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Luteinizing hormone (LH) test

Grandad is 87, diagnosed with colon cancer at the beginning of the year. Only symptom was rapidly decreasing iron in blood.They said he had stage T4 and that they were going to do an operation to remove the cancer. They did just that last week. Doctors said they had removed the cancer and he was released

Hello again, I would really appreciate feedback on my last test results please. Thanks to your previous advice I managed to convince an Endocrinologist to increase my Levothyroxine from 75mcg to 88mcg which I have been taking since last April. At the time of the last results I had been on that dose

Could someone shed some light on what is going on with my test results please. I was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism about 30 years ago after I had my goitre removed. Shortly after I had tingling and burning in my feet, I was not on any medication at first. Then I was put on Levothyroxine, and as far as

Hi all. Diagnosed in June with PMR started prednisolone 15mg usual taper plan but I am not feeling good at all, after three weeks tapered to 12.5 felt awful after a week told by gp to increase back to 15 still not improving then told by gp to increase to 20, no great improvement but stayed on 20 for

Test Result Normal Range 24-Oct-2024 HbA1c levl - IFCC standardised 54 mmol/mol - mmol/mol Comment: (CN) - Stable. discuss at planned review Providing none of the exclusion criteria are met, HbA1c of 48mmol/mol or greater can be diagnostic of diabetes. Values <48 mmol/mol do not exclude diabetes

Hi All Just wondering if anyone has ever experienced this. I’m on Methotrexate for RA, have been taking it for about 6 years, bloods are taken every few months as it can cause liver problems. My ALT has been low for years now, but since having an iron infusion in April, my ALT, GGT are getting higher

I had a review last week regarding my thyroid medication. The Dr refused to increase T4 due to suppressed TSH, despite my FT3 & FT4 being low in range. 'Guidelines' were mentioned.I agreed to an endo appointment, but pointed out the one I had in 2021 where he said 'if she feels well, leave her alone

Hello, I'm preparing to request another prescription of levo. I have been taking 100mcg consistently and I feel ok on it (i.e. well enough to not want to mess about with levels). GP keeps telling me I am overmedicated and has put me down to 25mcg so I have been sourcing privately. Here are my latest

I saw my rheumatologist yesterday. A couple of weeks earlier than scheduled because I've felt very depressed. I feel no joy, no focus, no energy/vibe. My blood and urine tests were OK, but my skin is the worst he's seen it. 😫 He even, with consent, took a photo of my hands to show them to his medical

Brychni 23 hours ago•3 Replies Hello 👋 I posted this message on the Raynaud's and scleroderma group but after some research wondered if anyone here can help.me: Got my blood results back from rheumatology today, they were looking for scleroderma because of my worsening Raynaud's and finger ulcers.

I recently ran my thyroid labs and I got low TSH and high rT3. Trying to figure out future dosing. I have been on levothyroxine for Hashimoto's at 75mcg + 1/2 pill of Thyroid-S per day for 3 years feeling pretty well with no scores much out of the ordinary. But, about 5 months ago, I

I had some Lola blood tests 37 tests. 26 normal 11 abnormal as follows Haemocrit 0.526 L/L 0350-0470 Above normal Mchc 279 g/L 300-350 Below normal Mch 24.8pg 27.0 - 33.0

A paper of possible interest. But it could be turned round and made YOUR FAULT for having impaired sensitivity. And dislike the language where [i]high levels of TT3RI and TFQIFT3[/i] are referred to as if they are real substances. Not that they are indexes based on measurements. [i]Diabetes Metab

We recently purchased an at home blood pressure reader. When I have tested in the evening it is high at around 150/90 which is worrying. I had to do an at home blood test this morning so held back on taking my thyroid medication. I took my blood pressure a few times within half an hour of getting up

Hi, I have just had my third set of blood tests done, following an increase to 100mg levothyroxin 8 weeks ago. My results are interesting. My (private) GP had a suspicion after my first lot of results (8 weeks on 50mg levothyroxin) that I may not be converting T4 to T3 well, and I think these results

Hi - those of use lucky enough to be prescribed T3 on the NHS: Does your endocrinologist test T3 and T4 or just TSH? I know too many just rely on TSH but to the extent that they don’t even test T3 or T4 when you’re on Liothyronine? I had a monitoring test that seems to only have been TSH. I will

This is my 6th week since first miscarriage. I have confirmed negative hcg 3 times before. Have been tracking my LH just to see how my body is reacting, which as usual started with very low LH. I'm getting high LH now since 5 days, I never ovulated on my own before (atleast never checked) and I was suspicious

I posted before with Radioiodine treatment, my last blood results in June were TSH <0.02mU/L (0.30-4.50), T4 13.4pmol/L (11-22), T3 5.3pmol/L (3.1-6.8). I had blood taken on August 21st and am struggling to get the results from the endo, I received a letter from them saying they had got the blood

I’ve just been sent some results by my private doc. She asked that I swap from 50 Levo/6 t3 at the beginning of June to 2 grains of armour. After 3 weeks I hit a wall and have reduced it to 1 grain and now 1/2 grain fro the past week as I just felt so awful on it. Any thoughts welcome. TSH: 0.025 (

I have got a blood test at 9.15 in private clinic setting. I took t4 at 6.15 yesterday morning. Do I take the t4 now before blood test as may be false low? Previously high t4 after taking thyroxine (NHS) and also after MMH finger prick test (without taking t4). Thank you for any help and advice.