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Welcome to The Q&A with Elaine Moore. Registered members are invited to ask any question of Elaine Moore on autoimmune diseases, Graves' disease, other thyroid diseases and subconditions, laboratory work, traditional and complementary medicine, triggers and environmental influences, thyroid and immune disorders in pets and animals, and other relevant areas of inquiry.

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Questions are answered solely by Elaine Moore, a medical writer and clinical laboratory scientist, MT, CLS, with more than 30 years of experience in immunology. Moore has also authored and edited over a dozen books in the area of health sciences and is an editor for McFarland Publisher's Health Topics Series.


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 2/3/2012 4:57 PM  
 
Hi Jasmine, The RAI uptake and scan is no longer considered reliable or desirable. You'd be exposing your baby to radioiodine and possibly stimulating your thyroid gland. It does sound as though you had a transient episode of hyperthyroidism that may have been caused by postpartum thyroiditis o...
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 2/3/2012 4:49 PM  
 
Hi Lnc, I'd avoid the endo who recommended increasing your dose based on your TSH level. As you know, TSH stays low for a long time and you're considered euthyroid (normal thyroid function) as soon as FT4 falls into range. Good endos know that FT3 takes much longer to fall than FT4 and that the ...
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 1/31/2012 8:24 PM  
 
Hi Pinmobile, With a usual range of 0.8-1.8, your FT4 of 1.5 may not be high enough for you. Lowering the 2.5 mg dose would be the next step. If you have 5 mg pills and break them into 1/4ths, you could take 1.25 mg daily. This is what most people do. It's better to be on the same dose every day...
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 1/31/2012 12:02 AM  
 
Dear MamaToa, The low TSH along with elevated FT4 and FT3 results indicate hyperthyroidism. The scan can show if nodules are the cause and it can suggest Graves' disease. Thryoid antibody tests are used to confirm that the disorder is autoimmune and caused by Graves' disease. Either way, if you...
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 1/29/2012 11:15 PM  
 
Hi Amy, Your thyroid hormone levels are affected by the medications you're on. I'm assuming that you started anti-thyroid drugs and that the dose wasn't lowered when it should have been in June. This caused you to move into hypothyroidism. Your labs in September are the best as you want FT4 to b...
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