Results back from medicheck, and everything is still borderline. I keep to a gluten free diet. I'm really at a lost, I'm always tired and I easily pick up infections or viruses.
I'm now 35, in the past 15yrs I've had shingles, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, stomach ulcer and had a triple ankle break not counting various flu's and colds. Diagnosed with Anxiety and depression
Past results from gp that I could get: everytime I've asked about thyroid testing but they've not always done it
B vitamins best taken in the morning after breakfast
Recommended brands on here are Igennus Super B complex. (Often only need one tablet per day, not two). Or Jarrow B-right
If you are taking vitamin B complex, or any supplements containing biotin, remember to stop these 3-5 days before any blood tests, as biotin can falsely affect test results
Ferritin is slightly low, recommended to be over 70. Increasing iron rich foods plus vitamin vitamin C in your diet should help. Liver or liver pate once a week
Your Thyroid levels are low. But GP almost certainly won't think they are low enough to treat
Improving vitamins can improve Thyroid levels and almost certainly will improve/reduce symptoms
Only start one supplement at a time. Wait at least ten days to assess before adding another. Suggest you start with vitamin D.
See GP for futher B12 testing. Show them your below range folate result too
Suggest you retest thyroid and vitamins in 2-3 months, making sure to do test as early as possible in morning and fasting
Before blood tests were introduced as the 'perfect' way to diagnose, doctors used to diagnose us on our clinical symptoms and we were given a trial of NDT - natural dessicated thyroid hormones - used since 1892 and removed from being prescribed a couple of years ago, through False Statements made about it (not by the patients) by the Association.
It seems to me that the Organisations that are supposed to be knowledgeable aren't. So conclude they've never read any scientific evidence especially when withdrawing NDT and now T3 (although now I realise it was the cost of T3 but that was a 'perfect' reason) which left patients with levo alone and so many on this forum cannot and do not recover and may, in fact, feel worse.
I think we could have symptoms for sometime before the TSH rises enough for us to be diagnosed, i.e. in the UK it has to reach 10, whilst in other countries it would be 3+. Very inhumane.
When you have blood tests for thyroid hormones, do you get the very earliest one, fasting (you can drink water) and allow a gap of 24 hours between dose (if prescribed) and test and take afterwards. If not results may be skewed as TSH is highest early a.m. and reduces throughout the day.
Doctor may not do another test but when you are able, ask GP for Free T4 and Free T3 or have a private one through one of the labs who do home finger pin-prick tests although you could wait another six weeks and ask GP if he'd do them. It is very important to have the earliest test - even making appointment weeks ahead - fasting (you can drink water) and a 24 hour gap between dose and test.
I understand - we shouldn't really need to get repeat tests. You need to recover your health as struggling with your job is difficult to do and many bosses haven't a clue as we may look fine to them. They cannot see what's going on in our bodies. Sometimes adding a1/4 tablet every couple of weeks might work but again you'd have to supply your own if GP wont.
Ask GP for TSH and I think they've been told that only TSH and T4 are sufficient when they're not.
Before these blood tests were introduced we were given NDT and it was all about our symptoms and dose gradually increased by 1/4 until we felt better.
We are aiming for a TSH of 1 or lower and the TSH is from the pituitary gland - not thyroid gland and I think doctors aren't too knowledgeable.
It is like us reading a recipe for a sponge cake: i.e. we get all the ingredients out and mix together yet the sponge has come out like a biscuit but we may have missed out the most important - baking powder. For us hypo it is the T3 which may be lower than it should be.
I've spoken to my GP and he thinks the inflammation is due to my IBS. And the low vitamin. But I feel tired all the time. If I have a busy day the next day I'm wiped out.
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