Vitamin D 62.3 (50 - 75 vitamin D suboptimal. Advise on safe sun exposure and diet)
in Dec 2017
It was 72 (50 - 75 vitamin D suboptimal. Advise on safe sun exposure and diet )
in June 2017 and I was taking 6000iu D3, so it has dropped a bit.
Symptoms are joint pain, clotty periods, fatigue, muscle and joint weakness, ears ringing, diagnosed vit D deficient Nov 2013, thank you.
Your other post shows you are under medicated.
Heavy periods are classic sign of being hypothyroid, also lowering your iron and ferritin as a result
Ears ringing is tinnitus, most likely low B12, also classic sign of hypothyroidism
b12deficiency.info/signs-an...
Vitamin D - suggest you go back to 6000iu if that was keeping level stable. Again you need high dose because you are under medicated
Strictly gluten free diet may help gut heal.
Dr Toft, past president of the British Thyroid Association and leading endocrinologist, states in Pulse Magazine,
"The appropriate dose of levothyroxine is that which restores euthyroidism and serum TSH to the lower part of the reference range - 0.2-0.5mU/l.
In this case, free thyroxine is likely to be in the upper part of its reference range or even slightly elevated – 18-22pmol/l.
Most patients will feel well in that circumstance. But some need a higher dose of levothyroxine to suppress serum TSH and then the serum-free T4 concentration will be elevated at around 24-28pmol/l.
This 'exogenous subclinical hyperthyroidism' is not dangerous as long as serum T3 is unequivocally normal – that is, serum total around T3 1.7nmol/l (reference range 1.0-2.2nmol/l)."
You can obtain a copy of the articles from Thyroid UK email print it and highlight question 6 to show your doctor please email Dionne: tukadmin@thyroiduk.org
Prof Toft - article just published now saying T3 is likely essential for many
rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/fi...
See Box 1. Towards end of this article below
Some possible causes of persistent symptoms in euthyroid patients on L-T4
You will see low vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12 listed
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...
If you want a new endo.
Email Thyroid UK for list of recommended thyroid specialists
please email Dionne: tukadmin@thyroiduk.org
Help on VIT D test Please
Vit D supplements
Vit D as supplement to Levothyroxine?
