thyroxine

[Baileyleigh123]

hi my thyroid level was tested and my level was 1.3 I’m on 175 m of thyroxine but I still feel tired and it seems to take ages to fight infection I had a cold for 2 weeks do you think my thyroxine should be increased grey goose or anyone else know please

[SarahJane1471]

Hi, you’ll need to post the range and FT3 &FT4 if you have them. This will give people more information to go on.

[Baileyleigh123 in reply to SarahJane1471]

No I don’t have these sorry just the level x

[SarahJane1471 in reply to Baileyleigh123]

Contact your GPsurgery and ask for a print out of your results. You are legally entitled to them. Do you have online access? The results will be in there. Without the ranges it’s difficult to give advice.

[Baileyleigh123 in reply to SarahJane1471]

I have the nhs app but don’t know if it’s on there I will have a look Thankyou x

[SarahJane1471 in reply to Baileyleigh123]

It should be….., have look 🙂

[SarahJane1471 in reply to SarahJane1471]

Click on “ view your GP health records “ then look for test results

[Baileyleigh123 in reply to SarahJane1471]

Ok thankyou

[Baileyleigh123 in reply to SarahJane1471]

It says it’s not available x

[Baileyleigh123 in reply to Baileyleigh123]

I have looked it says this data is not available x

[greygoose]

One very important thing to point out is that the TSH is not your thyroid. It's not a thyroid hormone, it's a pituitary hormone. The thyroid hormones are T4 and T3.

TSH - Thyroid Stimulating Hormone - rises as thyroid hormones drop, and drops as thyroid hormones rise. It can be a good test for diagnosing hypothyroidism - but not always - but it shouldn't be used for dosing because once it gets down to around 1, it's a very bad indicator of thyroid status. Your TSH can be low, but that doesn't automatically mean that your thyroid hormone levels are high - as some doctors think - or even high enough to make you well. And, at 1.3, I'm guessing your FT3 is on the low side, and that's why you're still having symptoms such as fatigue. But the TSH alone won't tell you that. We need to insist that proper testing is done before our dose is changed, or that out symptoms are taken into consideration. Your TSH could be a lot lower, so there's plenty of room for an increase in dose, if your doctor insists on dosing by the TSH!

[Baileyleigh123 in reply to greygoose]

Thankyou I thought it was on the low side I’ve had depression for ages to my hair thin dry skin the usual x

[greygoose in reply to Baileyleigh123]

A TSH range is typically between 0.3 and 4.5, or something like that. But, it's not being in-range that counts, it's where in the range it falls that counts. And that's something you have to know, and doctors don't know! So, with a TSH, it's pretty much the lower the better. But, it's really not that important because TSH doesn't make you feel anything. It doesn't cause symptoms whether it's high or it's low.

It's T3 that causes symptoms, when it's too high or too low. Which is why it's the most important number but they don't even test it, as a general rule. Which is why I say that yours could be low - going by symptoms - despite the TSH being 'good' (depending on how you look at it).

Low T3 will cause depression and hair loss, and over 300 other known symptoms. So, you really need to know where it is. Would it be possible for you to do a private test? Details of private testing here:

thyroiduk.org/help-and-supp...