T3 purchase

[Charliebear123]

Hi could someone let me know via private message how I can buy T3 please? Many thanks

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Charliebear

Do you have any current test results that you can post, along with their reference ranges? If you post your results and say what you are currently taking then members can help with how to dose and whether you need to reduce Levo.

[Charliebear123]

Many thanks Susie. I’m at the docs on Monday for results. I will post them then

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Charliebear123]

Charliebear123

Ask at reception for a print out, we are legally entitled and they can't charge. Don't bother asking the GP, you will only be quizzed on why you want them and that will probably open up a conversation best avoided. Make sure you get a print out, not hand written or verbal results where mistakes can be made.

Put your results in a new post and members will help.

To know if you need T3 you will need results for TSH, FT4 and FT3 all tested at the same time. If your GP doesn't test all these you may need to do a private test with one of our recommended labs.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

For full Thyroid evaluation you need TSH, FT4, TT4, FT3 plus TPO and TG thyroid antibodies and very important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

Private tests are available. Thousands on here forced to do this as NHS often refuses to test FT3 or antibodies

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/testin...

Medichecks Thyroid plus ultra vitamin or Blue Horizon Thyroid plus eleven are the most popular choice. DIY finger prick test or option to pay extra for private blood draw. Both companies often have money off offers.

All thyroid tests should ideally be done as early as possible in morning and fasting. when on Levothyroxine, don't take in the 24 hours prior to test, delay and take straight after. This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip, GP will be unaware)

Is this how latest test was done?

If antibodies are high this is Hashimoto's, (also known by medics here in UK more commonly as autoimmune thyroid disease).

About 90% of all hypothyroidism in Uk is due to Hashimoto's. Low vitamins are especially common with Hashimoto's. Food intolerances are very common too, especially gluten. So it's important to get TPO and TG thyroid antibodies tested at least once .

[shaws Administrator]

My surgery runs off a copy of my results and charge 30p per sheet.

[Charliebear123]

Thank you all. I’m just so tired. Today I just took my dogs for a walk and had to come back and sleep. It feels like the life has been sucked out of me. I’m on 100 mcg thyroxine. I’m on venoflaxine too but I’m sure I’m not depressed- apart from this I love my life.

I just want to sort this out and thought T3 might help but my doc. said it wouldn’t hence the request

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Charliebear123]

Charliebear

A full thyroid panel vitamin/mineral test will give the full picture and that will help members to help you . We can tell you if you are undermedicated, if you need T3, whether you have Hashi's and how to address it if you do, if you have any nutrient deficiencies and what to do about them.

Best value for full private testing at the moment is this one

medichecks.com/thyroid-func...

which you can do as a fingerprick test or venous blood draw at extra cost.

Post results, with their reference ranges, when you have them and members will help.

[shaws Administrator in reply to Charliebear123]

Unfortunately doctors know little but an extract from a doctor who does is below. We are very puzzled that once diagnosed and given levo why we feel worse than before:-

Extract:

Many of your patients with hypothyroid symptoms are being inappropriately denied life-giving thyroid optimization because their TSH and free T4 are normal. Did you know that the free T4 range found in 95% of relatively healthy persons in actual studies is 1.0 to 1.6ng/dL? Yet most labs report FT4s as "normal" down to 0.6 ng/dL! Why? Labs are taking doctor-ordered

thyroid panels from symptomatic patients with "normal" TSH levels and including their free T4 and free T3 values in their ranges. They are therefore including all patients with partial central thyroid insufficiency, which is much more common than believed.

Did you know that top experts have said that merely "normalizing" the patients' TSH level with T4 therapy is not

sufficient? They realize that patients on T4 therapy often require free T4 levels near or above the top of the laboratory's reference range. Some recommend that the TSH should be reduced to around 1. However, the TSH is the wrong test. It is not a measure of thyroid hormone levels or effects--either in the untreated or treated state. Many, if not most of your patients on levothyroxine, dosed to "normalize" the TSH, are being undertreated. That is why they have persistent fatigue, weight gain, cold

extremities, constipation, headaches, depression, etc.

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