Thyroid results part 1

[katehugh]

Could anyone comment on these? Symptoms are bloating trouble sleeping puffy fingers peeing a lot water retention achy joints sore stomach have two lots of test results this is first one . Advice appreciated on 125 of Levothyroxine . Will post second results now

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Your FT3 is very low, FT4 could be higher. So you could need increase in dose of Levothyroxine, but GP will only look at low TSH and probably want to reduce dose, not increase it!

With Hashimoto's it's common to be poor converter.

Are you on strictly gluten free diet? If not that's likely next step to try

And possibly dairy free too, at least initially.

Are you aware of possible gut symptoms from dairy or gluten? Sometimes it's not at all obvious

Your ferritin is on low side so eating liver once a week should help improve

Pity there's no vitamin D test result

Do you supplement vitamin D ?

Can test via vitamindtest.org.uk £28

Achy joints is classic symptom of low vitamin D, as is insomnia

[katehugh in reply to SlowDragon]

Could you look at part 2 with bloods from doctor 4 days later please

[katehugh]

No l don’t think so but if you look at my part 2 post you’ll see the blood from the doctor with more in-depth results

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to katehugh]

Yes I had looked at them

Nothing of note for thyroid

Was it done at different time of day. TSH was a bit higher

[katehugh in reply to SlowDragon]

no both early morning but one on waking another about an hour later 4 days apart.just wondering if theres anything else not right in bloods. have been gluten free yeast free and sugar free for two years drink goats milk rather then dairy or cocnut milk made little difference sadly as bloating remains the biggest issue .

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to katehugh]

So which brand of Levothyroxine do you take? If you need to be lactose free you need to be on Teva

[katehugh in reply to SlowDragon]

just been put on teva

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to katehugh]

So is this result after 6-8 weeks on Teva?

Or did you change more recently

[katehugh in reply to SlowDragon]

Recently about 4 weeks

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to katehugh]

Is it worse on Teva than previous brand ?

Lots of people don’t get on with it. But it’s the only lactose free one

[katehugh in reply to SlowDragon]

Not really sure yet maybe a tad tired