Going Rogue, Like Sarah Palin...Kind Of

Today I got some lab results in the mail. As I am currently fatigued (I got up at 4 am for no apparent reason) and exhausted, it seems worse than it might otherwise.

My TSH levels are high right now, at 13.250, normal should be somewhere around 2.0. So it seems I have swung from one extreme to the other. I suppose that's not really surprising. If I expect my body to fix itself I think it will take some time, a little trial and error. I don't think it will kick back into gear this quickly. It's been a month since I've had any medications...

Now for the weird part. All of my other hormone levels are normal.

And the weirder part-my TPO levels (the level of antibodies against some sort of thyroid enzyme...) are lower than they ever have been. When I first took a TPO test back in October 2010ish, they were 85. Below 35 is normal. Even more months after my pregnancy, it was at 56. Lower, but still too high.

Normally doctors do this test once and never do it again because they think it doesn't indicate anything. If you have the antibody, you will always have the antibody. But I don't have an abnormal level of these anymore. I spent quite awhile trying to find someone else online with this phenomenon, but couldn't. "Normal hormone levels, normal TPO (but previously high), and high TSH..." Apparently I'm the only one.

I found that sometimes weird hormone levels can be associated with pituitary problems, like non-cancerous tumors. But usually it seems like other hormone levels would also be messed up, so I'm hopeful that this isn't the case with me. Some weirdo tumors can secrete hormones. Sometimes there's even something called 'heterophilic antibodies" that can skew some blood tests.

I have a phone call into CAG, but I don't know what to do. A traditional M.D. would tell me to take Levothyroxine. I don't think I will. I have officially gone rogue.

My husband and I are thinking instead of taking something...I will just...wait. This goes against my nature. All of my other hormone levels are normal, whose to say that my TSH won't level out? Whose to say that I'm not still vascillating back and forth from hyper to hypo? Unless I have a blood test every hour, it's impossible to tell.