It's not like me.....

[CowGarl]

Now aged 47 ... a slew of symptoms - scalloped & "oversized" feeling tongue, wiped out in the pm, freezing & numbness to feet and hands, (thought was Reynauds), pale face - puffy looking - and drab eyes, "foggy" thinking, no stamina to run, feel like I have IBS symptoms - bloating etc, just a lack of ooomph - not like me, sore throat, eyebrow & hairloss issues - but all tests have come back "in normal range" TSH 1.72 and T4 10.3 no T3 result given.... am I going mad...??

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

CowGarl What's the range for FT4? It looks as though it may be low but without the reference range it doesn't mean much.

What you really need is a full thyroid panel and vitamins and minerals tested too.

So that's

TSH

FT4

FT3

TPO antibodies

TG antibodies

Vit D

B12

Folate

Ferritin

Thyroid hormone can't work unless vitamins and minerals are at optimal levels (not just in range).

You need to see just where in the ranges your thyroid results fall.

Are you diagnosed and on Levo? The aim of a treated hypo patient generally is for TSH to be 1 or below or wherever it is needed for FT4 and FT3 to be in the upper part of their respective reference ranges, if that is where you feel well. A healthy person would generally have a TSH of below 2 and free Ts possibly mid-range +

You need to know whether you have high antibodies as this would mean autoimmune thyroid disease where antibodies fluctuate and cause fluctuations in symptoms.

You can get all the above tests done privately with a fingerprick test from

Medichecks Thyroid Ultra Vit (15% off until 24th March)

Blue Horizon Thyroud Plus Eleven

Testing details - thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/testin...

[CowGarl in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thanks so much for your rsvp - I'm going to dox on Weds to disc results in detail - will report back - really don't want them to tell me I'm peri-meno tho - I don't think this is the case. Have been doing the basal temp test for the last few days too - always in the range of 35.0 - 36.1 - underarm and/or undertongue... feel like a dimmerswitch when someone's turned the switch down.... should I ask for an ultrasound?

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to CowGarl]

You can ask, I don't know if you'll be successful or what the criteria would be for being sent for one.

Make sure you get the reference ranges for your results, you need to know if your FT4 is below range.