[AnnieBL]

While I agree with all the other replies you have received, I think it possible that the doctor might have intended to mean rightly or wrongly that the readings from the BC hormones might mask any real imbalance, and that if you believed that your hormones were out of balance, the reason was much more likely thyroid problems caused by amiodarone, which has a substantial iodine content and is powerful drug notorious for its very high incidence of side effects, particularly thyroid problems; and also for its very slow build up and subsequent elimination from your body, as well as its interaction with other drugs such as warfarin, which it greatly potentiates. If you are taking it only on a fairly temporary basis, for example to determine whether it will stop an arrhythmia or preparatory to a cardioversion, then it is probably not a good time to test for anything except for problems caused by the drug itself. When I was put on it back in 2000 after a failed cardioversion and preparatory to another and final failed attempt, it reduced my pulse rate to ridiculously low levels (sometimes below 30), and by the time I got off it was just beginning to have some of its scary vision side effects - and there is no way you can get it out of your system in a hurry. At least I didn’t turn blue like a smurf. If you are on it long term, you are probably escaping the side effects, except perhaps thyroid problems. I'm not meaning to scare you because it certainly is supposed to work in some cases where nothing else does, but you need to watch out for its side effects.