Your number is 2000????? Holy Moly!!!

I can't wait to hear what the experts on these boards have to say about that!!!


That's an amazing number

Melody

i think that is very good. it shows that it is getting into your blood stream. 1000mcg a day should be enough from now on. a level of 2000 isnt going to hurt you.

It shows that what you are taking is getting to your blood just fine. That means that you do not malabsorb severely. You may or may not eventually.

It also shows that the test measured a whole lot of B12 in the blood that had not been stored and would go out with the urine. Unless the test is done at least a few days after B12 is stopped, the test result is extra skewed.

I would take the methylcobalamin.

rose

Wow! I had a dental phobia for years! It was a childhood dentist that caused it. Even so I still had regular dental care. I found out I have a genetic thing, my B-mom and brother both lost their teeth before they were 30. I kept mine til I was about 35. Then I made an appt with an oral surgeon, had them put me out and had them all pulled at the same time. *shudder* I used to have nightmares about going to the dentist. I found a dentist or two over the years in different places I lived that understood my fear. I only ever went, as an adult, when I *had* to.

Well, I know exactly why I am phobic. When I was five, my mother brought me with her to the dentist when she had all her teeth pulled. She had pyorhea (sorry for spelling) and they all had to come out. She was not even 40 years old. And why on earth she took a 5 year old kid with her is beyond me.

I will never ever forget her coming out of the dentist's office and we were all in the waiting room and they had cauterized her gums. She took her arm and she started banging on the walls of the waiting room. She banged like that for a long long time. I was sitting on a brown bench looking up at her banging on the walls, she was in so much pain.

I will always be the little girl sitting on that brown bench and that was 55 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. When I told my phobia dentist he said "oh my god, you poor thing"."You have post traumatic stress disorder". At leas he understood. Many dentist shame you and don't have compassion.

But if you try hard, you can find a "good guy" like I did.

regards,
Melody

thyroid
 

Well, Frank said my TSH was 3.9 and it should be below 5 and it was so I'm fine (that's what he said).
The T3 and the T4 were perfectly normal (that's when he said if they weren't then they would be worried about Hashimoto's. He said my T3 and T4 were perfectly fine.

Okay, I just got out my previous blood tests.

Here we go:

4/07 3.9 (I added this)
12/06 - 3.19
1/18/05 - 3.80
3/07/03 - 2.97

Okay, Mel, I'm going to confuse you a bit. Ready?
The numbers that the labs say are normal are not quite correct. They are based upon what numbers are found in people who are seriously hypothyroid. The TSH for each person is pretty set, like we have a thermostat all our own. And we each are normally somewhere on the range where we feel good. Most people feel good, really good, healthy good, when their TSH is under 2.5. Yup, true. They might not be really really sick until the TSH is much higher. The most important thing is to compare your numbers as you age.Lots of women get hypothyroid as they age (I give myself away here---yes, I've aged!), and MANY never have a TSH out of the "normal" range. (Me here, too).

If I were you, I'd make sure the T3 that was done is the FREE T3, not the standard T3, and the same with T4.

If those numbers are well within the normal range, and not low normal, you might want to nudge your doctor to check you every 6 months or so. Because it's really really likely that at some point you will need thyroid replacement, and it's better to find that out before you're really sick, depressed, slowed down, with neuropathy, carpal tunnel, etc.

Capeche? G'night and sweet dreams.

Liza.

It was the Free T3 and the Free T4. I remember because I didn't know what Frank was saying and I asked him "Are you saying the word Free?" and he said "yes, it's called Free T3 and Free T4.

Now I have no idea what the hell Free is. but I'm FREEEEEEEE.

lol

And I will definitely bring this up with Dr. Fred.

And you can confuse me all you want. If it werent for you guys on the board, and me finding Dr. Theirl and me finding out about Methyl B-12, well where would we be???

Melody