Help With (Pregnancy) Results

[HarrietJW]

Hello,

I am 7 months pregnant and on 3 grains of Thyroid-S (2 in morning, 1 in afternoon)

The NHS doctors have finally tested my thyroid, though only TSH and T4. They have said it's low and referred me to an endocrinologist, who I am sure will try to put me on Levothyroxine.

I have gone ahead and done my own testing and would love your help because I am feeling a bit lost and pregnancy just adds to it all as I am also worried that the baby isn't getting what she needs.

Instinctively I am thinking increase by another grain in the afternoon.

What do you think?

TSH = 0.063 / Range: 0.27 - 4.2

T4 = 7.4 / Range: 12 - 22

T3 = 4.3 / Range: 3.1 - 6.8

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Vit D = 112 / Range: 50 - 250

B12 = 131 / Range: 37.5 - 188

Ferritin = 31 / Range: 30-207

Thanks in advance!

[pennyannie]

Your ferritin level is very low and you are on the verge of being classified as with iron deficient anemia -

cks.nice.org.uk/topics/anae...

and I read that no thyroid hormone replacement works well until ferritin is at least maintained over 70 :

[SlowDragon Ambassador]

Would you consider adding 25mcg Levo?

[HarrietJW in reply to SlowDragon]

absolutely. Do you think that would help?

[SlowDragon Ambassador in reply to HarrietJW]

Well it would improve your very low Ft4

If you were to increase NDT it’s usual to increase by 1/4 grain at a time

And you need to improve ferritin

Get full iron panel via GP

your baby has its own thyroid working making thyroid hormones by now

[serenfach]

Babies suck the iron out of you and they should have been keeping an eye on this throughout pregnancy. They also suck the calcium so ask if that can be tested as well. There is an old wives tale that you lose a tooth for every baby, but they did not understand how calcium worked then!