You are legally entitled to printed copies of your blood test results. Do not accept "result is normal "
FT3 in range could be 3.0 or 5.8
But many people would feel dreadful if FT3 was under 5
Total T3 looks very low.
Vitamin D - assuming its UK units of nmol - this is too low. Dose needs increasing. How much do you currently supplement?
Aiming to improve to at least 80nmol and around 100nmol may be better . Vitamin D mouth spray by Better You is good as avoids poor gut function. Suggest you supplement at double current dose for 2-3 months and retest.
It's trial and error what dose each person needs. Once you Improve level, very likely you will need on going maintenance dose to keep it there.
You've written that your NHS test included total t3 1.1 (0.9-2.2), which is a different test to your FT3 test with Medichecks, and they can't therefore be compared.
Did you have blood drawn for the two tests, under the same conditions eg same time of day and having fasted on both occasions? Not doing so can cause results to be different.
Firstly, I'm not familiar with sea kelp Diindolyl-Methane, so don't know it's constituent parts, but as a general rule, wouldn't recommend taking sea kelp or anything containing iodine, because iodine isn't to be supplemented unless you have been tested and a deficit identified. If you scroll down to the section entitled Discussion, this link will explain the issues; and in particular you'll see "Iodine excess can cause overt clinical hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism in participants with hidden thyroid disease.
Also in participants with normal thyroid status, a persistent, not definitive hypothyroidism can be induced by iodine excess. Herbal medicine or diets for weight loss containing kelp should be avoided also in participants with no evidence of thyroid disease. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...
It's a possibility therefore, that your thyroid results may have been skewed accordingly, depending on dose, how long you've been supplementing, how soon before testing you stopped the sea kelp DIM, and your baseline levels.
Well, first of all they weren't testing the same things. Total T3 is waste of time to test. Secondly were both tests done at exactly the same time of day, fasting, 24 hours after last levo dose? If not, you can't compare the TSH or free T4 results. You don't give a range for the NHS free T4 or TSH results
FT4 is still lower than mid-range and free T3 30% through range so also too low for most people, but better than NHS test. Higher TSH suggests pituitary has noticed low thyroid hormones and is trying to compensate
FT4 is too low in both tests NHS 33.33%, 43% private. Were you taking a supplement containing biotin (vit B7) at all? Basically you might have a pituitary problem (given synacthen tests) but NHS are not going to treat for thyroid problems
Hey thanks I haven’t been taking any vit b7, ah my Doctors aren’t even treating me for failed synacthen test. They said first test was out right fail second was borderline. So only HC on sick days but I’m sick everyday so that’s not very clear.
Slow dragon said my FT3 needs sorting at levels of 4.22. I’m unsure how I can do this if I won’t get treatment from my Docs wit these results? Would you know?
I have got someone that will prescribe what I ask as it’s paid prescription,
I just need to know armour is the right meds to take, if so what dose to start?
Yeh sadly diagnosed Lyme last October not via nhs all tested negative But u paid armin labs and it came back positive. I was also bitten in July 2017 by an insect/tick when camping, 6 weeks later my whole body and world collapsed. Two years on I’m still clawing on.
If adrenals are a problem Levothyroxine might be easier to tolerate to start with ...certainly cheaper
Plus 99% of UK medics think NDT is snake oil and being outside NHS for ever, for all illness can be problematic. Many medics refuse to treat patients on NDT
Obviously if Levothyroxine is not satisfactory, then next option is Levothyroxine plus T3.
Some more endocrinologists are slowly coming around to reconsidering NDT
NDT doesn't suit everyone.
I have Hashimoto's. Levothyroxine plus T3 seems to suit me better. The T3 can be very fine tuned
sadly I hvent connected with anyone who understands the connection with Lyme to thyriod adrenals etc or what is best to take, as chronic Lyme is such a grey area with no treatment plan x
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