Ideal supplement doses

[Kamirra]

What do I take for

FERRITIN 6 (30 - 400)

FOLATE 1.7 (2.5 - 19.5)

VITAMIN D TOTAL 22.7 (<25 severe)

VITAMIN B12 164 (180 - 900)

Thankyou

[Nanaedake]

Kamirra, if you're in the UK you really need to discuss this with your GP and ask to be treated according to NICE and CCG guidelines because you are below range in all vitamins and some need to be investigated further like B12 for instance. Your doctor needs to test for instrinsic factor antibodies and rule out pernicious anaemia.

For really good advice on what your Doctor should be prescribing for vitamins, check out SeasideSusie s posts to other people, an example here:

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

If your GP has not contacted you then you need to contact the practice urgently and perhaps see a different GP in the practice and point out that you've not been contacted and you want the correct treatment urgently and without delay, including further investigations as needed. Don't delay and tell them it's urgent.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Nanaedake]

She has had T3 removed and Levo dose cut.

Yet another disastrous and completely ignorant endo and GP

[Nanaedake in reply to SlowDragon]

Oh, no SlowDragon it's desperate! I hope someone is tallying up all the numbers of patients who are so badly treated and neglected so that something can be done about it in light of the forthcoming NICE guidlines on hypothyroidism. I've lost count of how many of these we've responded to now.

[Kamirra in reply to Nanaedake]

Yes in UK thankyou will contact GP now

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Make an urgent "on the day" appointment tomorrow to see any GP (preferably not one you have been dealing with so far)

These are as expected extremely and dangerously low

Your GP should have called you straight in

How long since they were done ?

Here is reply from SeasideSusie and Clutter to similar dire levels

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[Kamirra in reply to SlowDragon]

Thankyou they were done a week ago

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Kamirra]

This needs sorting ASAP

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Kamirra

You don't supplement t these levels yourself. You need to see your GP and point out:

Ferritin is below range. Low ferritin often suggests iron deficiency anaemia so you need an iron panel and full blood count and if confirmed then you need appropriate treatment which is 2 or 3 Ferrous Fumarate daily. Take each iron tablet with 1000mg Vit C to aid absorption and help prevent constipation.

With a ferritin level of 6 you really need an iron infusion to raise level within 24-48 hours (tablets will take months). You can also help raise ferritin by eating liver regularly, maximum 200g per week.

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Vit D is severely deficient, you need loading doses see cks.nice.org.uk/vitamin-d-d...

"Treat for vitamin D deficiency if serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels are less than 30 nmol/L.

For the treatment of vitamin D deficiency, the recommended treatment is based on fixed loading doses of vitamin D (up to a total of about 300,000 international units [IU]) given either as weekly or daily split doses, followed by lifelong maintenance treatment of about 800 IU a day. Higher doses of up to 2000 IU a day, occasionally up to 4000 IU a day, may be used for certain groups of people, for example those with malabsorption disorders.

Several treatment regimens are available, including 50,000 IU once a week for 6 weeks (300,000 IU in total), 20,000 IU twice a week for 7 weeks (280,000 IU in total), or 4000 IU daily for 10 weeks (280,000 IU in total)."

Do not accept a prescription for 800iu, that is a maintenance dose only for someone with a decent level already.

There are important cofactors needed which your GP won't know about because they're not taught nutrition

vitamindcouncil.org/about-v...

D3 aids absorption of calcium from food and K2-MK7 directs the calcium to bones and teeth where it is needed and away from arteries and soft tissues where it can be deposited and cause problems.

D3 and K2 are fat soluble so should be taken with the fattiest meal of the day, D3 four hours away from thyroid meds.

Magnesium helps D3 to work and comes in different forms, check to see which would suit you best and as it's calming it's best taken in the evening, four hours away from thyroid meds naturalnews.com/046401_magn...

Check out the other cofactors too.

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For your folate and B12 Deficiency you should post on the Pernicious Anaemia Society forum for further advice healthunlocked.com/pasoc

You probably need intrinsic factor antibodies testing, you may have Pernicious Anaemia and you may need B12 injections. You definitely need folic acid prescribing for the folate deficiency but that shouldn't be started before further investigations have been carried out and B12 started.