Christmas bug / flu like thing lingering

[StillEverHopeful]

After an auumn with plenty of stress, moving inlaws, hospitalised family extended member, Mum in Law breaking hip and coping with it all with remarkabley well I thought my days of fatigue were behind me....I had been feeling well for around 3 months.

Over Christmas family gave me a nasty cough/cold/flu-y bug that they say lingered with them... I thought I was over the worst & had a gentle trip to the near by coast on Saturday and have been wiped out with fatigue, aches & waves of feeling over heated ever since and have had a fluctuating temperature since I first caught the cold. How do you decide if you feel ill due to needing thyroid meds altering of if it is just a lingering bug?

Thank you for your thoughts on this, do you think I should reduce my levo a tiny bit? (currently on 125mcg) or is it all to do with the wretched bug?

below are a few of my results from the past six or so months... I note that December my vit D was over range and have stoped supplimenting it, but continue with cofactors vit K & magnesium. I also take a b complex with folate and zinc

Medichecks August

TSH 0.128 mIU/L (Range: 0.27 - 4.2)

Free T3 5.47 pmol/L (Range: 3.1 - 6.8)

Free Thyroxine 17.700 pmol/L (Range: 12 - 22)

In September the Endo permitted me to have a below range TSH as I was feeling well at this point. The letter to GP lists the blood results as TSH 0.1 and FT4 at 16.3 (no ranges given but done at Addenbrookes.)

Medichecks test in mid December 2019 and these are the results

CRP HS 0.88 mg/L (Range: < 5)

Had been taking Naproxen for trigger fingers& pain in hand to jump through hoops before I could recieve a steroid injection, which I have yet to sort out

Iron Status Ferritin 71.2 ug/L (Range: 13 - 150)

Vitamins Folate - Serum 10.52 ug/L (Range: > 3.89)

Vitamin B12 - Active 150.000 pmol/L (Range: > 37.5)

Vitamin D X 215 nmol/L (Range: 50 - 175)

*** over range

Thyroid Hormones TSH 0.204 mIU/L (Range: 0.27 - 4.2)

Free T3 5.87 pmol/L (Range: 3.1 - 6.8)

Free Thyroxine 18.700 pmol/L (Range: 12 - 22)

Autoimmunity Thyroglobulin Antibodies 12.900 kIU/L (Range: < 115)

Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies 10.9 kIU/L (Range: < 34)

[Lora7again]

Welcome to the club. I got this horrible flu bug about 3 weeks ago and after taking 2 lots of antibiotics because I developed a chest infection I am still coughing and spluttering all over the place. The Pharmacist told me that it is a really nasty bug and resistant to some of the antibiotics which are being used to treat it. I have just finished a course of Co-Amoxiclav which are super strong but I am still not right. Your results look good by the way except for your vitamin D which is too high and can be toxic if you are not careful ... mine is a 100 and I feel ok .... except for this pesky bug!

[StillEverHopeful in reply to Lora7again]

Currently stopped the Vit D back in May it was 87.3 (Range: 50 - 175)

Yes lots of folk here have it or had it, my husband says he still doesn't feel right and he had it from about mid November. I think mine is viral as have an irritating cough, shortness of breath but no gunge to cough up. Last time I had a bad viral cough I ended up with 4 months of post viral fatige.

[Lora7again in reply to StillEverHopeful]

I didn't cough anything up and my chest was so tight I called 111 and they called an ambulance because I had congestion in my lungs. I would go and get your GP to listen to your chest if I was you. I will bring up my thread about it.

[AmandaK]

My husband and I are into the sixth week of this bug, which is dreadful and we have felt dreadful. We have an ongoing cough, sore throat and fatigue. Having had three different diagnoses from three different doctors (one said it was bacterial so prescribed antibiotics, one said I had developed an allergy against the virus and prescribed antihistamines and the third dismissed both diagnoses and said it was definitely viral and wouldn't prescribe at all...).

I would go to your GP as it could be that an initial viral infection has developed into bacterial and requires antibiotics. I hope you get a more definitive answer than I did!

[StillEverHopeful in reply to AmandaK]

Thanks I it’s a tough bug to shake.. husband had it first in November & he says he still doesn’t feel on top form.

I’m a bit reluctant to go to doctors as I had something similar five years ago when my breathing was worse than now I went back and forth had blood tests,chest X-ray & lungs listened to many times, once “a touch of pleurisy” was muttered but no treatment given. Compared to then my lungs are not bad.

My major worry is how this impacts my body’s need for thyroid hormones and discerning if any of what I am experiencing is because I need to tweak my meds.