Hi Folks,
Just had blood test results back, following a repeat of feeling weak & wobbly, as happened last September/October.
I changed my sublingual B12 brand, & dropped the dose due to dietary increase, & thought it might be PA, but results for B12 came back high in range despite no supplements for 3 weeks, though I'm aware it takes 3 months for B supplements to deplete. Just been called in to doctors due to "unusual" THs, as my GP who knows I self medicate is away. He requested the B12 blood sample go to St, Thomas' for more accurate test, but don't think this was done. I wasn't given the print out for vitamin D which is low when I spoke to the receptionist, as I'd also stopped taking any additional to my prescription 800ius, now topping up with a week of 10000ius before going back to 4000. Wondering if she missed out anything else I ought to know, aside from iron & ferritin as i was only given page 1 of 5. >
I'm currently on warm weather T3 dose of 62.5mcg of T3, as free T3 was low, last test on 50mcg: 4.1 pmol/L (3.1-6.8pmol/L). Winter dose of approx equivalent of 75mcg T3, including NDT is definitely too high, & feel more exhausted on 50mcg, Fatigue's worsened over the past month as back to needing an afternoon sleep, but I don't feel as shakey.
Thanks in advance for your helpful advice!
Range in brackets:
Serum TSH <0.05 (0.30-5.0)
Serum free T4 <1.0 (11-22)
Serum free T3 18 (3.1-6.8) Queried whether I was taking T3
No action on the following:
Plasma fasting Glucose 4.9 (3.6-5.5)
Serum vitamin B12 793 (181-910)
Urea & electrolytes:
Serum sodium 137 (133-146)
Serum Potassium 4.2 (3.5-5.3)
Serum urea level 4.6 (2.8-7.8)
Serum inorganic phosphate 0.79 (0.8-1.5) abnormal - no action?
Serum folate 15.3 (>5.4)
eGFR Abnormlal - no action?
Serum creatinine 42 (53-97)
eGFRcreat (CKD/EPI?/1.73m"2 (60ml/min.173m*2)
Calc + Alb
Serum calcium 2.27
Serum adjusted calcium conc 2.27 (2.2-2.6)
Serum albumin 41 (35-50)
Vitamin D 88 (78-150)
Results from 8 months ago:
Serum free T4 make appoitment <3. pmol/L (11-22pmol/L)
Serum free T3 normal 4.1 pmol/L (3.1-6.8pmol/L)
Serum Magnesium normal 0.79 mmol/L (0.7-1.0mmol/L) increase my supplement?
Serum gamma GT normal 18 u/L (0.00-39.00u/L) No idea what this is???
Serum vitamin B12 normal 335ng/L (181.00-910.00ng/L) Thought this would be higher in range due to diet & recently supplementing with nutritional yeast.
Serum folate normal 5.6 ug/L (>5.4ug/L)
Serum Ferritin normal 74ug/L (10.0-291.0ug/L)
eGFRcreat 1.73m*2 >90 mL/min/1.73M*2 (>60.0mL/min/1.73m*2)