However, you want to know what is going on with you, and it's that: you have Hashi's, which is slowly destroying your thyroid. The problem is making sure you are optimally medicated with thyroid hormone replacement, and that your nutrients are optimal. It's good that you're having zinc, copper and selenium tested, but what about vit D, vit B12, folate and ferritin? Have they been tested?
These results show 50mcg your dose of Levo is not enough. The TSH is still too high and the fT4 is quite low . You GP should be aiming to keep TSH under about 2 on Levo.
gponline.com/endocrinology-... "Replacement therapy with levothyroxine should be initiated in all patients to achieve a TSH level of 0.5-2.0pmol/L." Written for GP's by "Dr Iqbal is a specialist registrar in endocrinology and Dr Krishnan is a specialist registrar in cardiology, Liverpool".
gp-update.co.uk/files/docs/... "The goal of treatment is to make the patient feel better and this tends to correspond with a TSH in the lower half of the reference range (0.4–2.5 mU/l).
If a patient feels perfectly well with TSH between 2.5 and 5 mU/l there is no need to adjust the dosage" .
So (unless you feel perfectly fine at the moment) , your dose should now be increased to 75mcg , and TSH /fT4 retested after 6/8 weeks on 75mcg.
Also your Vit D is obviously very low . ( 10 -30 'insufficient' )
* your TPOab is very high ... but , it just means you have hashimoto's . (anything over about 500 is considered high.. lots of people with Hashimoto's will only have about 100/300 ... but some people do have much higher TPOab than yours, mine were >3000 , and somebody else on here had 6000... so don't panic.
Dairy and gluten free, season fruits and veg. Very little coffee and tea. Mostly vegetarian meals. But all homemade, with a rare treat of a pizza. Carry water with me. (And yes I drink from itl🤣
I'd say I'm at the back end of menopause now, been going through it for around 3 yrs after coming off of depo provera, which was an amazing change for me, I lost 22 kilos over 8 months.
So bear in mind I've been very poorly since mid Jan and wrapped up completely trying to keep warm, shorts weather is here and I have more energy to get outside, so I'm not concerned with the vit d at this moment, seecwhat the next test shows. B12 is already being supplemented now. So there's not really anything I can do until May and see the doc?
The antibodies number, not an issue? Just that it shows I have hashimoto.
Already on dairy free (hence asking for the b12 test)and almost gluten free. Purely because I have bad reactions to too much of either. So I guess I'm just going to have to cope until May , hopefully she will qbe happy to test regularly until a happy place is found.
As it happens, I'm taking half of my old 125mcg ATM, so am getting a little increase anyway, but can't do anything until May when I have an appointment, I actually don't feel too bad except the strange numbness I get. I think that may be zinc or selenium poisoning, get results for that 27th . If its not, don't know where to go next with that.
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