Looking for support - vitamins and minerals - iron anaemia?

[Charli38]

Hi looking for support. I have under treated underactive thyroid and I have been making mistakes at work which really knock my confidence. I get stressed when I don't understand something and this can upset me. I just feel like a mental case.

Other symptoms - feeling cold, anxiety, breathlessness, getting easily upset, brain fog, weight gain, heavy periods, puffy eyes, losing hair, loss of appetite. Please advise, I take 50mcg Levo and restarted T3 at 5mcg. I was diagnosed hypothyroid 2011.

Thanks

December 2017

Ferritin 21 (30 - 400)

MCV 78.3 (80 - 98)

MCHC 367 (310 - 350)

MCH 28.1 (28 - 32)

Haemoglobin estimation 116 (115 - 150)

Haematocrit 0.42 (0.37 - 0.470

Platelets 255 (140 - 400)

Iron 7 (6 - 26)

Transferrin saturation 12 (12 - 45)

Folate 4.1 (4.6 - 18.7)

Vitamin B12 216 (190 - 900)

Vitamin D 31.1 (25 - 50 deficiency)

[Clutter]

Charli38,

I think your ferritin, RBC and iron results confirm iron deficiency anaemia.

Folate and vitD are deficient and B12 low in range.

What is your GP doing about these results?

[Charli38 in reply to Clutter]

Thanks nothing being done about results

[Clutter in reply to Charli38]

Charli38,

You need to make an appointment to see a GP for treatment and make sure you complain to the practice manager about the practice's failure to contact you to advise you need treatment for vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Treatment for iron deficiency anaemia is usually an iron infusion or 3 x 210mg Ferrous Fumarate. Take each tablet with 1,000mg vitamin C to aid absorption and minimise constipation. Iron should be taken 4 hours away from Levothyroxine.

B12 is low in range and potentially deficient. Symptoms are listed in b12deficiency.info/signs-an... Contact healthunlocked.com/pasoc for advice about B12 deficiency and folate deficiency.

Vitamin D is deficient. Your GP should refer to local guidelines or the cks.nice.org.uk/vitamin-d-d... Do NOT accept a prescription for 800iu which is a mainte-nance dose prescribed after vitD is replete >75. Vitamin D should be taken 4 hours away from Levothyroxine.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

These are direct result of being under medicated for thyroid and having had T3 stopped

You need to establish if cause of hypothyroid is autoimmune thyroid disease also called Hashimoto's. Do you know if you have high thyroid antibodies? If never been tested ask that they are

Also insist on coeliac blood test, before you try strictly gluten free diet

Suggest you see a different GP if current one won't treat these very low vitamins

B12 needs testing for Pernicious Anaemia before starting B12 injections.

Folic acid supplements should not be started until after first B12 injections

Vitamin D, you need much higher dose than just 800iu. If that's all GP prescribes then get your own vitamin D mouth spray by Better You. May be 3000iu daily and retest via vitamindtest.org.uk in 2-3 months

Ferritin you need GP to prescribe ferrous fumerate supplements

Detailed supplements advice on Low vitamins due to under medication and how to improve

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...