Table 1.
Demographics and screening blood test values.
| ID | Age | Race | Pain | Free T3 | Free T4 | TSH | Vit-D | hsCRP | ESR | RBC | WBC | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANALGESICS | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Caucasian | 9 | 3.2 | 1.15 | 1.23 | 14.6 | 1.47 | 10 | 4.56 | 9.08 | ||
| 2 | 37 | Caucasian | 4 | 86 (total) | 1.3 | 0.99 | 27.8 | 0.86 | 6 | 4.24 | 8.38 | ||
| 3 | 21 | Caucasian | 6 | 2.8 | 1.23 | 0.60 | 55.9 | 0.9 | 0 | 4.42 | 2.67 | pregabalin | |
| 4 | 46 | Caucasian | 3 | 2.1 | 0.77 | 2.10 | 29.3 | 3.66 | 14 | 4.55 | 8.35 | ||
| 5 | 27 | Asian | 7 | 3.4 | 11.3 (total) | 3.00 | 6.3 | 0.32 | 4 | 5.11 | 6.09 | ||
| 6 | 24 | Caucasian | 5 | 90 (total) | 6.3 | 0.92 | 16.7 | 0.45 | 5 | 4.41 | 6.84 | ||
| 7 | 26 | African A | 8 | 3.0 | 1.03 | 0.73 | 15.3 | <0.2 | 10 | 4.69 | 4.41 | ||
| 8 | 39 | African A | 9 | 88 (total) | 0.86 | 1.59 | 15.2 | 34.2 | 36 | 4.22 | 8.22 | gabapentin | |
T3 = triiodothyronine (nanograms per deciliter; free unless indicated as total), T4 = thyroxine (nanograms per deciliter; free unless indicated as total), TSH = thyroid stimulating hormone (international units per milliter), Vit-D = vitamin D (nanograms per milliliter), hsCRP = high sensitivity C-reactive protein (milligrams per liter), ESR = erythrocyte sedimentation rate (millimeters per hour). RBC = red blood cell count (million per microliter), WBC = white blood cell count (thousand per microliter). No participants had detectable levels of anti-nuclear antibody or rheumatoid factor (not shown).
Pain values were collected from a single-item measure, “How would you rate your average daily pain on a scale from 0 (no pain at all) to 10 (worse possible pain)?”