I have recently signed up the Our Future Health programme. I was invited along for a blood test and a finger prick cholesterol test. The cholesterol result came back as 10.14 and I was told to go to my GP. I had a cholesterol blood test at my doctors surgery in July and it came back as 6.1. I thought I was doing well with my diet but thinking about it I have had a lot of red meat recently. The other thing different is the pharmacy changed my brand of levothyroxine. Could a different brand alter my cholesterol levels that much?I have to go to the Dr 9am Monday for a fasting blood test.
Any advice is very welcome.
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High cholesterol is often due to inadequate thyroid hormone. Your last NHS blood test was just a TSH result, have you managed to get a private test done?
Monitor My Health offer a finger prick test for just under £30 if you use the discount code offered by Thyroid UK. thyroiduk.org/help-and-supp...
You really need to see where your FT4 & FT3 are.
Also your ferritin & folate were terribly low & you had to fantastic advice a few months back regarding these levels. Whats happened about them since?
Hi Jaydee, nothing has changed since my last post, I take supplements now and have just ordered a thyroid test from Medicare (or Medicheck) which I expect midweek so will have to wait until the following Monday to do the test. I think I need to change doctors but these days I think they are all the same. It really gets me down, I know how I feel, I explain all this to the GP and its like talking to the wall. They no longer care. Every test I have had this year I have had to dig my heels in for. Then they tell me I am fine. I dont know who they get to check the test results . I went for a MRI scan on Friday on my ear. The result will probably come back that I am a mushroom and not pregnant.
Hi SlowDragon, apologies for my late reply. I accidentally lost my first reply, do this is the shorter version.Nothing has changed since the last post. I take a B12 supplement from British Supplements and Berroca for iron. It is difficult trying to afford these as state pension does not go very far. And to be honest I sat and cried when trying to reply to your post because it all got a bit much. I am fed up of arguing with the doctors, I feel like I am the trouble maker patient. I felt I needed to write a letter of complaint saying they didn't listen to me after I saw the Dr (last month) to ask to change my B12 injections from 3 months to 2 months. When I checked the NHS app the Dr wrote I complained of dizziness. I never mentioned it. I also sent the NICE guidelines on how to treat B12 deficiency. Anyway they won't change the B12 and I am waiting for a response from my letter. Then getting the 10.14 cholesterol results on Thursday has floored me. I have a good diet, I cook everything from scratch, no ready meals or processed food, no white bread etc and the only thing that has changed is the levothyroxine brand. I have the fasting blood test in the morning, 9am, so will wait on the result. I know they will get onto me to take statins but I won't. I tried them a couple of times years ago and each time had a backache like no other.
Thanks SlowDragon for listening, just being able to put everything down has made me feel a bit better.
Igennus B complex popular option too. Nice small tablets. Most people only find they need one per day. But a few people find it’s not high enough dose
IMPORTANT......If you are taking vitamin B complex, or any supplements containing biotin, remember to stop these 7 days before ALL BLOOD TESTS , as biotin can falsely affect test results
In week before blood test, when you stop vitamin B complex, you might want to consider taking a separate folate supplement (eg Jarrow methyl folate 400mcg)
Post discussing how biotin can affect test results
Slow dragon, thank you for all your valuable information, which has given me plenty to think about. I have had my thyroid results back though I don't understand them. TSH 0.27 (normal range 0.38 -5.33)
T4 14.7 (normal range 7.9 -14.4)
I had taken my my 100mg dose of levothyroxine about 2 hours before blood test because I was told it a cholesterol blood test. However they tested serum TSH, results above. Liver, all clear and cholesterol and diabetes results have not yet been received.
I have a telephone appointment tomorrow to discuss the results.
Separate to this I have had a reply to my letter of complaint regarding my request to have my B12 every 8 weeks instead of 12. The doctor said she will test my B12, 11 weeks after my injection and if its low they will reduce from 12 weeks to 10. They will also test for folate, B12 and active B12 which, apparently is a new test.
Just stick to your guns about statins, you've tried them, they made you unwell. I dont think that hypos should be on them in any case. Its your life, your body, your decision. You dont have to justify it to anyone.
You are the person living with the consequences of their prescribing, not the GP. What ever happened to the idea of it being a partnership between doctor and patient, not the doctor trying to meet quotas and bully you into taking something you dont want?
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