Help please

[Gillybabe48]

Just need some wisdom on this. My daughter is 42 years and I myself have hypothyroid problem and my mother did and my sister. Now my daughter is suffering from acute tiredness, constipation for ages and brain fog and weight problems. She had a test last year and they only did TSH. Now this year she rang up the doctor and said about thyroid and they said they were quite happy with her TSH. Oh just remembered she is always cold. Anyway when she suggested a t4 and antibody test they said they were quite happy with the result last year of TSH. What does anyone think.

[Scazzoh]

Hi Gilly, doctors usually only test TSH. Just because they were 'quite happy' with the result doesn't mean your daughter is feeling well. In fact she sounds very ill. Ask her to get the actual number of all the blood results with the figures in brackets and post this on this forum. (e.g. TSH 4.3 (.4 - 5))She is entitled to a copy of all her results. She will get some advice on how to proceed from there.

[Treepie]

May be worth having private tests.

[Gillybabe48 in reply to Treepie]

She does have private check up once a year and they only tested TSH too.

[Treepie in reply to Gillybabe48]

See Slow Dragon's reply below.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

If you can't get full thyroid and vitamin testing from GP

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/testin...

Medichecks Thyroid plus ultra vitamin or Blue Horizon Thyroid plus eleven are the most popular choice. DIY finger prick test or option to pay extra for private blood draw. Both companies often have money off offers. DIY finger prick test or option to pay extra for private blood draw or

All thyroid tests should be done as early as possible in morning and fasting

This will test TSH, FT4 and FT3, plus thyroid antibodies, and vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

[LMor]

Hi. Doctors repeatedly told me I was ok and refused to do any further tests. This site has been amazing and I took the advice of doing a private medichecks test. I'm so glad I did. My tsh was nearly 10, my antibodies were very high which means Hashimoto's. I took the results straight to the doctors who had no choice but to listen and wrote me out a prescription on the spot. It's very much worth doing