Help please

[Frenchee2019]

I just got back the result,

TSH 0,24 -Vitamin D 31-Vertigo on and off

What's going on? Monday I need to call doctor.

They do not want to add other test, I asked 5 times to get the vit. D tested!

I hate the American Health care and the insurance!

I need your opinion

Thank you.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Just testing TSH is completely inadequate

Are you diagnosed as having a thyroid problem?

For full Thyroid evaluation you need TSH, FT4 and FT3 plus both TPO and TG thyroid antibodies tested. Also EXTREMELY important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

Low vitamin levels are extremely common, especially if you have autoimmune thyroid disease (Hashimoto's) diagnosed by raised Thyroid antibodies

Low B12 can cause vertigo

Recommended on here that all thyroid blood tests should ideally be done as early as possible in morning and before eating or drinking anything other than water .

If taking levothyroxine........Last dose of Levothyroxine 24 hours prior to blood test. (taking delayed dose immediately after blood draw).

This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip)

Please add country of residency to your profile

Vitamin D is presumably in ng/ml

[Frenchee2019 in reply to SlowDragon]

Last month I posted" vertigo again", and after 2 weeks, here we go again. I went to a nurologist for the vertigo problem, and he is giving me a bunch of test to do.

We are so many in this forum with quesions😊, quite impossible to remember my post. I sent the doctor a text asking what dosage of vit.D should I take!

Tomorrow I will call the doctor again, and we will see what kind of dosage of synthroid she or he will prescribe!

Everytime I need to test my Thyroid level they just prescribe TSH, they refuse the rest of my request!

Thank you Slow Dragon🌺

[Frenchee2019 in reply to Frenchee2019]

I live in USA

[Batty1 in reply to Frenchee2019]

Why don’t you go see another doctor?

[Frenchee2019 in reply to Batty1]

I am considering to change doctor!

I'm just trying to see which one.

[coryblue3]

you asked for the test 5 times?! how did you doc respond??

[Frenchee2019 in reply to coryblue3]

It was like :" Your level was good last time". " We do not do it all the time" " You are still taking your vitamin D" Then I told her that last time my vitamin D was low and she didn't suggest the dosage, so I didn't know if I was still low.

So I was only tested TSH and vitamin D.

When we were in Germany we had the same insurance and the GP will do any test I suggested antibodies tsh -ft3-ft4 -vitamins ferratins all!

I honestly don't understand!