Help with results

Can someone help me with this test please done at the hospital I got my notes . Just scanning through them I found this

NA 137. FSH 5.8 TSH 0.01

K 45. LH 2.2. FT4 1.6

CR 51 FT3 1.4

LL4.6

Core>90 ml 133

Cortisol 375

Thanks

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

NA = sodium

K = potassium

FSH = follicle stimulating hormone (made by the pituitary)

LH = luteinizing hormone (produced by the pituitary)

TSH = thyroid stimulating hormone

FT3 = Free T3

FT4 = Free T4

CR = Creatinine (kidney function test)

LL - no idea

CORE = no idea

If you want members to interpret your results you'll need to add the reference ranges.

[Hidden in reply to SeasideSusie]

They were hand written very bad handwriting !

That LL. could have been something else undistinguished! As could the core ? 🤨

Thanks for you help x

[ThyroidThora]

Hiya,

What medication if any were you taking when the blood was drawn and what time of day was this?

TT x.

[Hidden in reply to ThyroidThora]

Think this was the TRH test

My note have been handwritten x

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

9am it was done

[ThyroidThora in reply to Hidden]

Did you take your thyroid meds before?

[BadHare in reply to Hidden]

That's a miracle if they did a TRH test!

[Hidden in reply to BadHare]

Why ? 🤔

[BadHare in reply to Hidden]

Thyrotropin releasing hormone is not a standard test.

I couldn't even get one privately. All I could find out 4-5 years ago was that Leeds university had the facility, but doesn't do it.

[Trufflebuggy]

Potassium can’t possibly be 45! Most likely 4.5 which is okay.

Could the core be eGFR, units for that would be ml/min/1.73 and >90 is a good result

Still thinking what LL could be... think it could be GL for glucose looking at the value which would be okay if so.

[Hidden in reply to Trufflebuggy]

Thanks

There quite hard to make out you know how these people write 🤔

[Trufflebuggy in reply to Hidden]

Many years of reading doctors handwriting on lab request forms, you get to be able to make out most things but sometimes even turning it upside down, squinting and standing on one leg doesn’t help 😀

[Hidden in reply to Trufflebuggy]

😆 oh if only they could write nicely 😳

[Hidden in reply to Trufflebuggy]

Is the cortisol level ok ? I didn’t have the test done till about 11.30am I know some tests are better done earlier in the day

[Trufflebuggy in reply to Hidden]

Really depends on why it was requested, random cortisol tests aren’t always useful and each hospital endocrine team can use slightly different cut offs for diagnosis. But as cortisol drops during the day, I would say yours wouldn’t indicate adrenal insufficiency but with the proviso that if there was clinical suspicions due to symptoms then an endocrinologist would need to do a thorough review.

[Hidden in reply to Trufflebuggy]

I think the cortisol was a random test . A few years ago I had a synacthen test.