drkelp]

So as long as ft3 is decent the rest is pointless?

 

[Systemlord]

So as long as ft3 is decent the rest is pointless?

And TSH, because if TSH was elevated to be indicating a problem, like not enough fT3 getting into your cells. If this was the case, TSH would be elevated.

You don’t even have sub clinical hypothyroidism, which would be elevated TSH and normal thyroid hormones.

That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t recommend a dosage increase on your thyroid hormone.

 

[Systemlord]

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[drkelp]

Again, I have recently increased to 62.5ug after using 50 for many years. It seems I may want to take that higher. Trying to get a feel for what an increase would do.