Am i Hypo with Graves

[miravgraves]

hi and thanks in advance for any info. Hello i have graves and have had my thyroid removed, like many thyroid sufferes i have never felt healthy and all i get from endo or dr (The computer says no lol) your in range, but recently i feel if though im hypo can someone look at these results for me.

tsh 0.58 range 0.4 - 4.00

t4 17 range 10 - 25

t3 3.7 range 2.8 - 7

b12 244 range 191 - 663

ferritin 8 range 30 - 400

triglycerides (non fasting) 1.0 mmol/L

total hdl cholesterol 1.3 mmol/L >1.0

cholesterol/hdl 3.6

non-hdl cholesterol 3.4 mmol/L 0 - 3.0

i have also recently bin diagnosed as being survere anemic and iron deficiant

medicine i take for this is folic acid 5mg a day and ferrous fumarate 210 mg 3 times a day (not taken at same time as my levo)

levothyroxine 150 micro grams 5 times a week and 175 2 days a week.

Also im sure i read some where being anemic increases thyroid blood levels (t4 T3) and once normal blood levels (9 pints) is achieved, the thyroid blood levels (t4 t3) will decrease futher due to fact of having more blood

[shaws Administrator]

Apparently Graves can develop antibodies

This is an excerpt from a past post:-

Very heavy going, but this link might be of some use:

Antithyroid Antibodies Determination of antibody titers provides supporting evidence for Graves’ disease. More than 95% of patients have positive assays for TPO (microsomal antigen),...

thyroidmanager.org/chapter/...

That is saying, most people with Graves' have elevated TPOab.

TRAB seem to be what cause the hyperthyroidism - by getting stuck in the TSH receptor and continuously stimulating the thyroid to produce inappropriately high amounts of thyroid hormone.

Rod

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...