hi
My recent blood work, this month shows tsh 1.71(0.35-4.94) higher than previous results.
Aic-5.9( 4.6-5.6) higher than previous results
Platlet count- 437( 142-346)
How do i lower my aic?
my alopecia aretera doesn’t seem to improve despite me taking biotin 5000 mcg, citracal + D3 - 400 mg calcium, vitamin D 12.5 mcg.
My endocrinologist says results are good!
Thanks
Have you tried a steroid scalp application to help?
No, I haven’t so far, the dermatologist did suggest. I am not too keen to try! I am 80. Thanks for your suggestion!
Hair growth is a side effect of certain eye drops if you’d prefer to try that.
Other than that, it might take some time after thyroid numbers are good before the hair grows back if it ever will.
I have glucoma, use latanaprost, eye dr says, it helps to have thiker eyelashes, i guess that should apply to hair on the head too!
How is your ferritin level? Low ferritin will cause hair-loss and stop it regrowing.
Another thing you could try is Evening Primrose oil and Borage oil. That is said to be good for regrowing hair.
Why are you taking calcium? That's really not a good thing to take.
Ferritin is 28.16(4.6-204)
Calcium for bones.
Primrose & borage oil capsules oil to massage scalp?
I'm not surprised you're having problems with your hair with that low ferritin! It should be at least over mid-range. You should try and get a full iron panel to see if your serum iron is low, too;
Calcium is not the right thing to take for bones. Yes, I know bones are made of calcium but I doubt you're deficient and excess calcium will make your bones brittle, so more easily broken, rather than stronger. Vit D is good for bones, but taking vit D increases your absorption of calcium from food, so you should be taking vit K2-MK7 with it to make sure that extra calcium goes into the bones and teethe, and doesn't build up in the soft tissues and arteries causing problems like heart attacks and kidney stones.
You should also be taking magnesium with vit D because the two work together. And magnesium is far more important for bones than calcium.
EPO and borage oil in capsules, to swallow. 
I take calm magnesium powder & k2 mk7 with vit d drops.
VitaminD 36( 30-100)
Folate 12.5(3.5-5.4)
Iron101(32-157)
Ferritin 28.16(4.60-204)
How do i raise my ferritin levels?
Will try EPO & borage oil. How much should i take?
Thanks so much!
Your vit D is very low, how much are you taking? How much magnesium are you taking?
Your iron could be higher but it's not too bad, so taking iron tablets to raise your ferritin is problably not a good idea. They could raise your iron too high but leave your ferritin low. You need to increase your consumption of iron-rich foods like liver.
Your folate is ok, but what about your vit B12?
For the EPO and borage oil, just take what it says on the bottle.
Vitamin D is in ng/ml
Vitamin D at 40ng/ml = 100nmol in U.K. units
So its slightly low
It's at the bottom of the range. Surely that's very low whatever the units are. I would have though one went by the range, not by what it translates to in UK units. Otherwise, why bother to have a range?
b12 882( 211-911)is v good.
I am taking 2500 iu , including citracal that has 500, mk7 drops has 2000 iu
Liverpate not liked or easily available here in usa. I will try to take iron rich foods & EPO.
Thanks for all your valuable input.
How about liver itself? Can you get that? That's the best source of iron. But be wary of vegetables, you can't absorb much from them. Spinach, for example, it's said to be very rich in iron - remember Popeye? Or are you too young? - well, it contains a lot of iron but you can't absorb it because it also contains a substance that blocks absorption by the human gut.
Also, when eating iron-rich foods, always eat a good source of vit C with it, to help absorption.
GG you are a breath of fresh air!
Thank you, BP.
low ferritin definitely causes hair loss, mines been low since March, had lovely thick hair, can now see my scalp as losing it mainly from the roots.🙁
get full iron panel test for anaemia
Meaning look at increasing iron rich foods in your diet
Eating iron rich foods like liver or liver pate once a week plus other red meat, pumpkin seeds and dark chocolate, plus daily orange juice or other vitamin C rich drink can help improve iron absorption
List of iron rich foods
Links about iron and ferritin
irondisorders.org/too-littl...
davidg170.sg-host.com/wp-co...
Great in-depth article on low ferritin
oatext.com/iron-deficiency-...
drhedberg.com/ferritin-hypo...
This is interesting because I have noticed that many patients with Hashimoto’s disease and hypothyroidism, start to feel worse when their ferritin drops below 80 and usually there is hair loss when it drops below 50.
Your TSH is a bit on the high side. Most people feel well when the TSH is 1 or even below. Have you had your T4 and T3 tested recently? If they are low, this would explain your rise in TSH.
In addition, you A1C suggests you are getting towards the pre-diabetic stage. If you do not have enough thyroid hormones, your glucose levels and cholesterol levels will rise, as your metabolism is slowed down and your thyroid hormones are too low to effectively clear these components from your circulation. This is NOT a dietary problem, it is a metabolic problem and should be addressed as such. Elevated glucose and cholesterol levels are classical hypothyroid symptoms (and in the good old days, physicians knew this and treated it correctly with more thyroid hormones).
I would insist on testing T4 and T3 and I suspect that your levels are low. Even if the endocrinologist says the levels are 'normal' or good (which basically means for them you fall within the normal range) this may not be good for you, as evidenced by your glucose being elevated!
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