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Massive hairloss & anxiety -blood results help

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Hi, over the past 6 weeks my hair has been falling out in clumps and I feel very anxious. Is there anything in my blood that could explain?

I feel overmedicated. Sweaty hands, very frequent bowel movement

Tsh 1.7 (0.27-4.2)

ft4 17.6 (12-22)

ft3 4.59 (3.10-6.8)

iron 112 (40-150)

ferritine 50 (15-150)

transferritine 2.3 (2-4)

saturation 35% (16-45)

LH 11.7 (1-11.4)

FSH 7.9 (1.7-7.7)

estradiol 110 (33-298)

progesterone 9.13 (1.8-23.9)

Vit D 30 (20-60)

Can you be overmedicated when tsh is >1 ?

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Free T4 (fT4) 17.6 pmol/L (12 - 22) 56.0%

Free T3 (fT3) 4.59 pmol/L (3.1 - 6.8) 40.3%

Your blood results point towards being under replaced rather than over replaced. There is a large cross over between hypo & hyper symptoms and its more likely that you need a dose increase at the moment.

Do you also have results for B12 & folate?

Ferritin should be around 90 - 100 for best use of thyroid hormone. Suggest increasing iron rich foods in diet and eating them often. Chicken livers, pate, red meat etc

Link with ideas for dietary iron:

dailyiron.net/https://three...

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Sofie007 in reply to Jaydee1507

Hi Jaydee, thanks for the quick reply. I know it seems like I am not overmedicated but when I add more T3 I feel exhausted, down and sleep all day.

I will add more iron foods.

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Jaydee1507Administrator in reply to Sofie007

Your conversion is resonable. Try adding more Levo.

Make sure your B12 & folate are OPTIMAL.

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Sofie007 in reply to Jaydee1507

Last year my ft4 and ft3 were the same but there was no hairloss. I don't understand.

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Jaydee1507Administrator in reply to Sofie007

Symptoms do stack up over time. That combined with less than optimal ferritin and the symptoms are catching up with you.

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