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tsh is 3.63

T4 is 15.5

B12 is 160

Folate is 1.9

Ferritin is 38

Vit D is 38.1

Dr has increased levo to 100mcg, added 5mg folic acid daily

For the next 3 months and then retest along with an absorption test for the B12, and also need to increase my dairy,green veg and red meat intake...

Any advice greatly appreciated please folks....

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Hello. Your Vit D is low. Not insufficient yet, but low! I would start taking at least 2,000 a day to stop it from going lower. Actually if you want to take 5,000 for 6 wks and then drop it to the maintenance dose of 2,000 that might raise it a LITTLE. You cannot absorb calcium without enough Vit D or magnesium. Your Vit D3 and magnesium ratio should be right also. Symptoms come on once your Vitamin D drops below 50. It should be kept up for optimal health. Also, your ferritin is also very low! Have you had your iron checked? Usually when your Ferritin is low the same goes for iron and that causes symptoms as well.

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I have 2 pages of results, what would they call iron for a blood test?

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HASHISmom34 in reply toLinny17

linny17 mine says just iron total on lab sheet above ferritin. they were tested one after another.

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HASHISmom34

I agree with above also i just read. B12 is pretty low and FT3 should always be tested.

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Linny17

Mine says haemoglobin, it's 133, so good

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Suggest you join the PAS forum on health unlocked

Your B12 is very low. BCSH guidelines are not to treat folate in isolation from B12 if B12 levels are low.

This is a link to the symptoms of B12 deficiency. Please tick all that apply - even if they could also be symptoms of thyroid.

pernicious-anaemia-society....

Please also make sure your GP (assuming you are UK based) is aware of the BCSH guidelines on treating a folate and B12 deficiency - especially the summary and also the treatment protocols on p8

bcshguidelines.com/document...

Please also go armed with this alert on the dangers of treating a B12 deficiency based totally on numbers in a B12 serum test - the serum test is not a good enough guide and your GP needs to look at symtpoms as well

ukneqas-haematinics.org.uk/...

Pernicious Anaemia - one potential cause of a B12 deficiency - is very common with auto-immune thyroid conditions.

Whilst anaemia - macrocytosis is one of the symptoms of a B12 deficiency it is not necessarily the first one to appear ... and it is not the macrocytosis that causes the symptoms - it is lack of B12 at the cell level which stops certain crytical process that causes the problem.

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It would help if you put a range for the FT4. But TSH is too high for someone on thyroid hormone replacement, so your FT3 is probably a bit low.

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Linny17

T4 range is 12-22

Doc didn't test T 3,

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