Recent blood results

[Gbunny]

Hi there - I recently had NHS health check and all good apart from thyroid , stating it was ‘slightly’ over and to reduce Levo, I suggested not as I feel perfectly fine at my sweet spot of 162.5. I later studied the blood test result and noticed that my basophil was 0.1 and alkaline phosphastase 173 (does this also indicate that I’m over treated ? ) prior to tests I didn’t take any vitamins for a week and took my Levo after test for NHS, however stupidly took Levo 1 hour prior to private blood test. I’m concerned about levels of cortisol too. I’m fit, have a healthy diet, gym most days. Pilates etc. I would really appreciate some guidance - if I reduce Levo Im worried that I’ll start feeling awful again

[GlowCoach Administrator]

The results are illegible. Can you repost them in the comments or type them out?

The only tests that reflect thyroid levels would be TSH, FT4 & FT3.

[Gbunny in reply to GlowCoach]

Hi there, thankyou for your reply. Sorry about that, here goes:

TSH <0.01. T4 29.1. T3. 6.3

T4 total 181.9. Anti- thyroidperidoxaseabd 269.0

Cortisol. 585.0

Folate. 24.8. Ferritin 38. B12 41

Hope this helps

[SlowDragon Ambassador in reply to Gbunny]

Presumably this is private test

Are you on gluten free and/or dairy free diet

What’s the range on folate?

Active B12 result of 41 is extremely low

Are you vegetarian or vegan

Exactly what vitamin supplements do you normally take

Ferritin also far to low

Request GP run B12 and folate test

If you’re not vegetarian/vegan you need testing for Pernicious Anaemia

And full iron panel for anaemia including ferritin

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

Serum ferritin level is the biochemical test, which most reliably correlates with relative total body iron stores. In all people, a serum ferritin level of less than 30 micrograms/L confirms the diagnosis of iron deficiency

Never supplement iron without doing full iron panel test for anaemia first and retest 3-4 times a year if self supplementing.

It’s possible to have low ferritin but high iron

Test early morning, only water to drink between waking and test. Avoid high iron rich dinner night before test

If taking any iron supplements stop 3-5 days before testing

Medichecks iron panel test

medichecks.com/products/iro...

monitormyhealth.org.uk/anae...

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

List of iron rich foods

dailyiron.net

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.

[Gbunny in reply to SlowDragon]

Thanks for your reply. Folate is 24.8 must admit that I’ve felt a little dizzy and jelly-legged at times. I eat very little meat, just chicken breast, I’ve gone off eggs too, I was told everything was fine when I went to see the health nurse a week ago - do you think I should make a further appointment to address this ?

[SlowDragon Ambassador in reply to Gbunny]

Was B12 41 test done on NHS

NHS never tests Active B12

Serum B12 range is typically 200-700

Needles the range on Folate - usually 3-20 or 8-60 approx

Check you have written results down correctly

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to GlowCoach]

Need to delete and repost as you have included personal details

[PurpleNails Administrator]

I have deleted image as contains personal information details.

please crop image if re-adding. or may be easier to type out results & lab range . 😀