Post thyrogen injections result

This is a really great result.

The two thyrogen injections work to stimulate any thyroid cells still in your body to produce thyroglobulin. It's a way of exaggerating behaviour or such cells and enhancing the sensitivity of the blood test by over-stimulating thyroid cells to do their thing (in this case, making thyroglobulin).

It's a similar effect to going severely hypo (and many of us who've been here a LONG time remember having to do a process of up to 6 weeks weaning from T4 to T3 and then on to nothing in order to get the same effect).

A result of 0.6 is really good. The lower the better. Under 'unstimulated' conditions, your Tg would be way lower than that.

You are 'biochemically incomplete' because you don't have a thyroid gland. Not a nice way of putting it, but factually correct. 

Hi babaral,

Thank you for replying. Im really glad it means.good.news.but its the way they worded the letter. Saying "sadly he's in the categorie of a biochemical incomplete patient" why use the word "sadly"? Got me. In a a right state.

Take care and stay safe 

Honestly, sometimes you have to wonder where these people left their common sense and humanity. 
Life without a thyroid is not a reason to be sad. It's a case of 'better out than in' when a part of your body has gone rogue and tried to kill you.

I say CELEBRATE you biochemical incompleteness! 

And let's all be glad that we lost one of the few bodily organs whose function can be largely replaced with a couple of little white pills, allowing most of us a darned good life post cancer.