is it possible to develop hashi in a year? I tested negative a year ago

[Chouchou1234]

is it possible to develop hashi and antibodies etc

I tested negative a year ago

Is it something that I need to test again?

I read high Mercury can cause very low t3 …

That’s me!

[PurpleNails Administrator]

I would imagine there is a certain point at which you go from having a having no issues to having an autoimmune issues. 

Even then:

1) there may be autoimmune activity but antibodies are not present or not at a positive level.

2) positive antibodies does not always equate to a level of damage to affect function (to what’s considered a treatable level) 

The antibodies are “clearing up” what the autoimmune damage has cause. The antibodies are not the cause of it.  

Antibodies are useful for diagnosis but can’t be treated.

Often antibodies are tested once.  

The focus being replacing the hormones which can’t be produced.  

[Chouchou1234 in reply to PurpleNails]

ok thank you . My brain is not working so if I tested a year ago can I ask them to test again?

Sorry my brain isn’t working and now I’m thinking it’s Mercury poisoning

[Andie222]

That's a good question and I have wondered the same myself. My son tested about a year ago and his blood results looked ok, but I think he has hypo symptoms. I'm wondering how long it would/could take from developing symptoms to having TSH out of range. How soon would another test be worthwhile? I think that might be an impossible question!

[ICE187 in reply to Andie222]

In 2015, the only symptoms I had was a lot of weight gain and high cholesterol. I developed the Cushing's body. My tsh was 8 something at that time. The max reference range was 4.5. I was misdiagnosed at that time. In 2021 right after covid, I got blasted by a lot of hypo symptoms. My tsh was 13 something then. It was at that moment when I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and put on Levothyroxine.

[Andie222 in reply to ICE187]

That’s interesting. Sounds like it took quite a few years to go from 8 to 13 and then perhaps speeded up by covid.

[ICE187 in reply to Andie222]

Yes but the strange part is when I was on levothyroxine for 6 weeks, my tsh jumped to 17.22. I'm not sure why levo would cause a rapid jump in tsh. I was started on 75mcg, but I couldn't handle that much, so I cut them in half to 37.5mcg. After 6 weeks, I then took the 75mcg. 6 weeks later, I was put on 100mcg. A year+ into it, I am still on 100mcg. My tsh is "in range" but not optimal. I am about 90% better symptom wise. I gave up on fighting the doctors to raise my levo to 112.5 or 125mcg since I can tolerate what little symptoms I do have now. So yes, 7 years to go from 8-13 and 6 weeks to go from 13-17. I don't recall my current tsh number, but it's something like 2.6 "in range" lol.