Iron results - any help please?

[FoggyThinker]

Inflammation

CRP HS 1.850 mg/L (Range: < 3)

Iron Status

Iron 15.4 umol/L (Range: 10 - 30)

TIBC 57.1 umol/L (Range: 45 - 81)

UIBC 41.7 umol/L (Range: 13 - 56)

Transferrin Saturation 27.0 % (Range: 25 - 45)

Ferritin 123.00 ug/L (Range: 30 - 150)

Morning all, I've finally got round to checking my iron levels out. Pleased to see my CRP has now dropped from its previous level (which tallies with how I'm feeling) but I've no idea what the rest of this means, I'd be really grateful for any thoughts please?

Hope everyone's doing well

Edited with more readable results.

[FoggyThinker]

Aaaaand when I posted I got the "similar posts" to the right and  Beau55 got some great advice here healthunlocked.com/thyroidu... which I will read through!! (my ferritin is much higher though... I'll read that post and the others also linked, after work!)

[FoggyThinker]

OK looking at guidance here rt3-adrenals.org/Iron_test_......

CRP should be less than 1 so still some way to go and this is likely causing the high ferritin with low iron and low saturation. Which indicates (I think) that although I need more iron, I can't absorb it right now. And I shouldn't take T3 except low dose.

Edit again to add: I've been trying to increase my ferritin by eating liver every week, and it has increased from 81 in March... does that change things?

This is really interesting.

If I'm reading this right... my inflammation level is still high (although it is better), my guess is that this is probably because of low cortisol? I'm taking ACE/switching to CT3M as the ACE doesn't altogether agree with me, I'm guessing this is why the inflammation has dropped - my knees and ankles have been saying the same thing! So hopefully in a few months this will drop further and I can then retest, supplement iron if needs be, and increase my NDT dose?

I was overdosed at 2 grains of NDT (or more to the point, felt pretty good for a few weeks then started to feel my cortisol levels dropping, then tested and found TSH very low and FT3 just over range; dropped the NDT to 1.5 grains and felt very hypo/low cortisol, tested cortisol and found it low all day, tested thryoid and FT3 still fairly high in range) and found it took a long time for the FT3 to drop even on 1 grain. For my bodyweight 2 grains I think is a fairly low dose, I'm wondering if this cortisol/inflammation/iron issue is why I couldn't take more...

Gameplan: switch to CT3M and hold NDT at current level of 1.25 grains then HOLD ON with everything like that for maybe a month? longer? then retest cortisol, iron and thyroid levels - and see if I can then supplement Iron?

I'd very much welcome any thoughts on the above as it is VERY speculative!