More help please, antibodies test results!

[Lanefammm]

Hello there I have hypothyroidism and recently been upped to 100 mcg of levo hope it helps me anyways recently finally gotten my antibodies tested TPO was 32 U/ml and TG was 18.5 U/ml , I do have a goiter with a small nodule i cant see it with naked eye but it is hard to swallow sometimes like theres a lump in my throat and my endo could feel it easily and seen it with a ultrasound if that makes a difference, so if anyone can help me to understand this more and if i maybe have hashimotos I would appreciate it I do understand it's not terribly high but any feed back would be great thanks also my last recent post I explain ALL my problems theres alot to post here again, and more thanks alot everyone!

[greygoose]

We would have to see the ranges to know if you have Hashi's.

[Lanefammm in reply to greygoose]

My ranges for both the tpo and tg were the same 0-60 which makes no since if you look up normal ranges for these tests its usually 0-9 for tpo or <9 and for tg I seen 0-0.9 or I also seen <1 , the highest number I seen was <4 so 0-4 .. so how does 0 - 60 make any since at all? And the 0 - 60 range was for both tpo and tg

[greygoose in reply to Lanefammm]

Yes, that does seem strange, I agree. But, in any case, you cannot rule out Hashi's on the basis of one negative antibody test, because antibodies fluctuate. Plus, some people with Hashi's never even have high antibodies. So, you would need to get it retested at some point, and see what happens.

[Lanefammm in reply to greygoose]

Arent the labs ranges pretty much useless? Because they can be very wide and skewed and vary to much from lab to lab I mean the tpo and tg being the exact same range tells you something weird about it to me to start off with I looked up all of yesterday at different ranges for them tests and that's what i found like was saying , I found 1 range for the top that went up to 30 and 1 that went to 15 but the majority were 0-9 <9 and all the tg were the same under 1 besides the 1 highest range I seen of <4 but 0 - 60 ?

[greygoose in reply to Lanefammm]

It depends on the test. But, the ranges are also to do with the calibration of the machines used to analyse the blood. So, you can't take a range from somewhere else and use it to interpret your blood.

Did you get a print-out of those results? Or just get them verbally, or scribbled on a bit of paper? Because people can make mistakes when reading out or writing down results, which is why we always say to ask for a print-out, it will be more accurate.

[Lanefammm in reply to greygoose]

Yea I can get online and look at my results actually which is pretty useful!