Here are two lots of tests taken this year 6 weeks apart. I was on two grains in Jan and doc said i was overmedicated so i went down to 1.5 and a week before the test i went down to 1 just so i could make the thyroid tablets last out. Test results are a bit odd i can't seem to make head or tail of them. I have upped my iron supplements i can only take spatone I've upped to 4 sachets a day now....doc didn't think it necessary to re test for that or via D saying it was 'too soon' since last test.
Pathology Investigations
Serum free triiodothyronine level 8.0 pmol/L [3.5 - 6.2]
Above high reference limit
On Thyroxine?
Serum free T4 level 9.6 pmol/L [8.0 - 16.0]
Updated thyroid hormone reference intervals based on local
population data (1st September 2015)
Serum TSH level 0.36 mU/L [0.54 - 4.25]
Below low reference limit
General Information
Service Type: New
Status: Unspecified
Provider Report ID: CHM0178881601051250G,16.0681179001
Report Date: 05 Jan 2016
Pathology Investigations
Serum free triiodothyronine level 8.9 pmol/L [3.5 - 6.2]
Above high reference limit
Serum free T4 level 8.8 pmol/L [8.0 - 16.0]
Updated thyroid hormone reference intervals based on local
population data (1st September 2015)
Serum TSH level 4.43 mU/L [0.54 - 4.25]
Above high reference limit
? on liiothyronine replacement?
15th feb 2016
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.....ive cancelled doc appointment theres no point in seeing him as he is pretty much as clueless as me
please help!
Did you leave a 24 hour gap between your last dose of thyroid hormones and the blood test and fast before the blood test?
Yes I left the whole of Sunday out test Monday morning
O.K
I think we can ignore the 1 week on 1 grain. When your GP said you were on too much NDT was that due also to a high T3 and/or your TSH?
This extract is from STTM when on NDT (our blood tests only refer to when we are on Levo only). I think you know that if T3 is added into the mix the T4 will be lower.
FREE T3: T3 is the active thyroid hormone. Free in front of the T3 means you are measuring what is available and unbound. Those on an optimal amount of desiccated thyroid, with no lingering hypothyroid symptoms and in the presence of healthy adrenals, tend to have a free T3 towards the upper part of the range. If you are on desiccated thyroid (especially if lower than 3 grains) and find yourself with the free T3 high or above range in the presence of continuing hypothyroid symptoms, or even hyper-like symptoms (anxiety, shakiness), it’s a clue you have adrenal fatigue, aka low cortisol. If not on thyroid medication: 1) If your free T3 is high, you could have Hashimoto’s disease, which will need the two antibodies tests to discern it, or Graves disease, which needs the TSI test. 2) if your free T3 is mid-range or lower, and in the presence of hypothyroid symptoms, you may have hypothyroidism, no matter how low the TSH. You should NOT take any T3-containing product on the morning of a test.
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When the doctor told you you were overmedicated in January, was that due to a high T3 or your TSH result? Was the TSH higher or lower than the one you state above?