Latest test results

[catpurple7]

Hi all, these ar my latest test results. I'm currently taking 125mcg levothyroxine, 2000iu vitamin d3, k2 mk-7, b12, b complex and just last week started taking iron and folic acid.

I felt good for a couple of months but the past 6 weeks I've gone back to how i used to feel, tiredness/exhaustion, tingly fingers, brain fog, mixing my words.

Are my results ok or should i be doing something else?

I had cut out soy ccompletely but slowly it's got back in, could this be why I'm feeling so crappy?

Many thanks for any advice ☺

[Matilda_1922]

Hi

Looking at your bloods they look all normal.

Why did you start iron tablets was it your choice or did you GP prescribe them. Why I ask is your haemoglobin level is within normal limits.

Have you had any tests for diabetes.

Also has your blood pressure been checked.

As I was walking home from the shops today I had similar symptoms you described apart from tingling fingers. But has gone since arriving home.

I have an underactive thyroid my thyroxine dose has recently been adjusted. Told to have this rechecked in 3 months.

[catpurple7 in reply to Matilda_1922]

Hi, thanks for the reply, i was prescribed iron/folic acid combo after my last blood test in march and it was a course of 100 tablets. I felt really good whilst taking thembut they ran out a couple of months ago and iI've been feeling worse and worse so i thought my iron might be low again so i stsrted taking iron again.

[Nanaedake]

I think you need to ask your doctor why your platelet count is high and why your white blood count is high.

If you've been supplementing B12 it looks like you are above range now and could stop for a while and retest in a few months or take a low mainenance dose and retest in a few months.

Be careful with iron as you don't want to go over range so if you're supplementing you need to test ferritin levels in a few months, your body stores iron. Ferritin half way in range is enough.

With folate, again half way in range is fine.

[greygoose]

Your FT3 is too low. It isn't even mid-range, and most people need it up the top of the range to feel well. You need an increase in dose, despite the TSH - which is all doctors tend to look at. Was this test done early in the morning, and fasting?

It's best to lose the unfermented soy. It stops your hormone getting into the cells, which keeps you hypo.

[catpurple7 in reply to greygoose]

Hi greygoose

Yes it was done early morning, fasting and i didn't take my levo the day before.

I have a Dr's appointment on Thursday, what should i ask him to increase my dose to?

Should i continue with iron and folic acid?

Being vegan i find it hard to stay away from soy.... its in everything! lol

[greygoose in reply to catpurple7]

Increases should always be 25 mcg. No more. And, I don't think you want less, given your results. Yes, I think you should continue with the iron and folic acid - although methylfolate would be better.

'Being vegan i find it hard to stay away from soy'

Only if you eat processed foods. If you make everything from scratch, you aren't forced to put soy in. There's absolutely no advantage to eating soy, you know. Human beings cannot absorb the protein it contains, and it does lower some of your other nutrients.

[catpurple7 in reply to greygoose]

Thanks greygoose

I know you're right about soy, it's just i get tired and then it's just easy to eat processed rubbish. I need to start preparing ahead ☺

[greygoose in reply to catpurple7]

Good idea!