Beefcake
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If her TSH is still high after T4, I would think the liver is not successfully converting T4 to T3. (Either low selenium for deiodinase, low Vit D, fatty liver, etc) Therefore the hypothalamus still “sees” low T3 in the body and tells the pituitary to increase TSH. She may need to try cytomel or T3 direct. Should signal the hypothalamus that there’s enough T3 in the body and should lower TSH.
Free T4 was above reference range Free T3 was as high as it can get but still within range on lab test same time as her TSH was 16. So thats not true. The diet completely removed her TPO ak antibodies. And restored all her values.