hair loss ... not sure why?

[Katinsky]

Hi everyone, I have just posted my blood tests. Please can you give any pointers my Ferritin is 58. still on 75mcg thyroxine.

thank you x

[greygoose]

Could be the low ferritin. Or it could be the low T3 causing your hair-loss. But, either way, they both need increasing.

[Katinsky in reply to greygoose]

thank you, what should the T3 levels be?

[greygoose in reply to Katinsky]

Whatever makes you feel well - and if that's up the top of the range, that's fine. But, it's very doubtful that your present level would make you well, it's well below mid-range, and most hypos need it higher than that.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Vitamin D is too low as well.

Are you supplementing at all?

Aiming to improve vitamin D to at least 80nmol and around 100nmol may be better

Vitamin D mouth spray by Better You is good as avoids poor gut function.

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.

Retesting twice yearly via vitamindtest.org.uk

Local CCG guidelines

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Government recommends everyone supplement October to April

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links about magnesium and vitamin K2 Mk7 supplements when taking vitamin D

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Do NOT supplement any vitamin K if you take any blood thinning medication

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Vitamin C and bones

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The importance of sunshine

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[Aurealis]

Perhaps you could try a higher dose of thyroxine, there’s room in the range, it’s the quickest and easiest route and you might know if it was helping pretty soon. Introducing T3 to the mix could be quite complicated so I wouldn’t suggest that until you definitely need to.

[Katinsky in reply to Aurealis]

Thank you - I hadn't thought of that but will give it a try. Shall I go up to 100 then?

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Article about vitamin deficiencies that can cause hair loss:

hubpages.com/health/16-Vita...

Ferritin needs to come up to half way through range, I've mentioned bin previous thread about eating liver.

Vit D needs to be 100-150nmol/L (40-60ng/ml) as mentioned in previous thread.

Conversion isn't brilliant. Optimising vitamins, particularly ferritin, may help. Supplementing with selenium l-selenomethionine may help. Good zinc level also needed for conversion, maybe test that.

If you were ill previously on T3 maybe try a different brand, or try NDT.

[Katinsky in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thank you I will follow further supplementation. Do you think upping my thyroxine may help with the conversion?

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Katinsky]

Increasing your Levo will increase your FT4 and should, theoretically, increase your FT3, but whether the conversion rate will be better is unlikely. I think better conversion may come with the suggetions I've made but whether that will be enough is a case of wait and see.

[Aurealis]

I’m not medically qualified so shouldn’t advise you on dose. But we usually increase either by 25mcg every day or 25mcg every other day. Good luck