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[Juliet2020]

I guess we’ve been lucky reading here all of your other stories. Living in South West of England. It’s procedure to have your blood tested by a nurse in surgery once a year to check your TSH levels. I’ve been on Levothyroxine since 2011 at same rate 100mg. Every year I go to doctors and get a blood test. We get a free prescription card as we have Thyroid issues. I’m 40 years old and I never knew that what I have is life threatening. I feel for you all that don’t get the treatment you need. I remember being undiagnosed, it was so sluggish in those days but I was also a first time mum to a young baby too.

[Juliet2020]

I will be speaking to doctors today about other things. It’s annoying I have problems that need looking at and doctors won’t have you in surgery because of the virus. I will ask about my thyroid last results

[Juliet2020]

I just suffer with occasional anxiety caused by under active thyroid otherwise I’m well and I do gardening and walking and teaching everyday

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Juliet2020]

It’s also important to regularly retest vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12 too

These are frequently too low when we have hypothyroidism, especially when caused by autoimmune thyroid disease (most common reason for primary hypothyroidism)

Obviously just testing TSH is completely inadequate, but that’s typically all GP will test. Ft4 and Ft3 should always be tested too

Getting thyroid testing early morning before eating or drinking anything other than water and last dose levothyroxine 24 hours before test gives most reliable results