recent blood results

[Carriebaby]

so just had a call from my GP as my T4 result was low @ 7 And my cholesterol was 7.2

I’m currently taking 1 grain of natural thyroid should I up my dose to 1.1/4 a day and how do you bring down your cholesterol naturally

[Jaydee1507 Administrator]

T4 level is often low on NDT but what was your TSH & FT3 more importantly?

You can't decide a dose on just FT4.

What symptoms do you have?

What were your latest results for ferritin, folate, B12 & D3?

What are you supplementing with?

[Carriebaby in reply to Jaydee1507]

she didn’t tell me my TSH and my surgery won’t do at any other tests apart from T4 and TSH ! As for supplementation I take a good quality multi vitamin daily

[Jaydee1507 Administrator in reply to Carriebaby]

As most members here do I suggest you get a private test done so that you can accurately assess your levels. Private tests are available, see link for companies offering private blood tests & discount codes, some offer a blood draw service at an extra cost. thyroiduk.org/help-and-supp...

There's no such thing as a good quality multivitamin and anyway they are of no use to someone with hypothyroidism and associated poor vitamin absorption. Multivitamins are not recommended in this group for a number of reasons, including being too low a dose to raise levels to optimal, including iodine which is not recommended when hypo and including iron which prevents absorption of the other vitamins and should be taken apart from other vitamins/Levo.

Better to test levels and supplement specific levels with good quality bioavalable vitamins in a high quantity. We need OPTIMAL vitamins for our thyroid hormone to work well and theres no way any multivitamin will do that.

You are legally entitled to a printed copy of your results, ask at GP reception. In England you can get the NHS app and ask for permission to see your blood results on that by asking at GP’s reception.

What are your current symptoms?

[SlowDragon Administrator]

you will need to organise your own FULL thyroid testing 6-8 weeks after each dose increase in NDT

Test folate, ferritin and B12 at least annually

Test vitamin D twice year ideally

Recommend you stop multivitamins now and get full thyroid and vitamin testing done in about a week

Always test early morning and day before test split NDT as 2 doses. Last dose 8-12 hours before test

Only do private test early Monday or Tuesday morning

[greygoose]

Normally, high cholesterol is caused by low T3, so the natural way to reduce it is to raise your FT3. But, you really do need the exact numbers before making any changes. Can you not ring your GP's receptionist and ask for a print-out of your results, with the ranges?