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it's within the ranges, nothing wrong with tyroid - even took a little iodine on the side to test if it does something - there is this test where you put iodine on your skin, and if it gets absorbed within 10 minutes, you're low on iodine - I'm not,

all the bloodwork looks normal except for cholesterol (cuz high fat low carb) - see cholesterol code for that

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Don't get just TSH checked, get a full thyroid panel. You can have normal TSH but still be low on free T3 and feel bad as a result.

Thyroids can intermittently fail, or have one of the glands fail and the other make up for it (for a while). TSH isn't quite sufficient to catch everything, and one test alone won't necessarily catch everything.

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