Thyroid Antibodies

[HappyH81]

Hi, can someone explain this to me.

I have not been diagnosed but i am doing a lot of research before i go back to my gp. I read on the site the following "Any level of antibody titre should be at least regarded as potenitally suspicious of future illness'.

My question is do all full thyroid blood tests show thyroid antibodies present i.e. if you dont have a thyroid illness they would not show in a blood test?

Does this make sense?

Thanks in advance.

[Valarian]

Thyroid antibody tests need to be specifically ordered, and if tested will show up on the results sheet whether outside range or not.

They are not usually ordered by a GP, and in some cases, it seems they can only be ordered by a specialist.

[greygoose]

It would appear that only TPO can be ordered by a GP. TRAB, TSI or TgAB are usually ordered by an endo. But a GP wouldn't know what he was looking at, anyway! You very often have to nag a GP ragged, just to get him to do a TPOab. And many endos like to diagnose Grave's first, and then refuse to do the antibodies in case they're proved wrong! It's a bad situation. And they don't understand the signification of antibodies, anyway.

[HappyH81 in reply to greygoose]

Thank you guys.

[greygoose in reply to HappyH81]

You're welcome.