A friend has been diagnosed with thyroid nodules
Her results are:
TSH 0.51 (0.35 - 5.5)
T4 14 (10.5-22.7)
T3 6 (3.1- 6.3)
She has looked and felt unwell for at least a year. Her face is very puffy and she gets a lot of bloating and digestive problems. She also has bad anxiety.
She’s just had an ultrasound and biopsy, no results yet.
Any comments on her results given the above. They look pretty good for someone on thyroid hormone replacement, but she’s not taking any.
she also needs vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12 levels tested
And TPO and TG thyroid antibodies
Recommended that all thyroid blood tests early morning, ideally just before 9am, only drink water between waking and test
This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip)
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bit unusual to have T3 so much higher than T4,
a slightly higher T3 than T4 % is not out of the ordinary for healthy thyroids, see image below thyroidpatients.ca/2019/09/...
but T3@ 90%and T4 @28% makes you wonder if nodule might be chucking out a bit of extra T3 ?
which would explain the anxiety i suppose .....
My thoughts exactly
FT4: 14 pmol/l (Range 10.5 - 22.7) 28.69%
Oh, that looks like Hashi's to me! She needs her antibodies tested, as SlowDragon says:
Her FT4 is very low, suggesting that she has been hypo for sometime, which would explain why she's felt unwell for some time. Hashi's can cause sudden surges of excess hormone when the immune system attacks the thyroid, so that would explain her high FT3, which is totally out of kilter with her FT4. BUT, her TSH is not that low, which suggests that her FT3 hasn't been high for very long and the TSH hasn't had time to adjust.
But this is just a theory. The ultrasound should give more information, but she needs those antibdoes tested. If doctors had a clue they would have been tested right from the start!
Spot On GG. That's exactly what happened to me. I experienced palpitations too. This was for me a Tremendous awakening that something is very seriously wrong. I ended up having to have TT.Thank You GG for being so Astute.
Why did they do TT in your case, if you don’t mind me asking?
Sure.I ended up having papilary cancer. For years I was lamenting to my Dr that I was not feeling well. Only to be told my labs are great. But I was not well. They believed a peice of paper over my symptoms. I really believe had they taken my symptoms seriously from get go and treated my symptoms as they should have I really feel I would still be having my thyroids with the help of thyroid meds.
Medicheck's comments on daughter's thyroid results
Comments please on my sisters results.
Thyroid results query..
