Hi, I would appreciate any help/advice with my test results as I'm completely new to this. My main symptoms are anxiety, OCD, racing thoughts, pounding heart especially in the evening and in bed, insomnia and too hot in bed, breathlessness. I am a 43 year old female.
Ferritin 11.6 (13 - 150)
Folate Serum 15.75 (3.89 - 19.45)
Vitamin B12 Active 193 (37.5 - 188)
Vitamin D 48.5 (50 - 175)
TSH 1.18 ( 0.27 - 4.2)
FREE T3 5.75 (3.1 - 6.8)
FREE THYROXINE 21.6 (12 - 22)
THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODIES 11.7 (<115)
THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODIES 14.3 (<34)
Magnesium Red Cell 31.3 (29 - 42)
I have had a full blood count and I'm not anaemic.
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However your ferritin and vit D are below ranges....deficient, so worth sharing with your GP rather than just go in for self supplementing. Have you been tested for anaemia, what sort, odd as your ferritin level suggests this should be investigated further and treated! Do you take any thyroid ‘meds’? At present you do not have raised thyroid autoimmune antibodies ( known frequently on forum as Hashimoto’s disease), some of your symptoms could well be eased with raised vitamin/ mineral levels. TSH, FT4, FT3 ok.
Hi Judith thank you for replying. Yes I had a full blood count and I'm not anaemic. I am not on any thyroid meds. The only thing that was flagged up on my full blood count was my white blood neutrophils were just under range 1.96 (2-7.5). My Mean Platelet Volume is 13 (7-13).
I’ve had this issue with ferritin. Anaemia symptoms can be present with low levels. I read that the ferritin should be at least 70 in a woman for the thyroid to benefit from the thyroxine fully. My certain drops as soon as I stop taking iron. I had to ask for iron as my doctor didn’t think it was an issue but I felt really unwell and constantly picking up bugs. I did self medicate buying my own iron and checking with medichecks at intervals. I got it up to 39. I’ll keep taking one a day to stop it from dropping. I take 125 mg of thyroxine a day.
Hi Janfaz, thanks for replying and your advice. Glad to here you got your levels up. I was taking iron a couple of years ago but stopped as I wanted to focus on getting my magnesium levels up and Iron competes with magnesium. I really need both though!
Are you diagnosed as hypothyroid and on Levothyroxine?
Or add you trying to get diagnosed?
Makes a huge difference to how we read the thyroid results. Suspect looking at results you are on Levothyroxine?
Your vitamin levels are not good and are likely cause of many symptoms
Ferritin is below range, so you need to take these results to GP.
Eating liver or liver pate once a week should help improve ferritin. Other iron rich foods too, plus daily good quality vitamin C may help improve iron absorption
But you may still need iron supplements
Vitamin D is far too low. GP will only prescribe to bring vitamin D up to 50nmol. Aiming to improve by self supplementing to at least 80nmol and around 100nmol may be better .
Once you Improve level, very likely you will need on going maintenance dose to keep it there.
Hi SlowDragon, no I am not on any medication or any diagnosis.
Thank you for all this information I'm going to read it all and gain as much information as possible. I was eating lambs liver once a week but it wasn't popular with the rest of the family but I'm going to put it back on the menu again. Which liver is most beneficial to raise ferritin levels? Yes I have been taking a B complex which explains my high b12 results.
My sister has Hashis. My mum is hypo-T and could also have hashis as I would imagine it is very unlikely her GP tests for it. I recently got tested but my GP only ordered one antibody test - he didn't test for both despite me asking and despite my fam history. I didn't know that the blood test could show up no antibodies and that you could still have Hashis. I would imagine my GP wouldn't give me a thyroid ultrasound scan. A private doctor I saw years ago wrote to him and suggested it should be done [I have ME and FM] and my GP wrote the most scathing letter to me saying that I could get my private doctor to do it. I am in Northern Ireland and wonder does anyone know anywhere I could get a private scan done? I am going to order a full set of Medichecks bloods first and see what results come back from those. I learn something from each post I read here and am appalled that doctors seem to know so very little about something which if it goes wrong can impact so many bodily systems and so much functioning.
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