These are my latest blood test results, I put them through the calculator.
Lately I have been getting a feeling that something is about to happen, my heart is thumping, I can feel it in my tummy too, my pulse seems to be rather fast. I looked palpitations up and apart from anxiety it mentions thyroid.
I hope it’s just my anxiety, I worry so much about my head wound, really wish it would heal but it could take months more. I was told up to 2 years. I had my op a year ago February. I want the way I feel to be down to that worry, I have been on 87.5mcg Levo since it was raised a year ago but now I’m wondering if I should go back down to 75mcg that I was on before. I just want to feel normal again and not as if the world is about to end!
Thank you.
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Yes testing was done correctly and I have always taken Accord Lev. Plus I do already use a 7 day dispenser.
Vitamin D hasn’t been tested.
B12 = 703 (180-640 ng/L)
Ferritin = 183 (30-204 ug/L)
Folate = 17.2 (3.0-20.0 ug/L)
PS: looking through my results on System Online they always say…abnormal but expected. I don’t know why they should say that if results are in range. Sounds rather strange to me and I don’t hear from docs about it.
Oh well doctors, how clued up are they? My ferritin has been over range significantly for years, like between 400-600+ in a range the top of which is 150. Not one GP has ever mentioned it despite it always being marked abnormal. I brought it up once and the GP was just looking blankly at me. Latest private test show it at 552. I don't bother to send my results to the surgery any more.
Thank you for your incredible patience while you have been awaiting the outcome of our ferritin reference range review. We conducted this with Inuvi lab, which has now changed the reference ranges to the following:
Females 18 ≤ age < 40. 30 to 180
Females 40 ≤ age < 50. 30 to 207
Females 50 ≤ age < 60. 30 to 264
Females Age ≥ 60. 30 to 332
Males 18 ≤ age < 40 30 to 442
Males Age ≥ 40 30 to 518
The lower limits of 30 are by the NICE threshold of <30 for iron deficiency. Our review of Medichecks data has determined the upper limits. This retrospective study used a large dataset of blood test results from 25,425 healthy participants aged 18 to 97 over seven years. This is the most extensive study on ferritin reference ranges, and we hope to achieve journal publication so that these ranges can be applied more widely.
That’s interesting, I wonder if they will circulate it to relevant health authority labs? I’m still a good deal above the top of the new range for women my age.
I must admit that I forget to take my D3 etc. and when doc asked me if I took D and I told him, only when I think about it, he laughed. I like the doc so I think it was more like a smile out loud.
I do always take a B complex every morning though.
I don’t have any vitamin results because the docs don’t test them. Most of my blood test was about my annual MOT. I had asked for my thyroid to be tested at the same time because I hadn’t had a test for a year. I was lucky to get what I had asked for. I can’t afford private testing.
Ellie-Louise has posted a high-in-range ferritin result and good B12 and folate.
Not everyone can afford any private testing at all. I suspect anyone living mostly or entirely on the state pension, for one example, would find it very hard to afford such tests. Indeed, long-term illness (such as hypothyroidism) very often results in the lowest income levels throughout life.
I dont read the whole thread when making a reply as I am generally making lots of replies and it would be too time consuming. Just doing what I can to help.
I'm being nosy, and I'm not a doctor, but how did you get a head wound that will take up to 2 years to heal? And how long ago did it happen?
Did you lose a lot of blood? I know that head wounds bleed like crazy. Did you require surgery? Was the actual quantity of blood you lost considered in your treatment, and was it replaced?
I don't know what the effect of heavy blood loss is on someone whose iron and ferritin are okay or close to okay.
Since I don't know the nature of your head wound and how much blood you lost I can't tell if these links are even relevant to you :
Based on your iron and ferritin levels, in your shoes I wouldn't be too worried about replacing lost iron from bleeding. I would want to replace lost B12 and folate but I see that your levels are those are quite good too.
