Comments on latest blood results please.

[Greybeard]

Latest fesults from medicheck. Blooddraw 11.30am

Tsh 2.16 0.27-4.20

Ft4 15.6 12.00-22.00

Tt4 76.5 59.00-154.00

Ft3 3.57 3.10-6.80

Thyroglobulin antibody 27.10 o.oo-115.00

Thyroid peroxidase antibodies 13.5 0.00-34.00

So as I see it I need a dose increase and I am unlikely to have hashi's.

It looks like I have a conversion ratio of almost 1-4.4 which isn't good.

Once I get onto the correct dose is my conversion ratio likely to improve or will I need to think about adding some t3 or try ndt? At the moment I don't feel good as t3 would indicate. Thanks gb.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

So as I see it I need a dose increase and I am unlikely to have hashi's.

I agree Greybeard

However, by bringing your TSH down to 1 or below, you can then get a better idea of conversion. See what your levels are like after your increase.

Are you supplementing with selenium? That helps conversion.

Is ferritin at least 70, and other vitamins and minerals optimal? All helps thyroid hormone to work and good conversion to take place.

[Greybeard in reply to SeasideSusie]

Hi Suzie, yes I do suppliment with selenium and vits and mins were fairly good a few months ago. Tsh has risen from 0.44 late last year and t4 has dropped from 18.?.

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Greybeard]

Looks like you could do with a dose increase.

Was this latest test done fasting overnight and did you leave Levo off for 24 hours. It was a bit later than we normally recommend, early morning is best and that gives the highest TSH, but as yours is high anyway it would have been higher at, say, 9am.

Do you remember what time you had the blood draw for the previous test when TSH was 0.44?

[Greybeard in reply to SeasideSusie]

Yes fasted and left off levo for 24hrs, previous tests was at 9.00am so I agree quite an increase in a few months. The test was done later than I wanted because I wanted someone to do the blood draw for me ( I'm a woose ) and I would have had to wait longer for an earlier appointment.

My tsh had been raised for over 7 years before treatment was started, I have read that it takes your body some time to start using the available hormone after it has been starved of it for a long time.

[BabyDoes]

Well you probably need to go to a hematologist and I was going to ask you why they check your iron and stuff well I have an iron disease where I get too much iron and cuz I thought I had read somewhere and it said that your low thyroid can cause your iron levels to be off. But hematologists told me the other day no, so I guess I hope she's right because my ferritin level is always pretty low n the other two they're a little high. The iron itself is nothing to worry about and just the saturation is in the ferritin to worry about.

Nothing anybody on here has hemochromatosis but hemochromatosis will make your B12 really high this is something I found out because they said it was really high every time they checked it and they said that was normal.