Hi. Did a doctor test this? What kind of doctor do they think you need to see? A good and educated GP can treat your thyroid. Your TSH is getting too high and means you’re becoming hypothyroid, low thyroid, or slow thyroid. In other words, your thyroid is working too hard to try to produce hormones T3 and T4, and it’s under producing.
Do you have any hypo symptoms? Weight gain, swollen neck, hair loss, eye brow loss, fatigue, intolerance to hot and or cold, brain fog, low body temperature, diarrhea, constipation? Or what symptoms do you have?
Did the doctor also test your thyroid hormones? If not, your Free T3 and Free T4 levels need to be tested. Thyroid antibodies also need to be tested to see if your hypothyroidism is caused by autoimmunity against your thyroid. Tested are called TPOab and TGab. You can ask your doctor for these four tests.
These are from my doc and I've just seen that they have come back so had a look. At hospital when my heart rate was high on Saturday my tsh was 8.96 had bloods taken on Thursday and these are the results it's lowered quite a lot. I have been stressed lately.
And waking up at like 4/5 in the morning hair loss feeling cold. And tired but I will be as I'm not going to bed until 11 then waking at 4/5.
Which one of these is borderline as all I can see is that there within the ranges unless I can't see for looking.
You need a FULL Iron Profile doing as your FERRITIN is low in range - needs to be halfway. Ferritin is a form of stored iron in the liver. Also your Folate needs to be mid-range - so around 12/13.
Docs rarely discuss or prescribe anything when results are in range - not realising that we need good/optimal levels if unwell. Low Iron can be the cause of blood pressure issues - oxygen is carried around the body in red blood cells by sticking to the iron. When oxygen is low the heart beats faster to produce more 😊 Hence you need good iron levels
I would also treat the B12.
You need the FT4 & FT3 testing along with anti-bodies.
B12 result tells you the blood content not what is in the cells - a maintenance dose will keep you on track. B12 is needed in the cells. Results below 500 can lead to neurological issues. B12 and Folate/Folic Acid work together in the body ...
Yes adrenal issues can happen with thyroid - 24 hour saliva test is the best but a private test. Adrenals love LOTS of VitC 😊
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.
All thyroid tests should be done as early as possible in morning and fasting and don't take Levo in the 24 hours prior to test, delay and take straight after. This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results
You are feeling anxious and stressed because you need higher dose of Levothyroxine
Dose should be increased by 25mcgs steps until TSH is around one and FT4 towards top of range and FT3 at least half way in range.
Your TSH is too high. You need FT4 and FT3 testing and need to know if you have Hashimoto's, also called autoimmune thyroid disease, diagnosed high thyroid antibodies.
Your ferritin is too low. If you like liver, eating once a week will help improve levels.
Also ask GP to test vitamin D. It's extremely common to have low vitamin D when we have thyroid issues.
If you have Hashimoto's it very often affects the gut and leads to low stomach acid and then low vitamin levels
Low vitamin levels affect Thyroid hormone working
Poor gut function can lead leaky gut (literally holes in gut wall) this can cause food intolerances. Most common by far is gluten
According to Izabella Wentz the Thyroid Pharmacist approx 5% with Hashimoto's are coeliac, but over 80% find gluten free diet helps significantly. Either due to direct gluten intolerance (no test available) or due to leaky gut and gluten causing molecular mimicry (see Amy Myers link)
But don't be surprised that GP or endo never mention gut, gluten or low vitamins. Hashimoto's is very poorly understood
Changing to a strictly gluten free diet may help reduce symptoms, help gut heal and slowly lower TPO antibodies
I will ask my doc, What time I go to my doctors which had been a lot lately feeling not so well and coming down with all sorts when I don't normally get poorly they just put it down to anxiety try to give me antidepressants or therapy and send me on my way. Now I'm thinking it could have something to do with my adrenals thyroid or whatever else. When she had previous years bloods up on the computer my thyroid was in the red marker a few times then went back to normal.
I am so pi**ed at my doctors and how they make me feel like it's all in my head.
My doctors are closed till Monday. If my bloods are within ranges and all of vitamin d and all others are in ranges does this mean I don't have anything wrong with my thyroid?
They tested
Serum TSH level 3.87 mIU/L [0.3 - 4.5]
Serum vitamin B12 level 407 ng/L [191.0 - 663.0]
Serum folate level 4.7 ug/L [3.89 - 26.8]
From 17/11/2016 a restandardised folate assay is in use,
I've spoken to a receptionist about my vitamin d back in September 17 my vitamin d was within the range in the middle not sure on numbers she was a little hesitant to give me them so il speak to my doc on Wednesday.
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