One thing you could try that isn't outrageously expensive is treatments for diarrhoea on the basis that fluid loss leads to a loss of electrolytes. I take Dioralyte when I suspect my electrolytes are low. You can make your own electrolyte replacements at home, although the home made variety don't taste very nice... When I want to increase my sodium and/or potassium I put them into Ribena or take them with Ribena to make them more palatable. (I get severe cramp when my sodium or potassium or magnesium are low. I would suggest replacing missing magnesium if your kidneys are functional, but with kidney failure avoid magnesium unless under the supervision of a doctor.)
One obvious thing you can't change that affects wound healing is your age. The older we get the slower wounds are likely to heal. I've noticed this effect myself - I'm in my 60s.
Hi hb., my head wound is to do with an operation I had in Feb ‘24. During the summer of ‘23 I was out in garden when I felt a sharp prick, just for a moment, on the top of my head. A few weeks later I felt an itch and scratched it, there was blood on my finger. A couple of days later it was still bleeding and had enlarged so I saw a doctor who wondered if it could be a skin cancer.
She referred me to the dermatologist at hospital. That appointment came through for December when the dermatologist said it looked like a squamous cell carcinoma. He told me he would remove it. I had to wait for another appointment which eventually came through for last February.
So it was cut out and stitched up…the closure was a good 8-9cm and extremely tight because it was wider in the middle…imagine having to sew a circle together! I was told that it would heal from bottom up and could take 2 years.
The biopsy took another 2 months, resulting in NO sign of any cancer, they think it was some sort of immune thing from an insect bite.
Ever since the front bit healed (perfectly) the rest has been a problem. It has healed up to the top of the hole yes, but it has to finish by making skin I suppose because it surely can’t be raw for ever! So splitting open, bleeding, scabs tight after a while then edges open again…it goes on. It is bleeding today and very sore. I’ve been given steroid cream, derma creams, healing gel but after a while you don’t know what to do for the best. This is all extremely worrying, scared that I’ll never be able to get things normal again, you name it and I worry about it. My husband is an absolute star, he’s the one who checks and cleans it for me.
Since the op I have been back to see the dermatologist 3 times, and my next appointment is this July.
So that’s me…a complete and utter mess! with a few crocheted hats. BTW. don’t even attempt to crochet raffia, it’ll kill your fingers. I made 2 lovely crocheted sun hats, but never again.
If they cut out some of your skull in treating you there is a possibility it won't ever be normal again. I had fairly minor brain surgery about five years ago and the surgeon told me the hole he made through my skull would never completely disappear - and he was right. I have a permanent depression in my skull. It doesn't go all the way through of course, so has partly healed, but I do wonder how thick that part of my skull is now.
I still get some very occasional, very small scabs where the surgery was but I don't worry about them or the surgery any more. I've (accidentally) bashed my head on things a few times since the surgery and nothing dramatic has happened.
I remember the very tight stitches as well, and I was so glad when they were removed. I think they must be standard for brain/head surgery.
I think to help yourself you should look up "How to speed up healing of surgical scars" or "How to speed up healing of head wounds" or words to that effect. I know that healing relies on good levels of some minerals and vitamins but I can't remember what they all are. One thing I do remember is that a good intake of protein is required for healing. So eating meat, eggs, dairy might help.
No, my skull wasn’t cut, I did see what they cut out of me though. Funnily enough I had just been reading those links about healing, and we even had a cheese, bacon and tomato omelette for dinner today. I covered all bases with that one. 😁 Did your hair grow back?
Oh no, 😞sounds like we should form a club. Some of mine came out when I came off the pill in ‘76 and never grew back, then thyroid happened and now this! It is hard keeping cheerful about hair isn’t it. Grrrr!
I think thyroid disease, autoimmune diseases of various kinds, and menopause are probably the major reasons for female hair loss, and I've never found a way of overcoming it.
Once the hair follicles have been removed (as an unintended result of surgery) or have withered away or died there is no way of raising the dead even with nutrient supplements.
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