13 year old with hypo, hashi and low hemoglobin

[UshaSuryavanshi]

Need your advice!!

My daughter is 13 year old and is diagnosed with hypothyroid along with hasi's, her recent blood report are as below:

T3 5.12

T4- 12.79

TSH - 4.96

Iron 5.8

Hemoglobin 104

FSH 6.98

Ferritin - 4.45

She is low on iron / hemoglobin, currently on supplements but suffers from severe constipation and stomach aches, her periods are heavy and painful.

Are there any allopathy or homeo or other alternative medicine that can help alleviate the symptoms.

Kindly suggest.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Please add ranges on these results (figures in brackets after each result)

How much levothyroxine is your daughter taking

How long on this dose

Was test done as early as possible in morning before eating or drinking anything other than water and last dose levothyroxine 24 hours before test

Essential to test vitamin D, folate and B12 too

[UshaSuryavanshi in reply to SlowDragon]

The tests were done first thing in the morning, around 8 am she was fasting.Currently on 25mcg of levo is been prescribed, she is on this dose since last 1 week

Vit d and b12 was not checked

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to UshaSuryavanshi]

Bloods should be retested 6-8 weeks after each dose change

She will likely need further increase in levothyroxine over coming months

Typically dose is increased slowly upwards in 25mcg steps until TSH is around one

Low vitamins are extremely common when hypothyroid

There are lots of different iron supplements to try if current one doesn’t agree with her

It takes long time to improve low iron/ferritin

Constipation is also a hypothyroid symptom

Heavy periods are extremely common hypothyroid symptom too and should improve as she gets less hypothyroid

[UshaSuryavanshi in reply to SlowDragon]

thank you for the response, I missed adding her TPO anitbodies # 258.5and TG is at 1627

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to UshaSuryavanshi]

Confirms autoimmune thyroid disease also called Hashimoto’s

Has she had coeliac blood test done yet

Get coeliac blood test done BEFORE considering trial on strictly gluten free diet

[UshaSuryavanshi in reply to SlowDragon]

thanks, yes we are waiting for the results to come to confirm if she has celiac issue and I hope the results are not positive. following food restriction is very difficult for my teenager