can anyone help me with my results its just so confusing.

[pursey]

tsh 5.73 (0.27-4.2)

free t4 11.5 (10-21)

thyroid peroxidase antibody level - positive.

autoimmune profile - abnormal

serum anti-nuclear antibody level positive -titre 1/160

erythrocyte sedimentation rate 2mm/1hr (3-9)

wbc 8.2 (4-11)

hb 140g/l (115-160)

rbcs 4.32 (3.8-5.8)

mcv 95.5 (77-98)

mch 32.4 (27.5-32.5)

ferratin 117

I don't have a clue help

[Redditch]

Ok your TSH is a little high.. and they've given you Positive for antibodies.. which is weird, you normally get a number as well..

Anyway, your blood results.. (which as you will soon learn, bear no resemblance whatsoever to how you feel) would indicate that you have a mild (at the moment) auto-immune hypo-thyroidism

So.. best to start now and get your temperature taken every morning before you get up, so keep the thermometer by your bed... You are looking for a low temperature

If you have a low temperature of 96 or 97 then you are really hypo.. and you could do with some help to sort that out.

Things you should be doing NOW to help yourself - 1) dump any unsupportive partners 2) radically change your diet to LOW GI (same as diabetics) 3) give up dairy and wheat 4) take LOTS of vitamin C (3g a day)

and get some selenium and magnesium and Vitamin D supplements also co-enzyme Q10... I would also get some DHEA from Holland and Barrett and take 25mg a day first thing in the morning

Take up Yoga... get outside as much as you can

Then you're doing everything your body needs to resist further decline

You're in the right place... most of us have been right where you are now... hang in there... big hug...

[nostoneunturned]

Yes, Redditch is so right - whoever applied the adjective "mild" should find out personally what suffering "mild" auto-immune hypothyroidism entails. The advice is spot-on.

Get Dr Anthony Toft's "Understanding Thyroid disorders", about £5 from Amazon/chemists. BMA publication, Dr Toft is past president BTA. The following applies to you:

On Page 44:

"Mild hypothyroidism.

The most common finding is the combination of a "normal" T4 but raised TSH level, known among doctors as subclinical hypothyroidsim. It is known that around 5 -20% of these pople will develop more obvious hypothyroidism in each following year.

For this reason it is now common practice to "nip things in the bud" by prescribing thyroxine when the abnormality has been found on more than one occasion."

Your T4 is at rock bottom of the range, how any GP can look at these results and not start treatment is really beyond me, or, at the very least, recall you for another test in about three months, to check where things are going. TSH has a circadian rhythm, so get blood test as early as possible in morning when TSH is higher, diagnosis more likely as consequence as benighted doctors judge condition mainly by the TSH, whereas FT4, and FT3 if you are lucky, are more revealing.

The main site has a lot of valuable information about everything you need to know thyroid-wise.

thyroiduk.org

This link will help you interpret blood test in general:

patient.co.uk/printer.asp?d...

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Your MCV is also very high, top of the range, so you should try and get your B12 and folate tested.