Cheapest private tests at present

[SilverSavvy]

Does anyone know the cheapest/most effective place presently to get a full thyroid panel and vitamin test done next week? I like the look of the Medicheck one. And is there a code for Thyroid UK users to get a discount...?

Many thanks

[SlowDragon Administrator]

with strikes you’re unlikely to get kit delivered to you in time to do test on Monday or Tuesday and post back for Wednesday or Thursday

Check out when last posting dates are for each company

Monitor My Health is likely cheapest

List of private testing options and money off codes

thyroiduk.org/getting-a-dia...

Medichecks Thyroid plus antibodies and vitamins

medichecks.com/products/adv...

Blue Horizon Thyroid Premium Gold includes antibodies, cortisol and vitamins

bluehorizonbloodtests.co.uk...

If you can get GP to test vitamins then cheapest option for just TSH, FT4 and FT3

£29 (via NHS private service ) and 10% off down to £26.10 if go on thyroid uk for code

thyroiduk.org/getting-a-dia...

monitormyhealth.org.uk/

Monitor My Health also now offer thyroid and vitamin testing, plus cholesterol and HBA1C for £65 

monitormyhealth.org.uk/full...

[SilverSavvy in reply to SlowDragon]

I agree with your analysis Slow Dragon. Thank you very much for the info about the various companies. Probably IS best to wait til next year and go full private when (hopefully) there's a bit more certainty. Even if it costs me maximum.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to SilverSavvy]

You could buy the kit ahead of needing it

You get about 3 months to use by….check the date when it arrives

Presumably you’re thinking of vaccutainer kit

Take it with you to NHS test ….ask if they would fill it

or

Many members do DIY finger prick test

It’s easier than you might think.

If it’s a disaster, they send another

About 12 drops of blood required

Tips on how to do DIY finger prick test 

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

JB202

If you want thyroid antibodies included then Medichecks.

If you don't need thyroid antibodies but everything else then Monitor My Health's new test I mentioned in reply to your previous post (but you have missed the 20% off now):

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

Bear in mind postal strikes and the only way to guarantee it might get there pretty quickly is to pay for Special Delivery Guaranteed Next Day by 1pm as mentioned before.

Details of discounts here - scroll down then click on lab's name:

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

[SilverSavvy in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thanks SS, I've delayed on getting the discount because I've been trying to figure out whether more strike days might be announced. Whether with rail or nurses. As SlowDragon suggests, any Tuesday tests next week might well not make it in the post. Think I've decided it's too risky to even try next week because I want a full panel which is expensive and may well fall through the cracks this side of Christmas and therefore be a total waste.

I was hoping my NHS phlebotomist might be kind enough to give me some of the blood she extracts then but it's all a bit uncertain so I guess I'll just have to suck it up and go full private next month and pay extra for the blood draw too. It's such a lottery what the NHS in any given area will do. Talking to a friend yesterday she gets a full panel EVERY TIME she's tested. And I've never had one in over 18 months

[SilverSavvy in reply to SilverSavvy]

Sorry, MAIL not rail