At the same time as 1st TSH a 2nd one was taken for a different set of bloods. TSH was 2.87 and FT4 down to 17.0 don't know which was actually taken 1st. but both from same vein same tourniquet just a few seconds apart.
Also high cholesterol 6.2 (3.-5.0) LDLC 3.8 (0.4-3.0) HDLC 1.92 (0.85-2.00) Total Cholesterol/HDL ratio 3.2
I don't think I will be able to convince doc my feeling rotten has got anything to do with thyroid . Uggh
don't know what to do now.
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I'm sorry I don't know your history as it's not on your profile. I assume you haven't been diagnosed with hypothyroidism.
Or, if you have, your TSH is too high for you to feel well. Also higher cholesterol is a clear symptom of hypothyroidism.
The TSH varies throughout the day and there is slight variations.
If you are on levothyroxine, email louise.warvill@thyroiduk.org and ask for a copy of Dr Toft's article in Pulse Online. He states how low we can go with medication and discuss more medication from your GP. See Question 6 but ignore last para (typical what they really think). They just haven't a clue really. Doctors may offer statins for high cholesterol, when in fact it reduces with thyroid medication if we are hypo.
Thank you for replying shaws, I was diagnosed as hypo T by an ENT who had endo training in that area.
Was put on 50mcg levo. in March 13 Did not really have time to find the full effects as I had a hip replacment in the June when I went into hosp. for 4 night stay but ended 24 nights. was so ill couldn't gauge levo. effect. When I came out GP stopped levo as he was afraid as TSH had reduced he thought that was bad.!!!!.
Then I could not get any help. Have changed doc practice but I am unsure what the new doc will say with the above results.
My picture is confusing as RA 20 yrs. Fibro diagnosed??? PMR on prednisalone. As I am 76, according to previous doc., it's all my age.
Ask your doctor to raise your T4 to 75mcg as you don't feel well. He should if you cholesterol is too high. Mind you, do they know high cholesterol is a symptom. If he does you've picked a good one. After 6 weeks at 75mcg and you still feel unwell, ask for another increase.
Hi Sandy12, my brother 5 yrs younger has PMR and hypoT is on thyroxine and pred . My mother had PMR and was on pred for about the last 12 yrs. of her life. aged 93 when died. I remember most of her life she was unwell always tired and depressed. Had injections about every 3 months but don't know what for but she certainly improved for a while.
I will google thyroid resistance, thank you for that.
Hi shaws, thinking back you are probably right, but if I remember she was probably in her 60s or even later before she got help.
Like most women of her generation she never complained but I know she suffered Post Natal Depression exacerbated by very sudden loss of her mother to meningitis 3 weeks before I was born.
Then had to go through the bombing in London, during which time I had whooping cough and double pneumonia, she had a choice from the doctor, stay in the house and risk bombing or go to damp underground shelter.
Interestingly I never ever remember her being ill as such, just so depressed and tired and now I understand. I didn't then.
Get your B12 checked too, as it can run in families, my Mother had P.A. and so do I. A deficiency can point towards PA, although the tests they do nowadays, don't actually confirm it, I am told.
When you say avoid the statins, I agree, but my private doctor was deliberating on Red Rice Yeast for me, which has natural plant statin and has a long tradition of use in Chinese medicine. Is that any safer than synthetic statins? Just because it's as plant doesn't make it non-poisonous, look at the nightshade family, and digitalis, even mangoes belong to a well known 'poison' or allergenic family of plants ... it all gets very very complicated.
So, from what you say, Sandy12, since I know I have hypothyroidism, I should concentrate on the thyroid and embrace the cholesterol, because the cholesterol buildup should go down as my thyroid function improves ...?
And if that is the case, I ought to tell my Naturopath doctor to hold off on prescribing red rice yeast because it is a natural statin. Have I understood this correctly?
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