2 months ago i was diagnosed Hashimoto’s. Today I'm receive the results lab.
Results were : tsh is 7.791
Free T3 is 3.07 , free T4 is 1.11
Anti TPO is 35.4 range up to 5.6
Anti TG is 112.3 range less than 4.1
Please can someone reply
I am a very worried anxious person
My dr diagnosed me Hashimoto’s and treatment with thyroid hormone replacement medication…period.
Is this the right way? and what I have to do in my new stage of my life being Hashimoto’s????
So are these results after 6-8 weeks on starter dose of Levothyroxine?
Or are you not on any medication yet?
Can you add the ranges on these results. The figures in brackets after each result.
Anxiety is a common symptom and should improve with treatment
The aim of Levothyroxine is to slowly increase the dose in 25mcg steps (retesting blood 6-8 weeks after each dose increase) until TSH is around one and FT4 towards top of range and FT3 at least half way in range
Essential to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12. Always get actual results and ranges. Post results when you have them, members can advise
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, sometimes 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
Ideally ask GP for coeliac blood test first
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Those results after 6 weeks using dose mg of euthyrox. And now I take 50 mg. Would you please to ask me if the does thyroid inflammation have a treatment????
How long since starting 50mcg? Are you feeling any better?
I'm starting today.I want know if the thyroid inflammation have a treatment???
Not sure about the inflammation, think it must be because of the antibodies.
Don't expect to feel much better at first, but in a week or two you should notice some improvement, if only very little. Although with those results I'm sure you will need an increase - though you can't be tested or have another increase for about 6 weeks.
You said in reply above this is after 6 weeks on euthyrox - what dose was this ?
The dose is increased slowly until TSH is around one
I'm started with 25 mg starting today after this result increase dose to 5o mg
"2 months ago i was diagnosed Hashimoto’s. Today I'm receive the results lab.
Results were : tsh is 7.791
Free T3 is 3.07 , free T4 is 1.11
Anti TPO is 35.4 range up to 5.6
Anti TG is 112.3 range less than 4.1"
No wonder you feel ill with those results! Even without all the reference ranges, you seem very hypothyroid. If you have not started levothyroxine already it means the doctor is being negligent.
However, you have to begin with a small amount and work up until symptoms improve and you feel as well as possible. Blood tests should be every 6-8 weeks until you are stabilised. It can take many months (sorry!) but there IS light at the end of the tunnel.
When I started treatment (25 mcg, because I am older and have high blood pressure) I felt quite a bit better after a week or two, though not 100%. Then a little bit worse (not as bad as before) after about 5 weeks. The same thing happened with an increase to 50. I'm now on 75mcg, but after 6 weeks feel worse again.
But, as SlowDragon said, vitamin and mineral levels need to be good too, as hypothyroidism makes it harder to absorb them (and/or uses them up faster, not sure which). I have recently done a private blood test for vitamin D (couldn't get it done at the doctor's for some reason), found it was low, and started to take supplements a few days ago. So I don't really know if the symptoms I now have are partly to do with the vitamin D deficiency or that I need another Levo increase. Everything is interconnected.
Hypothyroidism causes a lot of different symptoms because thyroid hormone helps to provide energy to every cell in the body. Each person is different, in symptoms and the exact hormone levels that make us feel well.
As you may have discovered from this forum most doctors don't know much about it (poor training probably). As patients we have been forced to learn about it.
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