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Thyroid results help please!

123harry2 years ago8 Replies

Hi folks lm new and have results any help would be great medichecks say there fine but l havent a clue

Tsh 2.52 range 0.27-4.2

Free thyroxine 13.97 range 12-22 pmol

Total t 4 89.3 range 59-154 pmol

Freet3 4.51 range 3.100-6.800 pmol

Thyroglobulin antibody 13.45 0-115.00

Thyroid peroxide antibodies 6.34. 0.000 - 34.00

Like l say really havent a clue all help appreciated

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Musicmonkey

in reply to 123harry

2 years ago

At the moment, I am taking synthetic T3 and T4 and B vitamins. You can wait until your results worsen in the hope that your GP will treat you, or depending how bad you feel, consider self-medicating.

Have you seen the Thyroid UK site's Interpretation of results? Link here: thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/testin...

As you can see, a 'within range' TSH doesn't mean 'normal'. If you felt ok no problem, but you don't feel ok. You don't have antibodies, but you may have rT3 (for a variety of reasons). As I said, you would expect your FT4 and FT3 to be higher with a TSH of 2.52 that is not going to raise your T4 and therefore your T3.

Sorry if that is confusing, but I think you could read anything you can get your hands on. You may be like me, in the minority, because the majority, 90% suffer from auto-immune thyroiditis which is more easily understood by the GPs because it is more common.

When you research further you might decide to have additional tests to confirm what is really causing your low thyroid levels. It has taken me a long time and much caution before I decided to self-medicate, but I am fairly confident I am on the right track now.