Positive Things for Thursday

[tamaranth]

1. Appointment with GP much better* than expected. (Given how worked up I'd got myself about it, it could hardly have been worse ...)
2. A series of empty cashpoints meant a nice wander around Horsham in the sunshine this morning. Werk? Pah.
3. Limits of sunburn / suntan more or less match neckline of frock purchased for annual company party, tomorrow.

*The blood tests showed everything OK except for thyroid function. Further tests needed to establish whether temporary or ongoing, but either way it could well explain the way I'm feeling ... and it's treatable.

Comments

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

one of them was 9.5 (fairly sure) and the other, the one that should have been going up, 2.5 or 4.5 (less sure).

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

That would be T4 9.5 and TSH 4.5, I think. Definitely consistent with early stages of hypothyroid in that case. But TSH = 5 used to be the old maximum - 2.5 is near new maximum 'normal'.

Your GP should be able to give you a print-out of your test results. Ideally, you need to know both the measurement units, and the 'reference range' for the laboratory which did the tests. Do ask :-)