Has your GP checked your vitamins/minerals? (it... - Thyroid UK
Has your GP checked your vitamins/minerals? (it may help Thyroid sufferers!)
Please select one:
At my request iron, B12 and folate. At endo request Vit D.
I've picked vit D, but my first endo actually checked my D, B12, folate, ferritin and Hb iron, and the following endo rechecked my D and B12.
at my request B12, ferritin. at his iron and Folates
I checked my Vit D
Vit C and Zinc NEVER!!!
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Despite 5 diseases, none of them!
D, B12, folate, ferritin and zinc all at my request. Folate and D were found to be very low so have been retested, although it was left to me to supplement. Ferritin is sky high and is being looked at and I have another test in a couple of weeks. I really had to push for most of these myself.
Ps the poll only seemed to let me vote for one test so the above chart isnt accurate. I will try again and see what happens - if I can.
Me too. when I pressed B12 then Ferritin, B12 disappeared, tried several times but no joy.
Endo requested all the above but still focused on my thyroid tsh and f3. I've been told if latest thyroid test is in range I do not need to come back! I was diagnosed with Graves now in remission but still suffer from symptoms.
Asked consultant to test vitamin D. Path lab would not do it because no reason had been put why. However they did do it eventually. I was told years before that I had antibodies to B12 and that I could one day get PA. After that it was never ever tested again. During a private test for B12 it was found to be very low and after showing the GP those test results it was agreed to give me another test which discovered I did have PA. Hb iron usually tested as a matter of routine half yearly blood test for diabetes.
At my request, vid D and ferratin. Failed to mention that vit D was very low, lucky I could read the print-out!
Interesting! I have been agoraphobic for about 3 years so have not ventures outside. GP will still not test me for Vit D.
GP has tested for ferritin (low), folates (fine), B12 (fine) and haemoglobin (fine). Endo not tested any but I paid for a private Vit D test which was replete.
I've been tested for most of these but could only pick one 
When i asked for a lbood test of B12 last year befroe i know i had graves disease.. she checked it and siad i was ok.. i had been taking liquid for a month.. but did not check anything else.. after diagnosis.. endo checked vit.D and discovered i was very very low.... then 10 months later.. i asked for another test. only calcium test taken.. and although low.. they said nothing to worry about. Its been 2 months since then and am next due to see endo in June.
I think the last time "my" doctor checked such things was when I was last pregnant!
Vit D,B12, folate. Added here as I was not able to tick more then one in the poll.
I have marked down 'none of these' because a couple were done - but only upon my request to a sympathetic practice nurse drawing the blood - NOT the GP!
Jx
None lol think l had vit D done years ago off a rheumy x
None. I asked as I thought I was anaemic, but nope.......just usual blood panel.
My GP has checked all those listed and more recently, but I have to request them.
I can't vote as I would have to pick more than one and it does not let me so I preferred not to vote
I did ask for them to be checked but I was refused!
At my request Vit D, ferritin, folates, zinc, copper, B12. Why doesn't the poll allow you to choose more than one?
I asked after seeing on here & it saved my life as it turns out my iron is way to high genetic so thanks for the advice to get them checked !!! Plus my gp is a gem!
Gp - iron and Endo Vit D - doing the rest privately.
Everything has been checked privately, but the GP thinks he's covered all the possibilities and no need to waste money checking "peripheral" stuff. Gave up and went private - the GP was just getting more and more unpleasant with us.
This poll does not work properly! Unfortunately it won't give a meaningful result, because it's only possible to select one option. I have been tested for most of the things on the list, as have a number of people, judging by the responses above. If I submit a vote for each, it will show on the results as if five different people were each tested for one thing and totally skew the results. Please re-design the poll and ask the question again, because it's an interesting question, but currently you're not getting any usable information!
But I have had several of these done privately. Hurray for the wonderful NHS and their 'preventive' medicine!
it would be better if you could mark all that have been checked rather than just one, only being able to mark one does not give a true reading as although most people will not have been checked I would imagine that like myself a few have had more than one checked, for myself it has been B12, folate, ferritin
Despite me asking on several occassions my gp has chosen to ignore all my vitamin levels,like most of you I now manage my own.
put hb as this was the only thing the gp requested without being asked. i suggested the others and the endo scoffed when i mentioned b12 and vitd but vit d has now been requested.
sorry - think poll needs to be done again as it doesn't let you select multiple options. I asked for vit d, but b12, ferritin and iron were done automatically
Like other I couldn't tick more than one but I know as well as my VitD I have also had B12 tested.
