High Ferritin, liver clear but magnesium help, please.

[inthedoldrums]

Just an update to my high ferritin of 303(13-150) last month.

I had my liver ultrasound yesterday and was all clear on that, which was a relief. GP has done in depth bloods about 2 weeks ago so I am still waiting to hear back. Maybe she is waiting for the ultrasound results first.

I felt very sicky and 'liverish' when I was on Levothyroxine and this is slightly similar now I'm increasing my T3 only treatment, but nowhere near as bad and is tolerable and starting to improve a little now.

I am going to try to get in to their system to see if I can read the results regarding iron etc myself but I had no luck with that last time.

As suggested, I started taking magnesium but stupidly (I still don't know why) I ordered a mix which turned out to be mostly magnesium citrate and it upset my bowels (which are partly removed). It stated that it was all fully reacted, etc, etc.

I am still not quite recovered, which is a shame because I started to feel good results with my knees etc almost straight away.

I have now bought Magnesium Glycinate in capsules and am hoping to start on that soon. I plan to sprinkle it on my food and hope that will work.

Any advice on the magnesium front regarding the tummy department would be very welcome as i can't seem to find anything sublingual and I have read that Epsom salts baths only penetrate into the muscles and not the bloodstream.

Many thanks.

[SlowDragon Ambassador]

High ferritin

How old are you

Higher ferritin is common after menopause

Updated reference ranges for top of ferritin range depending upon age

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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.

GP should do full iron panel test to check if iron is high as well

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

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[inthedoldrums in reply to SlowDragon]

Thank you, that is really helpful. I am over 70 so just within range now. GP has taken loads of bloods for in depth look at iron etc. They have been really good on this actually. I have a Blue Horizon test waiting to use if I can't get results from them.

Best wishes to you.