The most obvious thing is your very high TPO antibodies
Did you know you have Hashimoto's?
Are you on strictly gluten free diet, if not you are likely to benefit, but ask GP for coeliac blood test firsts, or get one online (£19)
Hashimoto's 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)
Changing to a strictly gluten free diet may help reduce symptoms, help gut heal and slowly lower TPO antibodies
Aiming to improve vitamin D to around 100nmol. Trial and error what each person needs as dose to increase levels and then likely to need ongoing maintenance dose
Retesting twice yearly via vitamindtest.org.uk £29 postal kit from NHS (if doesn't tie in with repeating Medichecks)
Read up about importance of magnesium and vitamin K2 Mk7 when supplementing vitamin D
We are seeing ever increasing incorrect comments from Medichecks lately.
If I were you, I would contact them about this comment:
"Your thyroid antibodies reveal no evidence of autoimmune thyroid disease."
Ask how your TPO antibodies of 350, where the upper limit is 34, can be classed as "no evidence of autoimmune thyroid disease"
When they tell you they have made a mistake, ask them to explain how such a mistake can be made.
You could tell them that you have discussed your results with ThyroidUK and they have advised you that this level of TPO antibodies confirms autoimmune thyroid disease aka Hashimoto's.
I am finding it quite worrying that we are seeing so many incorrect comments and even strange results lately from Medichecks, and considering they are one of our recommended labs I am wondering whether we should continue advising members to use them.
SSS that’s an excellent point you make regarding referring people to medicheck. Shouldn’t thyroid U.K. approach Medicheck with recent issues?
Surely Medicheck get a considerable amount of traffic from TUK and therefore wouldn’t want to loose business, so isn’t it only fair that they are given a chance to respond to recent criticism?
Whatever the problem is hopefully they can sort it out so that members can be confident in the results and comments they get?
My last results from Medichecks stated my Active B12 was very near top of range but my recent blood test at G.P. surgery was 385, so I found this confusing. I did put a question on the P.A. forum and they said that the blood test can be inaccurate and there is no need for it to be over 500 as is advised on this forum.
I have to go out now but I will post the link to the post on my return as, I am still concerned about accuracy of the Active test.
I don't know enough about it to know how you compare Active B12 with Serum B12.
The advice on this forum about level of serum B12 follows the advice of Sally Pacholok in her book "Could it be B12" where she says
"We believe that the 'normal' serum B12 threshold needs to be raised from 200 pg/ml to at least 450 pg/ml because deficiencies begin to appear in the cerebrospinal fluid below 550".
"For brain and nervous system health and prevention of disease in older adults, serum B12 levels should be maintained near or above 1000 pg/ml."
unfortunately a lot of people on the thyroid forum keep regurgitating the nonsensical idea that everybody should have B12 levels above 500.
Maybe the member concerned would like to take this nonsensical idea up with Sally Pacholok who I quoted above and argue it out with her. The people on the thyroid forum didn't make up that level, it was taken directly from Sally's book.
Most of the members of the PA forum aren't experienced in Hypothyroidism any more than most members of the Thyroid forum aren't experienced in PA or B12, but I doubt anyone on the thyroid forum would be so rude as to reply in such a manner if any of them commented on thyroid results. It's because of comments like that above that I stopped directing members here to the PA forum some time ago.
It's worrying that members are reporting errors in Medichecks tests whilst the forum is actively 'advertising' thyroid thursday
I recently spent nearly £600 on tests for my two daughters and myself which I'm now concerned was a waste of money and more to the point could discourage necessary supplementation (which i have to battle with them to take!)
Are there any such reports of poor results from other suppliers such as genova?
Hi all,I have had a reply from Medichecks and they could not apologise enough about the error and their Director has spoken to the Doctor concerned and promise this will not happen again.This was part of reply:
It was identified that your Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody result was not taken into account when reviewing your results, leading to a different interpretation of your results being given.They are sending me another test free of charge
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