High thyroid antibodies confirms that the cause of your hypothyroidism is autoimmune thyroid disease also called Hashimoto’s
About 90% of primary hypothyroidism is autoimmune thyroid disease, usually diagnosed by high TPO and/or high TG thyroid antibodies
Autoimmune thyroid disease with goitre is Hashimoto’s
Autoimmune thyroid disease without goitre is Ord’s thyroiditis.
Both are autoimmune and generally called Hashimoto’s.
Free T4 (fT4) 15.4 pmol/L (12 - 22) 34.0%
Free T3 (fT3) 4.72 pmol/L (3.1 - 6.8) 43.8%
This shows your dose is too low
Request increase to 112.5mcg per day
(100mcg and 125mcg on alternate days - or cut 25mcg in half for 112.5mcg daily)
Vitamin levels low BECAUSE you need dose levothyroxine increase
Ferritin
Aiming to maintain at least over 70 minimum
Look at increasing iron rich foods in 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
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.
That happened to me. I eventually had to stop levo and start on T3 only. As my health gradually improved I began fancying meat again and now eat a limited amount of it each week. I think my body was just unable to digest it because it was slowly shutting down anything it found difficult to cope with given that the levo wasnt being converted to T3 the format that enables it to reach the cells.
Very very low ferritin. The iron protocol on Facebook has some good advice as does Three Arrows (a company supplying heme iron). With your levels, it’s causing all sorts of issues!
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