Still struggling with my GP so decided to go private and see an endo.Had what I think is a fairly complete set of blood tests and would welcome your opinions.
Been suffering yet again with air hunger and was hoping the results would maybe shine some light on why.
The endo didn't seem to think any of the results would cause the hunger and to be honest I sort of got the impression that she didn't feel there is a link at all to hypothyroidism.
Anyway hopefully you good people would do me the courtesy of taking a look at my results and offer an opinion if you have one.
Sorry 1 half of the test is here and the other further down the thread
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All she tested related to thyroid is the TSH. And that is useless on its own. It doesn't tell you anything.
But, your cholesterol is slightly high, which suggests that your FT3 is low. And low T3 certainly could cause air hunger because air hunger is one of the major hypo symtoms.
Other results suggesting that you are under-medicated are:
Low B12
Low folate
And disasterous vit D!
Your sodium is also low/under-range.
No ferritin? That would also cause breathing problems.
So, she didn't do half the useful tests, and what she did do, she doesn't understand the results of. And you're paying this woman good money? Give her her marching orders!
😏 I find some of them very hard to follow... but like you say you are spot on with the low fT3 and all the other lows... and the less than useful Endo!!
Same as it means for everyone else. But, most importanly for hypos, it lowers stomach acid even further than being hypo, and it negatively affects the adrenals who need good amounts of salt to function.
Well, it's not really relevant whether low sodium causes hypo or hypo causes low sodium, the important thing is that the body needs salt, you can't live without it - not for very low, anyway. So, something needs to be done about it.
I would say low sodium is usually caused by this fixation people - especially doctors - have about salt being bad for you. At the right amount, it isn't. So, if your sodium is low, increase your salt intake.
Maybe it's due to low stomach acid. I don't know, but you could try increasing your intake. That might increase your stomach acid level and help with other absorption problems.
Hi, you need to 'aim' your reply at someone if they are to see it by pressing 'reply' beneath their comment... I'll tag in greygoose as I'm guessing this is for her 😉
I'm currently taking 150mcg.I was taking 175mcg but after my yearly blood test 2 months ago and my TSH being 0.3 my GP in her wisdom insisted the dose was reduced.
I'll get a iron panel test from Thriva.
Also I assume I can get a thyroid antibodies test from them also.
we tend to recommend Medichecks, Blue Horizon or Monitor my health for testing
Thriva has odd way of displaying results make it more confusing for patients to understand their levels
Many many members have very low or suppressed TSH on replacement thyroid hormones
The most important results are ALWAYS Ft3 followed by Ft4 and essential all four vitamins are tested and maintained at optimal levels for good conversion of Ft4 to Ft3
Low Ft3 leads to low vitamin levels
Low vitamin levels results in low Ft3
It becomes a spiral downwards, especially if dose levothyroxine is reduced inappropriately
Work on improving low folate B12 and vitamin D
Get full iron panel including ferritin
get small increase in levothyroxine
Then retest thyroid levels in 6-8 weeks
Test early morning, before 9am, only water to drink between waking and test and last dose levothyroxine 24 hours before
Test early morning, fasting. Don’t eat iron rich foods night before test.
Never supplement iron without doing full iron panel test for anaemia first and retest 3-4 times a year if self supplementing. It’s possible to have low ferritin but high iron
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