Moggie x
I was found to be hyprothyroid when I went on a diet and, instead of feeling fit and healthy, I started to feel more ill than I did before. My TSH level is now in the "normal" range but I still suffer with tendonitis and numpness/tingling in my hands, dry skin and fatique etc. I am seen by a dietitian on the weight management team as, when I started my diet by BMI was quite high; when I asked if it was possible that I am defficient in any vitamins etc he said that I eat a well balanced diet so he didn't think this would be the case.
I have wondered for a few months now why I have not been tested; I have always eaten a well balanaced diet, I love my food especially fruit and veg and prepare all my own meals so eat very little convinence/takeaway food, and had thought for quiet some time that my weight issues were out of proportion with what I ate, although I do accept that I did eat too much.
It was 16/17 years ago when I first went to the doctor complaining that I felt tired all the time; I therefore think I've suffered in silence with this condition for some time. It would make sense to me that, even though I have eaten the right type of food, that my body has probably not benefitted from this as it should and that it may now need help to recover. Taking the tyroxine now helps my body make the most of the food that I am now eating but I am still trying to loose weight therefore I feel that I am probably at a high risk of being defficient in some way if I don't suppliment.
I have already begun to take Vit B12 and Cod Liver Oil but have decided that I will now make yet another appointment with my doctor to see if I can talk him into sending my for vitamin tests. This, I feel, should have been done as a matter of couse; I was not even asked by the doctor about my syptoms or how long I had had them!!!!!
I take vitamin D and zinc supplements
I had to request the tests and several times before anything was done - i.e 12 months at very low Vit D before eventually after constant nagging was I then prescribed Vit D. Iron was the same and was told by one GP that " The Thyroid would sort the Iron out". It makes me wonder how I'd be feeling now if I'd been given the opportunity to start treatment earlier.
Poll needs a re-think as I could only select Vit D. I had to ask for the tests so please include this option as well. How many of us had to ask/beg/plead or demand they be done??
The header reads as if GP's do this testing as a matter of course when we all know most do not.
I have a very good GP who checked for everything. I am taking emulsified Vitamins A and D and feel so much better!!! 
Endo checked B12 and it came back low, so being rechecked after 3 months, then possible injections of B12. GP checks iron levels from time to time. Think I've been lucky that we moved house and I have a GP who is supportive. But doesn't everything just take ages! When I first got diagnosed, I thought that after a few months of T4 that I'd be back to normal!
Nope- none of them.I had to request ferritin,folate, b12 and D.Doc gave reluctantly.The others i have asked for but have been told "they are not needed" -i think he has magical body reading powers ......
I only got my GP to test these after about a year of her not being able to get my TSH level. She didn't suggest the test or was she very open minded about having it . She also told me my results were normal, but when she then sent them to an endo he informed her I was too low in B12 and Vit D.
As per other comments - I have had my Vit D and B12 tested and cannot choose both in the poll. This was only at my request/insistance. 'Great' question from my GP.... "Why do you want your Vit D tested? I would only do that if you were in an old people's home." Just when you thought you'd heard them all!
Folate, B12,ferritin,and Hb - all done at my request.
It will only let me pick one, I picked B12 because this was as far as most of the doctors bothered checking before one finally decided to check my thyroid levels, Had my B12 checked about 8 times in total over 15 years!
also had iron and foliates done as standard, none of the others despite having requested them to be checked!...as usual request denied!
They checked my B12 and folate at my request but incorrectly interpreted the results. They told me everything was normal when in fact I have untreated pernicious anaemia of 28 years standing with low folate levels.
Why doesn't it surprise me to find that the largest section is represented by the 'None of the above' box, even given the fact that a lot of the comments concentrate on the fact they can only tick one box... (agree with them that being able to tick more than one box would give a statistically better result, surely it wouldn't take too much effort to sort that out?) I am about to ask for the Vits D/B12, Ferritin and folate levels checked in my next bloodtest before seeing the endo again next month so I can optimise the T3/T4 treatment he's agreed to give me.
