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TSH, FT3  and FT4 Test Results for Graves’ Disease and Hyperthyroidism

If you just left the doctor’s office with a piece of paper in your hand, given by your doctor with the following words “Your tests are abnormal- you may have Graves’ Disease or Hyperthyroidism- you probably have a lot of questions in your head. No more explanations. Doctors don’t have time to explain what is normal, what is abnormal – just because they have scheduled about 15 to 20 patients per day and they can not afford any extra time for you and your health problems.

 Next patient in line please..

 I personally can understand your frustration, you helplessness and your despair. Because I have been there and I felt exactly the same way. I started to look for more information everywhere to find out what is a “normal test” and how do I achieve this “normal results”- because I wanted to feel better, healthy and without Graves’ disease.

TSH testing is used to:

• diagnose a thyroid disorder in a person with symptoms,

• screen newborns for an underactive thyroid,

• monitor thyroid replacement therapy in people with hypothyroidism

• diagnose and monitor female infertility problems,

• help evaluate the function of the pituitary gland (occasionally), and

• screen adults for thyroid disorders as recommended by some organizations, such as the American Thyroid Association.

In late 2002, the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (NACB) issued new guidelines for the diagnosis and monitoring of thyroid disease. In the guidelines, the NACB reported that the current TSH reference range -- which usually runs from approximately 0.5 to 5.5 -- may be too wide and actually may include people with thyroid disease. When more sensitive screening was done, which excluded people with thyroid disease, 95 percent of the population tested actually had a TSH level between 0.4 and 2.5.

The normal ranges of your thyroid test should be as follows; however different laboratories have different ways of measuring. Consult your doctor for a better understanding of your tests. Blood tests to measure TSH, T4 and T3 are readily available and widely used. The best way to initially test thyroid function is to measure the TSH level in a blood sample. 

 Again, check with your laboratory, since their measuring units may differ from the above. To better understand your tests click here: NEXT>>>>>>

About the author: Svetla Bankova is an author of "Life Manual for Graves' Disease and Hyperthyroidism"- a book, based not only  on her experience as a former Graves' Disease patient but also her research as a psychologist. This is  only book that explains step by step how and why Graves' Disease came to your life, the cause and specific steps for alternative treatment of Graves' disease. The book provides also specific steps how to treat Thyroid Eye Disease, numerous practical exercises, recipes for herbal compresses, how to use flax seed oil and many other supplements that will improve your eyes tremendously.

...She avoided an eye surgery and saw improvement in just 2 1/2 weeks! Hi Svetla, I just wanted to let you know that I have been taking the flax seed oil and using my eye drops for about 2 1/2 weeks now and I can already tell a difference -I do not have all of the pain in my eyes that I was having and I can tell by touch that my eyes are not protruding as much.   I am going to the eye doctor next week.  I am anxious to see how much my measurements have improved, because I know they have.  I just wanted to say thanks for your information, because I was not looking forward to that horrible sounding eye surgery. Thanks, Stacy P.

I believe that once your symptoms are under control and your test are in normal range your eyes will start to improve. So besides treating the symptoms I would recommend treating the cause of Graves’ Disease as well.

Svetla Bankova

CTACC, MBA in Counseling Psychology,

former Graves' Disease patient