Blood tests on ndt.....or not..🙄

[birkie]

Hi everyone ❤️

Just went to my surgery to pick my anticipated thyroid blood results from last Thursday....pause....no thyroid bloods have been done😤

I went specifically to have T4, T3, TSH done along with calcium and renals.

You just can't make this stuff up🙄

But I think the nurse mixed up thyroid with parathyroid 🤷‍♀️ she asked me what I was having done I said " a full thyroid panel T4, T3, TSH] and renals and calcium , upshot!! she did my PTH instead and its over range again 🙄 calcium is just at mid to high [ PTH....7....RANGE...1.60...6.90].....CALCIUM adj ...2.36..RANGE..2.10...2.60]

RENALS....CREATININE...106...RANGE...49.00...90.00]

eGFRcreat....49....RANGE...90.00...120.00]

SERUM UREA LEVEL...8.3...RANGE..2.50...7.80]

seems like my renals are not to good🙄

I do have primary hyperparathyroidism diagnosed for a second time in 2020 but nhs won't do anything 😡 and no gp as contacted me on these results 🤷‍♀️ so ....getting my actual thyroid bloods done next Thursday....[wait]....I'll get the print out and it'll be something completely different 🤣

I'm taking a printout of thyroid bloods that need doing for the nurse to study ....just incase 🤭

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Low GFR directly linked to being hypothyroid and will improve as your dose NDT increases

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl....

The GFR is reversibly reduced (by about 40%) in more than 55% of adults with hypothyroidism

Next step……get TSH, Ft4 and Ft3 tested

How much NDT are you taking

Day before test split as 2 doses

[birkie in reply to SlowDragon]

I thought that slowdragon about my kidney function but looking bk my renals were no where near this bad when I was off the synthetic thyroid hormone for 7wks🤷‍♀️ its mad

But kidney function is also linked to primary hyperparathyroidism which the only cure is surgery 🙄 obviously something the nhs are not bothering about, my PTH as Rose again I'm hoping it doesn't go higher.

As for ndt I'm now on one and a quarter grains and doing great, by that I mean no nasty bowel or stomach issues and no headaches or awful metallic taste in my mouth...its heaven 😀 ive also gained a bit of energy back, I don't feel as tired as I did on the synthetic stuff , I've even got back on my gym ball just doing some sit ups, taking it very slowly.

As this is the first time on ndt I did the same regime as t3 took my last dose at 5pm then had blood done at 8.15....obviously they weren't the correct bloods🙄 I split my ndt in to 3 lots 7am, 12 afternoon and 5pm so how should I prepare for the bloods this Thursday?

Thanks slowdragon❤️