Hello. Thank you for taking the time to read this. My blood results are in for vitamins and minerals plus CBC. My Graves is just two weeks in to treatment. I have antibodies to support Graves.
Haemogloblin
GGT 67 range (10-35) liver
ALT 53 range (0-30) liver
MCH 26 range (27-33) red blood
Creatinine 39 range (45-90)
Serum B12 877 range (179-600)
Neutrophils 1.7 range (1.9-7.5)
Ferritin 213 range (20-200)
Calcium 2.7 range (2.2-2.6)
Magnesium 0.7 range (0.6-1.2)
Folate 37.1 range <8.0
HbA1c 37 range (20-40)
This was a fasting blood test. No vitamins for a week prior and no carbimazole for 2 days prior. Calcium has been like this for 3 months. It has not changed. I have constipation, frequent ruination and drink a fair bit. Is it likely to be parathyroids.?Neutrophils have come down from 3.9 a month ago to 1.7.
GGT, ALT and ferritin has all decreased over the last 6 weeks.
I’m not really sure what is going on. Liver is under pressure from what I can see.
Thank you 🥰 NIKEGIRL
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Your liver enzymes are slightly raised so I would mention this to your doctor because the drug you are taking can affect your liver. My GGT went up to 159 at one time but it has now gone back to normal. Also your Ferritin is slightly raised mine has been over range for a while now which can mean inflammation so you need to keep an eye on that as well.
Hi. Thank you for reading the post and thank you for your reply. Appreciate the insight. I hope u r well now. Wow that GGT was high. My highest was 95 in June 2020. Ferritin was 253 a month ago so both are coming down. I really don’t like taking the carbimazole. I feel very sick on it. Dr is good. Thank you
GGT can be high after a night of drinking alcohol but I would be more worried about the ALT. My ALT has never been raised so I would enquire about that if I was you because it can mean liver damage if it gets really high.
I think when we have thyroid disease it can affect your liver. I do drink an occasional glass of wine but I don't touch any spirits. The one thing I do miss is coffee which I have to ration myself to one a day because the caffeine makes me feel hyper.
If I am honest it has taken me 3 months to come to terms with what is happening. I had planned to compete in a bodybuilding competition but that’s in the back burner. I’m like you and have to ration caffeine. Kindest regards always NIKEGIRL🥰
Were you on a special diet because of the body building? I actually joined a site several years ago to try to get some T3 because I was desperate because my GP wouldn't help. I didn't order any btw but when you feel so ill you will try anything to feel well.
I’m O+ blood. I need protein and fats mostly but not a lot of carbs. I trained with a professional bodybuilding trainer. For my last Bodybuilding show I struggled to lose body fat and the following year I had a breakdown. I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue but to be honest I think I was in trouble as my thyroid was TSH4.0. Body temp 35.5. Low blood pressure 90/70, low heart rate 42-48 and low mood. Do I think I have chronic fatigue. No. I didn’t step in a gym for a year. No one has medically has acknowledged my 2014 symptoms. All doctors have said it wasn’t my thyroid. I now don’t trust doctors and am struggling to take the carbimazole because ultimately I have to give up control and trust a dr which with every ounce of my being I do not want to do. I am stuck.
I don't trust doctors either having being fobbed off for 2 years and told I was suffering from the menopause. After 2 years I looked like the walking dead, my head was balding some of my nails had dropped off and I was a size 8. Some of my family and friends thought I had undiagnosed cancer which worried me a lot because my mother died from breast cancer at a young age. Things will get better with help and support from this site and other members who are going through a similar thing to you. I have found support sites here and in the US to be more of a help to me than any doctor I have every seen.
You have had a hard time. Everything will be ok. I am going to psychology. My last 6 years have been emotionally hard and I think that’s why I have Graves. My bloods are very bad. Like really bad. T4 is <100 with an upper range that stops at 20. And T3 is 48 with an upper range that stops at 6.0. The carbimazole makes me very sick so I am struggling to work. It will be ok. Psychology will help me work through the last 6 years and I just changed doctors and the new dr is very nice. He has called me at home because he is worried and he has said I can see him anytime. I can’t ask for better than that and I have to trust him. He has shown me nothing but kindness
I took PTU which is an older trusted drug because Carbimazole gave me a nasty rash. My useless Endocrinologist offered me counselling for feeling so ill and I just walked out of his clinic never to return.
Parathyroid tumors cause low Vitamin D, not the other way around, and low Vitamin D cannot cause a high calcium. You cannot treat a parathyroid tumor with high doses of Vitamin D.
If your calcium is even a little bit high and your vitamin D-25 is low, then you are almost guaranteed to have a parathyroid tumor and PRIMARY hyperparathyroidism. Keep reading--you do not want to take vitamin D! You do NOT have "secondary" hyperparathyroidism.
Hi Slow Dragon. No vitamin D test. Last test was June 2020 and was 54 range (50-150) so definitely too low. Have been taking 2000mg a day of vitamin D but I suspect you will say this is not enough S Magnesium is 700mg a day. Selenium 1000mg a day. Calcium has been over the range by .10 for 3 months now. It has stayed at 2.7 range (2.2-2.7). It is Friday night here in NZ. I missed his call but he has said he will call me Monday. My next Endo appt is 15 September and my next bloods are 9 Sept. I’m worried. I’m worried that if I have a tumour they will take out the swollen thyroid on the way to the parathyroids. Sorry. Why do I not want the vitamin d? Thank you. I know you give a lot of advice so thank you for your time.
Hi Slow dragon. On 17 June 2020 vitamin d was 54 range (50-150). No vitamin d supplementation before then at all. Calcium test on the same day was 2.7 range (2.2-2.6). No supplementation of calcium was ever given then or now. This result has stayed the same over the last 2.5 months, 10 weeks. I went to the website and watched the video. All I would say is their vitamin d was lower than mine but that’s not to say mine is not low. I did the calcium calculator and my calcium is suppose to be 2.5. Your thoughts?
Graves’ disease and parathyroid are not connected in anyway? By that I mean has the Graves’ disease brought on the low vitamin d and high calcium results. Thanks 😊
Hyperthyroidism can usually cause minimal elevation of serum calcium. Asymptomatic serum calcium elevation has been documented in up to 20% of patients with hyperthyroidism and is related to increased bone resorption [2] and subsequent release of calcium from the bone into the circulation.
Is it common for Graves' sufferers to have high Ferritin as well? As you know mine is very high and it does worry me a bit but I really don't want my ask my GP about it because he is useless. I did ask him about it a couple of years ago and he said the time to worry is when it got much higher and then I might have to give blood to lower it. Just to add I feel very well at the moment and I have no symptoms of being hyper. I did feel a bit unwell during the hot weather and after I had some upsetting news but I am ok now.
Thank you... mine has been over 300 for a couple of years now. I did think it was because of inflammation because my CRP was about 9 as well. The CRP had now dropped to about 5 so it has gone lower but the Ferritin has gone a bit higher unfortunately. I really want to get my blood tested but I don't feel safe visiting a hospital to get my blood drawn at the moment.
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