No Thyroid

[Pen1966]

Am I right in thinking if you have no thyroid you do not need antibodies testing? Not sure so if anyone could advise please 🙏 🙂 as want to order advanced thyroid test of medichecks that does tsh t3 t4 and antibodies but only if I need the antibodies test as well have no thyroid removed 32 years ago

[jimh111]

It’s possible that very high antibodies cause symptoms irrespective of effects on the thyroid but otherwise I personally wouldn’t bother.

[Lalatoot]

Pen, antibodies are really only useful to diagnose the reason for the thyroid problem as this will guide treatment for either graves disease or hashimotos.Thereafter antibodies fluctuate anyway so there is no need to test .

[Pen1966 in reply to Lalatoot]

Thank you

[Pen1966 in reply to Pen1966]

Thank you

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12 at least once a year

If GP won’t test, then cheapest option to test thyroid and vitamins together is Medichecks advanced test ….or BH

[Pen1966 in reply to SlowDragon]

All deemed ok

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Pen1966]

Vitamin D over 80

B12 over 500

Active B12 over 70

Folate and ferritin at least half way through range

[annnsandell]

It might depend why you do not have a Thyroid. I usually have Thyroid peroxidase tested as part of cancer detection once a year.

[Gingernut44]

If you only want TSH, FT4 and FT3 measured then Monitor My Health is the cheapest option. If you need your vitamins measured then Medichecks advanced thyroid test is best - antibodies are included whether you need them or not.

[Batty1]

Im thyroid-less only had my Antibodies tested because I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

[Moonwalker1967]

Hi, I have no thyroid and am menopausal. Piling on weight. GP told me that me taking Lthyroxine 100 mg is sufficient. I am very tall 1.75 metres and weigh 110 kgs. Does the weight and height not come into the dosage, too. Attached blood test results from GP. Thanks for your help.

[Moonwalker1967 in reply to Moonwalker1967]

Free T4 13.8Thyroid stimulating hormone 0.95