Had bloods done x

[Spencejane76]

Over a year ago I got kicked in throat at work ended uo getting partial thyroid removal I've put on 2 stone and feel tired all the time sore joints dry skin swollen ankles to name but a few. I had bloods done at doctors and then by medichecks any help appreciated.

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[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Spencejane76

Unfortunately you have cut off the reference ranges in the first two pictures, you might want to delete those and resubmit the pictures to include the ranges.

As for your thyroid tests, both the Medichecks and NHS results will be considered normal. A normal healthy person would have a TSH of no more than 2, often around 1, with FT4 around mid-range-ish. Your results fit this criteria.

[Spencejane76 in reply to SeasideSusie]

Hope this is better x

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Spencejane76]

Spencejane76

There are a couple of slightly low levels and there's probably nothing to worry about but you might want to ask your GP to repeat Eosinophils test at some point seeing as it's been flagged as "Lo"

medicalnewstoday.com/articl...

As normal levels of eosinophils can be zero, a low level of eosinophils isn’t usually considered a medical problem after one test.

However, there are some conditions that can cause a low level of eosinophils, which is known as eosinopenia. An example of this is drunkenness. Others are some medical conditions that cause the body to produce too many steroids. An example of this is an overproduction of cortisol, which can restrain the immune system.

and Phospate is a tad low but the rest of your bone profile is fine.

Ferritin: 59 (13-250)

Ferritin is recommended to be half way through range. You're not iron deficient nor do you have anaemia so it's just a matter of raising ferritin which should be helped by eating liver regularly, maximum 200g per week due to it's high Vit A content, also liver pate, black pudding, and including lots of iron rich foods in your diet

apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/in...

B12: 380ng/L (197-771)

Ng/L is the same as pg/ml and according to an extract from the book, "Could it be B12?" by Sally M. Pacholok:

"We believe that the 'normal' serum B12 threshold needs to be raised from 200 pg/ml to at least 450 pg/ml because deficiencies begin to appear in the cerebrospinal fluid below 550".

"For brain and nervous system health and prevention of disease in older adults, serum B12 levels should be maintained near or above 1000 pg/ml."

Folate: 5.6 (3.9-26.8)

Folate is recommended to be at least half way through range so yours is low.

Both Folate and B12 levels can be helped by supplementing with a good quality, bioavailable B Complex such as Thorne Basic B or Igennus Super B. At the recommended dose of 1 capsule of Thorne it delivers 400mcg methylfolate and 400mcg methylcobalamin (B12) and 2 tablets of Igennus Super B delivers 400mcg methylfolate and 900mcg methylcobalamin. It might be worth starting with the Igennus to give a better boost to your B12 and retest in 3 months to see where your levels lie then. You may be able to reduce to 1 tablet of Igennus.

No Vit D test? If GP wont do this then you can do it with a private fingerprick blood spot test with an NHS lab which offers this test to the general public:

vitamindtest.org.uk/

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Suggest you get thyroid antibodies tested at next test

[Spencejane76 in reply to SlowDragon]

Does medicheck do this as my doctor not really helping.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Spencejane76]

Yes

List of private testing options

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

Medichecks Thyroid plus antibodies and vitamins

medichecks.com/products/adv...

Medichecks thyroid plus antibodies

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...

[Spencejane76 in reply to SlowDragon]

I made a mistake i should have had that one to start with that covered everything ill get onto that. Thanks again for all help dunno what I'd do without this group. Will post results soon x

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Spencejane76]

Suggest you improve low folate and B12 first retest thyroid in say 6-8 weeks

Extremely important to test vitamin D too

Aiming for vitamin D at least around 80nmol and around 100nmol maybe better

Are you currently taking any vitamin D?

Vitamin D NHS postal kit

vitamindtest.org.uk

Also vitamin D available as separate test via MMH

monitormyhealth.org.uk/

Always test thyroid as early as possible in morning before eating or drinking anything other than water

[Spencejane76 in reply to SlowDragon]

I got the vitamin d spray and b vitamins been taking these for a week now. So I wait 6-8 weeks before retest ?

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Spencejane76]

Have you had vitamin D tested?

If not, get that tested next ASAP

Yes definitely wait at least 6-8 weeks improving low folate and B12 ...before getting thyroid retested

[Spencejane76 in reply to SlowDragon]

Do j keep taking vitamin d spray or stop it before test if so how long before x

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Spencejane76]

No carry on, just don’t take it on day you do test

Only 4 drops blood on a card....very easy test

[Meanbeannyc]

Omg. I’m sorry to hear that. May I ask what you do for a living? You can’t open like that and leave us hanging. that sounds terrible

[Spencejane76 in reply to Meanbeannyc]

At the time I worked in an adult care home