I just got some bloods back and my TSH is still 12 . I’m seeing a specialist in January. My iron is low- can anyone recommend a good iron supplement. My agonising knees have improved after taking 5000 Vit D capsules. My antibodies are 289.
I take 3 Thiroid - I have heard there is a benefit from dropping a grain and adding T3.
I must have a conversion problem if I’m at 12.
T4 8.5 (10.80-25)
T3 5.5 (3.10-6.80)
TSH 12.8 (0.27-4.20)
Serum iron 13 ( 14- 30)
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Your results look OK, but not stellar (apart from TSH). I wonder if there is something affecting the TSH result. You could do with T3 and T4 a little higher, so could increase by 1/4 or 1/2 a grain and see how you go. Conversion looks good.
General weirdness. Dose not being right for the individual, although bloods look fine, perhaps need higher free T4. TSH producing tumour. Duff blood result - perhaps affected by biotin in B vitamins. Conversion looks really good, but perhaps it's taking a lot of TSH to make it so, as there isn't much free T4 to convert.
Only a very faint possibility. Sometimes tumours on the pituitary gland produce excess hormone. If the lab uses certain methods to test, biotin can cause wrong high free T4/T3 readings and/or TSH readings (although TSH usually comes out low rather than high) . If you are taking biotin or high dose B vitamins, it is more likely that the test is just invalid than that you have a pituitary tumour. Do you feel very undermedicated?
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