Folate and ferritin issues- please help

[Piggyoink]

Hello lovely community. I hope you are all managing to stay healthy and sane in these times! Once again I would be so grateful for your help:

I was taking 100mcg levo and 25 mcg lio at the beginning of the year. Bloods (taken as per advice here) in March were:

T4 22.2 (10-20)

T3 6.5 (3.5-6.5)

TSH 0.010 (0.5-4.4)

Folate 12.3 (3.0-17)

Ferritin 112 (12-300)

Vit D 119 ( 50-200)

Vit B12 958 (190-800)

I reduced Levo to 75mcg and increased lio to 30mcg daily, and my June bloods were:

T4: 13.7 (10-20)

T3: 5.6 (3.5-6.5)

TSH: 0.010 (0.5-4.4)

Folate: 6.7. (3-17)

Ferritin 74 (12-300)

B12. 458 (190-800)

I had previously taken B12 once a week so stopped it completely after the March results although I took my weekly dose just a few days before my blood test so that could have made the difference?

Although I’m in much better health than I was before, my low folate and ferritin levels continue to bother me. I sleep a lot and feel tired even though I am generally an active person.

Last year I was referred to a haematologist because of my ongoing ‘anaemia’ and she ruled out pernicious anaemia. She suggested that because of my ethnicity (South America) I could have some red blood issue related to it’s production in the bone marrow. She suggested a spinal tap late last year but I wasn’t too keen and now things have obviously changed and there is no improvement I was wondering if anyone here had similar experiences or even some of the magical advice you guys always give?

Thanks so much for reading this far... really appreciate it. Anything you can suggest/ update with will be gratefully received 💜🙏🏾

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Sorry you didn’t get any replies initially

Very common to need to supplement Vitamin B complex to maintain optimal B vitamin levels

Look at increasing iron rich foods in diet to improve ferritin

Iron and ferritin are complex. You can’t assume iron is low.

[Piggyoink in reply to SlowDragon]

Thank you so much as ever for being the thoughtful shining light for us all! Xoxoxo

[Lora7again]

I used to eat pate twice a week to bring up my ferritin levels.

[Piggyoink in reply to Lora7again]

Thank you so much for the tip 🙏🏾💜