Results are in!

[KHSC]

Good morning

Just received my recent test results. As I posted last week, I am very symptomatic but cam't work out looking at these what is causing it.

Antibodies are high again so wondered if I am just having a flare up which will settle?

Currently on 15mg of T3 and 75mg of Levothyroxine.

Gluten free, cut back on dairy and sugar.

Have a telephone consultation with endocrinologist on 18th.

Supplement B vitamins with additional B12. D3 & K2 and magnesium and vitamin C and zinc.

Any pointers you can give would be very much appreciated - thank you

[tattybogle]

both fT4 and fT3 are a bit higher than previous test on same dose ( fT4 a little over range now) .. and correspondingly TSH is quite a bit lower .

Could be a hashimoto's swing . (dumping extra T4/T3 that will go down by itself in a while) ... the increase in TPOab could be an indication that this has happened

or could be the dose has become a bit too much for your needs .

Many Symptoms of slight over medication can easily be mistaken for symptoms of undermedication....... even weight gain / loss is not an absolute certainty for distinguishing between over / under medication .

Either way , a small dose reduction would probably be a good idea to try ... i would reduce levo, since fT4 is the one that's over range.

if you take 75mcg you could try reducing to 67.5mcg or 50mcg

Then retest in 6 wks see where you are at with bloods and see how if it has improved symptoms .

if it is a hashimoto's swing , you may find you have to increase dose back a bit up at some point.

edit .. i'v e assumed you left the same time gap between last dose levo / T3 as you did for previous results .

[KHSC in reply to tattybogle]

Thank you, yes adjusted both doses to take account of the 9am test.

I will drop the levo dose to 50mg for 6 weeks and test again.

The antibodies results make me think it is probably a swing as they have been fairly normal for a while and it ties in with feeling unwell.