Blood results back - heading towards hypothyroidism?

[KayS68]

Hi - I've posted a few times, so I'll give a quick recap (all the full info is in my previous posts):

7/2/20 - diagnosed with acute thyroiditis - in thyrotoxicosis - low TSH, high FT4 and FT3. Also WBC count was high, and platelets, and CRP. Renal panel showed a few "abnormal" things, and the GFR level was a bit low.

Had blood repeated on 25/2 - still same things showing and WBC even higher.

Last week had thyroid ultrasound results back - several nodules and 2 of which are larger and "suggestive of cancer" - so referred on 2 week pathway to endocrinology surgery.

This week had bloods done again and I think it might show I'm heading towards hypothyroidism, but it might just be that these are normal, I'm really so overwhelmed with everything that I don't know and it's all stressing me out.

TSH 1.72 (0.3 - 4.2) normal

FT4 11.4 (12.0 - 22.0) slightly low

FT3 4.2 (3.1 - 6.8) normal

CRP 8 (0-5) high (higher than even last test)

Speaking to my GP tomorrow - not sure what he'll say/do as next week is my endo surgery appt (but that is now a phone appt due to coronavirus). Next week I was expecting to have fine needle aspiration, but obviously that won't happen for now. I'm feeling overwhelmed, and totally unsupported and fed up!

I will go through all the information that SlowDragon gave me in my initial post, but just wondered if anyone is on, if they could give me their opinion. Thank you in advance.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Ft4 is 19% BELOW bottom of range

Ft3 only 29% through range

Vitamin levels need testing

[KayS68 in reply to SlowDragon]

Ok. I'll ask to get those re-tested. On 5th Feb they tested ferritin and b12 & folate - all were normal (ferritin and folate had both been low before) - but I'll ask, and vit D too.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to KayS68]

What were vitamin results in Feb?

What supplements are you currently taking?

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Are you still on propranolol?

[KayS68 in reply to SlowDragon]

No - I've been off that for about 2 weeks, the steroids I stopped then too.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to KayS68]

So you probably need to retest again after 6-8 weeks off propranolol.....it may improve slowly

Everything in thyroid world needs time to rebalance

[KayS68 in reply to SlowDragon]

Ok. Thank you - I just know so little it's frustrating tbh.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to KayS68]

Generally any change in dose of anything needs 6-8 weeks to settle, before testing

[KayS68 in reply to SlowDragon]

Right - well, I'll let this all settle down and I'll see what they say next week about the nodules and take it from there. Thank you again.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to KayS68]

What steroids were you taking.

[KayS68 in reply to SlowDragon]

Prednisolone - started at 30mg and tapered down to 5 over 6 weeks.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to KayS68]

That will also affect thyroid too