Blood Test results please can you help

[eghjm100]

Hope you can read the results I am taking Vitamin B complex containing B12 200 mg per day so that may be why the B12 is so high I don't understand the cholesterol result and the comment below not sure if that applies to me hope you can help

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Your ferritin is on low side

Eating liver or liver pate once a week should help.

Cholesterol is often higher when hypothyroid

nhs.uk/conditions/statins/c...

You need FT3 tested, plus both TPO and TG thyroid antibodies

Just TSH and FT4 is inadequate

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 test. This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip, GP will be unaware)

If also on T3, make sure to take last dose 12 hours prior to test

Also need vitamin D tested

£29 via NHS postal kit if GP unhelpful

vitamindtest.org.uk

[JOLLYDOLLY]

Hi, Unless I am reading it wrong, your cholesterol looks fine. I have never understood that people with underactive thyroid appear to have high cholesterol, because in all my born years of being under active, mine has always been low. My overall score recently was 3.9! Which is the highest it has ever been.

I am surprised by your TSH and T4 as you are well in range for T4, perhaps on the higher side - are you on medication already? Without seeing a T3 result, perhaps you are not converting well.

Your B12 is very high, not sure of the implication there, especially if you are taking supplements, are you taking too much perhaps, I would get that checked out.

I am also curious about the HbAlc result and message, as you are in normal range of 37. 42 and above, would normally indicate that you are borderline diabetic, so would understand repeating the test in a couple of weeks, but as it is already in normal range, I am surprised. However, other results, especially if high like your B12 can affect these results. In recent tests, when my thyroid was out of kilter, it did send me into diabetic land by one point. I am currently borderline and going down. (thankfully)

See what your GP says and if not happy ask to be referred to a Endo.

Sorry can't be more helpful, but definitely seek a second opinion.

Take care

[eghjm100 in reply to JOLLYDOLLY]

Thank you

[Singoutloud]

Did you mean that your B complex contains 200mg of b12 or is it mcg. If it is mg that's 2000mcg which would explain your high level of b12. I have pernicious anaemia so have B12 injections every 8 weeks. My b12 level is always over 2000 but that's

just the level in the blood not the level in the cells.

Also the comments below the cholesterol just seem to be a guideline for the GP so your result of 37 looks fine.

[eeng in reply to Singoutloud]

200mg is 200,000 mcg. That would be a very high dose indeed.

[eghjm100 in reply to eeng]

Sorry it is 200ug

[eghjm100 in reply to Singoutloud]

Sorry the b complex I take has 100 mg of B1 Thiamin, B2 RiboflavinNiacin, Pantothenic Acid, and B6 then B12 is 100yu thanks for the Cholesterol info

[eeng]

200ug of B12 isn't very much. It doesn't matter if your B12 is high - we excrete what we don't use. This is a typical website explaining this: healthyeating.sfgate.com/ca...

[eghjm100]

Thank you eeng I have read the link info and suspect it may be down to the suppliments but just to be sure I will leave them off for 10 - 14 days then get the test done again.