Can anyone help with blood test results please?

[Joybells123]

My latest blood test results are:

Serum iron level - 20.5 (8.7-27)

Serum free T3 level - 4.9 (3.8-6)

Serum free T4 level - 11.3 (8.4-19.1)

Serum TSH level - 1.60 (0.30-4.80)

Serum Vitamin D - 79 (50-75 def, 75-250 sufficient, >250 toxicity)

Serum Vitamin B21 - 405 (145-914)

Serum folate - 15.86 (3.00-20)

I have been taking vitamin supplements for 100% RDA of all the usuals (iron, vit D, C, B12 etc) since August.

Doc says I am not hypothyroid but I still have that 'lumpy throat' feeling and feel tired. Some of my symptoms (clicking bones and vibrating legs) have mostly disappeared since taking vitamin supplements.

Many thanks for your support xxx

[marram]

RFU has put it in a nutshell. You clearly are one of those, like me, for whom the TSH is probably irrelevant. Mine was 1.4 and I was ill, ill, ill. My T4 and T3 were similar to yours. There might be the occasional person for whom those figures would be OK because they feel fine.

We are always saying that the most important thing is, how do you feel? And truthfully, that IS the most important thing.

I agree that antibodies should be tested, and ferritin.

[Joybells123 in reply to marram]

Antibodies are 0.3 TTG antibodies <0.1 (<7 = negative). Not sure if I've had a ferritin test. Did you manage to get diagnosed in the end? If so, how? Thank you for your reponse.

[marram in reply to Joybells123]

In my case, there could not possibly be any doubt that I was hypothyroid since I had had a Total Thyroidectomy at 36 years of age - yet they still kept arguing that my swollen face, high cholesterol, excess weight gain, muscle weakness, and asthma was in no way connected with thyroid, and my TSH showed that I was over, not under-medicated. Wrong, of course.

In the end I took private advice and I am now buying my own thyroid medication - Liothyronine and Natural Desiccated Thyroid. I have a new GP who actually admits that I must be doing something right, since I am so well!

Marie XX

[Joybells123]

Antibodies are 0.3 TTG antibodies <0.1 (<7 = negative). Not sure if I've had a ferritin test. Did you manage to get diagnosed in the end? If so, how? Thank you for your response.

[Joybells123]

Thank you all for your advice. I take the usual multivitamins - but is it a good idea to take vitamin d tablets on top of this? They always warn about the dangers of taking too many vitamins.

What's ferritin?

I am seeing a private doctor next week...finger's crossed he will be more help than my GP or endo. x

[greygoose]

Nobody else has said this, so I'll say it : your B12 is too low. It should be up the top of the range. If you decide to supplement with B12, make sure you take a good B complex with it.