@shilolo if it is her T3 number then you are right it would be hyper, but very off, T3 normal ranges are at my lab .6 – 2.2, but I think free T3 is a little higher as stated in your link; and, of course it might vary by labs. Possibly the number was 3.8, and not 38, but I am going to assume she heard it correctly. 38 could either VERY high or VERY low, depending on where the lab puts their decimal I figure. She has a goiter, so that means to me her thyroid condition is not under control. The goiter typically goes away when you get into normal ranges, unless you have a cyst or some sort of growth that is not the actual gland. Since they mentioned the TSH/T3 number, I am guessing they too think it is way off.
I just went back and read that @lunabean wrote The endocrinologist told her the thyroid problem would go away on it’s own while she’s not taking any medicine in about two weeks which I had not read carefully previously, until you pointed out again the hyperthyrodism diagnosis, so she has medically, possibly, put herself into a state of hypothyroidism, don’t you think? She might have been taking medicine to slow her thyroid, and it is now too slow. So she would not have been given synthroid as I had presumed previously. that is my mistake. Thank you for bringing it up.
Why do you think her symptoms are more consistant with hyperthyroid? I read your link, but nothing jumped out at me. I agree, more than one thing probably going on.
I am not sure why you say she would not be readily released? I walked myself into the emergency room asking for a thryoid and kidney blood work, I knew less then, but I knew I had severe muscle pain, a goiter (although the doctor in the ER said my neck looked fine) my skin on face and chest felt itchy, like I had a rash, and a general feeling something was very wrong, very off, a little paranoid. my hair had been falling out, and I had had high blood pressure results when I had a recent check up at a doctors office, very unusual for me (I had asked him to run a thyroid test, and he didn’t do it). Not to mention I kept feeling like my heart was stopping and I could not get enough oxygen. That day in the ER they came back with the 95.6 TSH, and every other part of the thyroid panel out of whack. They sent me home with a prescription and told me to see an endocrinologist.