After being back and forth to the doctors with no answers for my symptoms I had a medichecks thyroid test and I've attached my results. The medicheck doctor say the high antibodies suggest that I may be at risk of thyroid disease in the future. I'm a little confused by this. I was convinced my symptoms pointed to a thyroid problem and I seem to have eliminated everything else via blood test etc. If I'm 'at risk' of it in the future, should I just have an annual test?
I'm new to all this but from reading other threads you all seem to have so much knowledge about thyroid disease so I would be grateful for any advice you may have
Thank you!
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Yes, your high thyroid antibodies and very low vitamin levels strongly suggest you are already on the road to being hypothyroid
High thyroid antibodies confirms autoimmune thyroid disease, also called Hashimoto’s
Extremely low vitamin D, very low ferritin, borderline folate
Low vitamins tend to lower TSH making it more difficult to get diagnosed as TSH is all most medics look at (including Medichecks doctor)
Take these results to your GP
Low ferritin
They should do full iron panel test for anaemia
Vitamin D is deficient
Guidelines are for GP to prescribe loading dose vitamin D and retest at end of prescription. You will need to take vitamin D supplements as maintenance dose everyday after this
You also need coeliac blood test done
What’s your diet like, are you vegetarian or vegan?
In all people, a serum ferritin level of less than 30 micrograms/L confirms the diagnosis of iron deficiency
Look at increasing iron rich foods in diet
Eating iron rich foods like liver or liver pate once a week plus other red meat, pumpkin seeds and dark chocolate, plus daily orange juice or other vitamin C rich drink can help improve iron absorption
This is interesting because I have noticed that many patients with Hashimoto’s disease and hypothyroidism, start to feel worse when their ferritin drops below 80 and usually there is hair loss when it drops below 50.
Thyroid disease is as much about optimising vitamins as thyroid hormones
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Thyroid antibodies.
Updated diagnosis of autoimmune thyroid disorder 
Thyroid antibodies but normal TSH
High Thyroglobulin Antibodies
