Hi everyone needing your help as just had up to date bloods as still having alot of symptoms - sweating, aching joints, weight gain, bloating,low moods,agitation, sometimes I also feel like my face is bloating and get tingling around nose / top of mouth area and fatigue . Just wondering if it could be my thyroid or menopause?
I take 125/ 100 mcg alternate days and D3 cholecalciferol 10,000 iu once a week.
I previously was on block and replace for 2 years then stopped all medication as told by endo.
I have since moved area so now at different surgery and not under endo ( I was rediagnosed march 2020).
TSH 0.59 mu/l (0.30 - 6.00)
T4 14.2 pmol/L (10.4 - 24.5)
T3 4.3 pmol/L (3.0 _ 7.1)
Thyroid peroxide AB >1000 IU/ml (0 - 35)
TSH ReceptorAbs 1.3 IU/l (<1.0)
Folate 3.6 ug/L (3.0-20.0)
Ferritin 37 ug/L (10-291)
B12 249 ng/L (160 - 1000)
Vitamin D 53 nmol/L
Thank You
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I had a build up vitamin d prescription in march then was told to buy over counter ( endo recommended the D3 chol last time I was diagnosed 5 years ago) so been taking once a week.I'm not vegan or vegetarian, my diet is ok just commenced gluten free diet to see if this helps as not been good lately and now really fed up of feeling like this.
I will make appointment with gp to discuss but as you say drs dont deal with the vitamins/minerals.
Igennus Super B is good quality and cheap vitamin B complex. Contains folate. Full dose is two tablets per day. Many/most people may only need one tablet per day. Certainly only start on one per day (or even half tablet per day for first couple of weeks)
Or Thorne Basic B is another option that contain folate, but is large capsule
If you are taking vitamin B complex, or any supplements containing biotin, remember to stop these 7 days before ALL BLOOD TESTS , as biotin can falsely affect test results
With such low B12 result taking a B12 supplement as well as a B Complex (to balance all the B vitamins) initially for first 2-4 months, then once your serum B12 is over 500 (or Active B12 level has reached 70), stop the B12 and just carry on with the B Complex.
Eating iron rich foods like liver or liver pate once a week plus other red meat, pumpkin seeds and dark chocolate, plus daily orange juice or other vitamin C rich drink can help improve iron absorption
This is interesting because I have noticed that many patients with Hashimoto’s disease and hypothyroidism, start to feel worse when their ferritin drops below 80 and usually there is hair loss when it drops below 50.
Thyroid disease is as much about optimising vitamins as thyroid hormones
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Help with blood results please!
Blood test results help
Help with blood test results please
Blood results from Blue Horizon
