My results

[Rushi1708]

Does it mean I am hypo?

[jimh111]

These results are marginal but given you have had half your thyroid removed and clearly have symptoms I'm sure you are hypo. What I'm trying to say is the results are less important than your history and how you are doing.

I'd try telling your doctor the guidance is for people with a whole thyroid and symptoms are supposed to be taken into account. If you get nowhere with your doctor I would ask for a referral to an endocrinologist. If you were under an endocrinologist before you could try writing to them explaining you now have symptoms. You don't need a GP referral to see a specialist you've seen before.

[fuchsia-pink]

Most doctors are TSH- obsessed ... yours is over-range, and in many countries you would now be treated as hypo. In the UK they usually make you wait until TSH is waaaay over range, sometimes as high as 10 and you feel very ill - before they treat you [which rather makes a mockery of having an upper end of the range which is already far higher than that seen in people with no thyroid issues].

You can sometimes get treatment if your TSH is over-range (which is it) in tow separate tests AND you have high antibodies, indicating Hashimotos. So I'd ask the GP for another blood test, ideally also including free T4 (which is a thyroid hormone and the next thing the GP will usually test) - and definitely including all thyroid antibodies.

Good luck x

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Looking that way

Why was half thyroid removed?

Do you know if you have high thyroid antibodies?

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

Ask GP to test vitamin levels (and thyroid antibodies if not been tested previously)

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 .

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

Is this how you do your tests?

thriva.co/tests/thyroid-test

Thriva also offer just vitamin testing

Vitamin D test via nhs postal kit £29 from monitor my health

Or here

vitamindtest.org.uk