Metavive and Adrenavive (phasing both out in favour of ones without nucleotides or possibly NDT )
Nov 20
IRON OVERLOAD
C reactive protein (0 - 6) <4
Ferritin (10 - 291) 93.1
Transferrin (2.5 - 3.8) 2.95
% iron saturation (16 -50) 23%
THYROID FUNCTION
TSH (0.35 - 5.5) <0.03
FT4 (10.5 - 21) 21.1
FT3 (3.5 - 6.5) 6.4
NUTRIENTS
B12 (211 - 911) 715
Folate (>5.38) 21.52
Thyroid tests high in range because I was taking a fairly high dose of metavive but reduced it because I was getting irregular heartbeat, high bp, sweating and headaches. Endo prescribed levo but I chose to reduce my metavive instead. Second test shows I reduced it too much so have raised it since and it feels about right but the weight is still climbing and that’s a post for another day because today my priority is trying to understand my iron situation
April 21
IRON OVERLOAD
C reactive protein <4 (0-6)
Ferritin 76.9 (10-291)
Transferrin 3.38 (2.5-3.8)
% iron saturation 27% (16-50)
THYROID FUNCTION
TSH 0.75 (0.35-5.5)
FT4 9.1 (10.5-21)
FT3 4.7 (3.5-6.5)
NUTRIENTS
B12 561 (211-911)
Folate 15. (>5.38)
Stopped testing D3 as last couple of times it was very high
Any insights would be gratefully received
Thanks
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Radd thank you. The question is now obsolete because today I got some new results and I’m now waiting for the rest of them (folate etc) to become available before posting again next week
Hopefully I’ll get a response. Not sure why I didn’t this time but it maybe because of the chaotic way I wrote it or that people just don’t have the answer. I know it’s a complex subject and I think humanbean once answered a similar query for me but I found it difficult to comprehend. I read some of the links someone sent at the time and got a very tenuous grasp which has now been lost and because my mental capacity at the moment is even worse, I feel a bit hopeless. Not in the sense that I feel there’s no hope in my life, just that I don’t have a hope in hell right now in getting to grips with it all
I myself am not understanding why you referred to ‘iron overload’ when your levels are appearing extremely low.
You haven’t included serum iron but T/S is only 27%, a high transferrin (carrier) is usually indicative of iron deficiency and ferritin (storage) backs this up at less than a quarter of way through range.
Iron deficiency risks thyroid meds unable to work effectively no matter what you medicate.
Hi radd, oops, I didn’t mean to give the impression that I’m feeling low, only that I’m so foggy-brained at the moment that I couldn’t possibly hope to understand the complexities of iron, ferritin, transferrin, etc
In answer to your question about why I called it iron overload; I didn’t. If you look at the photo and the first row of details, you’ll see that that’s the name of the test: Iron overload studies
I'm curious why you stopped the beef liver. I was just diagnosed with Hashimoto's and my practitioner is recommending beef liver capsules. As a plant based eater due to having CLL (a form of leukemia), I'm reluctant to add this.
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