Vitamin tests for Hashimotos

[Nessynu]

Hi all. What vitamin tests do you recommend for Hashimotos? Most of the at home tests I've seen only cover vitamin D, B12 and foliate. Do I need to test zinc, magnesium etc. Thanks

[greygoose]

No point in testing magnesium because it will almost always look good, even if you're deficient, due to the way the body handles magnsium.

But, you do need ferritin. That's very important.

[Nessynu in reply to greygoose]

Thanks you Greygoose. So vitamin d, foliate and ferritin would be the main ones to test?

[greygoose in reply to Nessynu]

And B12. The Famous Four.

[Nessynu in reply to greygoose]

Thank you!

[greygoose in reply to Nessynu]

You're welcome.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

For full Thyroid evaluation you need TSH, FT4 and FT3 pluss tested. Also EXTREMELY important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

What vitamin supplements are you currently taking?

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/when on T3, make sure to take last third or quarter of daily dose 8-12 hours prior to test, even if this means adjusting time or splitting of dose day before test

Is this how you do your tests?

Private tests are available as NHS currently rarely tests Ft3 or thyroid antibodies or all relevant vitamins

List of private testing options

thyroiduk.org/getting-a-dia...

Medichecks Thyroid plus vitamins including folate (private blood draw required)

medichecks.com/products/thy...

Thriva Thyroid plus antibodies and vitamins By DIY fingerpick test

thriva.co/tests/thyroid-test

Thriva also offer just vitamin testing

Blue Horizon Thyroid Premium Gold includes antibodies, cortisol and vitamins by DIY fingerprick test

bluehorizonbloodtests.co.uk...

If you can get GP to test vitamins and antibodies then cheapest option for just TSH, FT4 and FT3

£29 (via NHS private service ) and 10% off if go on thyroid uk for code

thyroiduk.org/getting-a-dia...

monitormyhealth.org.uk/thyr...

[Nessynu in reply to SlowDragon]

Thanks slowdragon. I got my full thyroid test results back and my next step is testing my vitamins.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Nessynu]

So what are your most recent vitamin results?