Hi everyone, I've just had some bloods done after three months on levothyroxine. I'd be grateful if someone could give me some advice as I still feel awful. Plus, and this is really upsetting me - my hair is falling out by the bucketload. I posted a blog about my journey to diagnosis in January if anyone is interested. To cut a long story short it involves me going from being a very happy in life triathlete to an exhausted, out of breath, muddy headed, insomniac, heart pounding wierdo - all within 2 years. This culminated in 2 weeks in hospital when my heart went crazy and a diagnosis of Cushings (now told that is not the case). Before Christmas I was finally diagnosed with hypothyroid, B12 and Vit D deficiency and offered counselling for my (non-existent) depression.
Since then I've been taking 125 of levothyroxine, 2 monthly B12 jabs and 20,000 a week Vit D.
I've also had one appointment with Doctor P who put me on adrenal support. I did start to feel better on this for a couple of months and then started to get more heart pounding so have stopped it for 2 weeks.
Ive just had my latest bloods and I'd be grateful if you could tell me what you think.
TSH
Serum T3 2.5 nmol/L (1.3 - 2.6)
Serum Free T4 26.1 pmol/L (12.0 - 22.0)
Serum TSH 0.04 mu/L (0.27 - 4.20)
Serum Vit D Total 25-OH Vit D >75 nmol/L (patient is Vit D replete)
25-hydroxyvitamin D2 level 7.3 nmol/L
25-hydroxyvitamin D3 level 82.6 nmol/L
Serum Vit D 89.9 nmol/L
Ferritin 284 ug/L(13-150) WHY IS THIS SO HIGH???
SERUM /IRON 19.4 UMOL/L (7.0-26.0)
SERUM TIBC 55.5 (45-70)
SERUM IRON TESTS 35% (20-50%)SERUM FOLATE 13.5 (4.6-18.7)
HAEMOGLOBIN ESTIMATION - 117 G/L (115-165)
RBC 3.93 10*12/L (3.80-5.80)
HAEMOCRIT 0.34 L/L (0.37-0.47) WHY IS THIS LOW?
MCV 87.3 (80-100)
MCHC 341G/L 341G/L (305 - 350)
RBC DISTRIBUTION WIDTH 12.3 (11.5-14.5)
TOTAL WHITE CELL COUNT 7.7 10*9/L (4-11)
NEUTROPHIL COUNT 2.8 10*9/L (1.8-7.5)
LYMPHOCYTE COUNT 4.1 10*9/L (1.0-4.0) WHY IS THIS SO HIGH?
MONOCYTE 0.8 10*9/L (0.2-0.8)
SERUM VIT B12 2000 (191 - 663)
Serum sex hormone binding glob >180 nmol/L (18 -114) WHY IS THIS SO HIGH?
SERUM CORTISOL 1109 NMOL/L (250-650)
I'd be so grateful if someone could give me their thoughts. I'm at a loss as to why I feel so crap still.
Thanks very much
Jo