My mother has mild hypothyroidism. She recently had a bone marrow test that was inconclusive. This was the result from the lab: 3% t-cell counts, normal TSH, and normal FT4 and FT3. This is an anemia hypothyroidism and I have been seeing symptoms of low TSH for a couple of months now. I take both thyroxine and calcium.
Anemia hypothyroidism is an autoimmune disease that can result in both the inability to produce TSH and/or the inability to produce T4. People who do not produce enough TSH can experience depression, memory loss, and lethargy, and those who are unable to produce enough T4 can suffer from irritability, anxiety, and insomnia.
There are a few ways that people can be affected by anemia hypothyroidism, but I don’t really want you to worry about that until you’re experiencing the symptoms. The most common symptoms are fatigue, depression, and lethargy. One of the most common tests you can go through is a TSH blood test, which is just a quick way to check for thyroid function. Once you find out that you are truly anemic, you may be able to take additional thyroid medication.
According to the Mayo Clinic, anemia hypothyroidism can occur in people with certain medications as well as genetic disorders. There are also a variety of supplements that can help your thyroid function, including those that are naturally thyroid stimulating.
Well it looks like you’ll have to take T3 and T4 in order to have T4-depleting activity. This is because T4 is made from T3, which is a diuretic. As such, if your T4 drops, those T3 levels will drop as well. The way that I see it, there is no magic pill that causes your T4 to drop.
There’s a lot of misinformation out there about thyroid disease, so I wanted to clear up some misconceptions in this particular category. One of the biggest misconceptions is that you can’t treat hypothyroidism with thyroid hormones. In fact, that’s exactly what most hypothyroid patients do, as well as a huge majority of people with hypothyroidism that don’t have medications to treat it. The other misconception is that T3 is naturally thyroid stimulating and T4 is naturally thyroid decreasing.
This is a common misconception. The thyroid gland is a butterfly gland that produces large quantities of T3 and T4, but when they’re not needed they are naturally inhibited in order to keep things from overgrowing and damaging the thyroid. The body naturally produces T3 as a byproduct of protein synthesis, and even though a patient with hypothyroidism has no symptoms it does have normal T3 levels.
The problem is that T3 is not usually regulated. The production of T3 is controlled by the body’s hypothalamus, and the hypothalamus is controlled by the pituitary gland. The two glands are responsible for producing the T3 and T4 hormones.
So the body naturally attempts to regulate T3 levels, but too little T3 can put the body at risk. One way the thyroid is regulated is by the pituitary. It is controlled by the hypothalamic pituitary gland which is located in the hypothalamus of the brain and is responsible for producing the thyroid hormones.