Test Results

[Miffi]

Hello everyone,

I had bloods taken last week, i take 50 mcg of Liothyronine daily, gp said he did not want to change dose, leave it as it is and have a blood test the end of July… has anyone got some advise for me? Thank you in advance.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Miffi

My advice - change your doctor. How can he not see that a below level FT3, when on T3 medication, means that you need an increase in dose 🤔

[Miffi in reply to SeasideSusie]

I thought that to, thank you Seaside Sisie

[Miffi in reply to Miffi]

Susie even 😊

[SlowDragon Administrator]

How did you do your test

When on T3, day before test, split dose into three smaller doses roughly equal 8 hour intervals. Taking last dose T3 at roughly 8-12 hours before test

When were vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12 last tested

[Miffi in reply to SlowDragon]

The same as you have said, they were last taken 2019.Thank you SlowDragon

[Hay2016]

If you’re feeling as rubbish as the results suggest you should be refuse and suggest he research thyroid. Holding thumbs you can get the gp to see sense or ask for referral if gp feels uncomfortable treating a specialised endocrinology condition.

[Miffi in reply to Hay2016]

Thank you Hay

[Shakeyjakeblues]

You are obviously under medicated yet your TSH is normal. Your doctor is clearly just using the TSH to judge your medication. Have you had your pituitary function checked?

[Miffi in reply to Shakeyjakeblues]

No i haven’t

[JAmanda]

Change doc immediately! Or at least complain at the surgery and ensure you don’t see the same one again. And more importantly get a referral to an Endocrinologist. Your levels suggest central hypothyroidism to me.

[CaroleM-A]

These results show clear as day that you are severely undermedicated and the GP, due to lack of knowledge is thinking the TSH is most important and T3/T4 don’t matter. You need to change GP or at least see a different one and get a referral to an endocrinologist You must be feeling dreadful

[Twitchen]

I am no doctor but would say that both your T3 and T4 are way too low. I thought my last T4 result was low at 10.3! As others have said you really need to see an Endocrinologist for further treatment. Trouble is even most of those are only interested in the TSH figure (mine is definitely). Keep trying to get some help from somebody, as you must feel terrible.

[CaroleM-A]

I would go back to a different doctor for another opinion on your blood test results. Both FT3 and FT4 are almost untraceable and dangerously out of range. The dose you are on is the lowest therapeutic dose of levothyroxine that they can prescribe and clearly isn’t high enough, hence the blood results. Ask them to increase it by 25 mcgm increments and retest six to eight weeks after each change.

[Beads]

You take 50mcg of T3? Yet your TSH is in range? T3 generally suppresses the TSH, 50mcg is a large dose. There’s something else going on that the doc needs to investigate. Referral back to the endo who prescribed the T3 to start.

[Miffi]

Thank you to everyone for replying to my post, i will post how i get on