Hashimoto ?

[Cait23]

Hi Everyone, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto based on these results. The GP said that the lets get checked ranges weren't exact. Does this definitely mean I definitely have Hashimoto ?

I was put on NP Thyroid and now my Antibodies have gone up. I'm not sure why. I was doing gluten free diet. Another GP has told me to come off meds.

I'm so confused as I'm not sure I had hashimoto in first place.

[greygoose]

Hi Cait23, welcome to the forum.

If your antibodies are over-range - unfortunately, we cannot see the ranges - then you do have Hashi's. And full marks to the doctor that put you on thyroid hormone replacement.

The doctor that wanted you to come off it obviously has limited knowledge of thyroid and was only going by the hormone results all being within the range, and ignoring the antibodies - as most of them do.

Antibodies fluctuate all the time, and are highest during/after an immune system attack on the thyroid, when they are needed to clean up the blood. I'm not convinced that gluten-free diets have anything to do with antibodies. Trying a gluten-free diet is recommended because Hashi's people are often gluten-sensitive and it might reduce symptoms.

Can you give us the ranges for those results, please?