Before you consider T3 you need an increase in your Levo to get your TSH down to 1 or below and your free Ts higher in range according to your results in your previous thread:
Thyroid stimulating hormone 2.07 range 0.27-4.20
Free thyroxine 12.4 range 12.00-22.00
Total thyroxine T4 82.3 range 59.00-154.00
Free T3 3.27 range 3.10-6.80
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You also need to address the Hashi's confirmed by your raised antibodies:
Thyroid peroxidase antibodies *49.6 range 0.00-34.00
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Your folate should be half way through it's range:
Folate (serum) 14.87 range 2.91-50.00
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Your Vit D should be between 100-150:
25 OH Vitamin D 76.4 range 50.00-200.00
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Your Ferritin meds to be at least 70 for any thyroid hormone to work:
Ferritin 25.6 range 13.00-150.00
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All mentioned in reply to your previous thread.
Best sort those out before doing anything about T3, you may not even need it.
Eating leafy greens can help raise folate, but a good B Complex containing methylfolate will do the job. My folate was bottom of range and I raised it to top of range within 2.5 months by taking 1 x Thorne Basic B daily.
How much Vit D are you currently taking? And what sort of supplement? And do you take D3's important cofactors K2-MK7 and magnesium? Magnesium helps D3 to work.
With your ferritin level you could discuss with your GP. I was offered iron tablets in prescription for a level of 39 but I prefer to raise my by eating liver regularly, maximum 200g per week.
But what you have to do is address what is possibly a gut/absorption problem which is very common with Hashi's and causes low nutrient levels and deficiencies. Check out the links in this reply by SlowDragon
I second SeasideSusie's advice to take Thorne Basic B. My folate and B12 are great now although I started by taking sublingual methylcobalamin for a year and methylfolate for 3 months before I found out about Thorne Basic B.
The day I gave up on Doctors was the first day of my recovery.
Your dr is not interested!
Whereabouts do you live? I run the Midlands thyroid support group but there are others around the country.
It’s about taking your own health into your own hands. Getting all of your ducks in a row, we are all different, you can find what is best for you.
Nutrition is key, your body will work much better getting rid of as many toxins as possible. No fluoride, plastics, microwave, then using natural deodorant, bodycare, laundry care. NO antibacterial soaps and sprays.
Aha I have a thyroid friend in Aberdeen, met her on another thyroid forum years ago - let me have your email address and I will give it to her. I cannot remember her name on this forum? It would be good to have a chat.
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Help!! Undetectable tsh and over 60!
Thyroid, b12, iron, everything, connection?
despair - arrogant endocrinologists
T3 stopped 😡
I seem to have dropped off their lists. ???
