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)