earlier ferritin +TSH levels thread - any help to Keri?

[Guest guest]

Hope no-one minds. I thought this ties in with Simone's answer to

Keri and likely to be of interest again.

As you can see, in my case the improvement to my ferritin levels did

not match an improvement in TSH which continued to rise. Since

posting that original thread I am now in the 3rd day of a trial of

thyroxine.

Tracey

>

> Now I have got a quantifiable result, I thought I'd start a

separate

> threat specifically for this subject.

>

> mid 1998 when I still felt ill months after son's birth - TSH=4.33

> I was only told " normal " . Wonder what my ferritin was??

>

> <Many years of continuing inexplicable illness and periodic

> bloodtests labelled " normal " >

>

> 02/11/05 (no ferritin result) - TSH=5.28

>

> 08/06/06 Ferritin level=18 - TSH=5.62

> following many years of chronic carbon monoxide poisoning. I was

> taking standard multi-vit and mineral supplements which claimed to

> supply a minimum of 100% of the RDA of iron. My ferritin levels

were

> too depleted for standard stuff to make any great difference.

> I then started to add 2 sachets of spatone daily to that.

>

> 06/09/06 (no ferritin result) - TSH=7.18

>

> 08/11/06 (no ferritin result) - TSH=6.10

>

> 16/11/06 (no ferritin result) - TSH=5.31

>

> 16/05/07 Ferritin level=30 - TSH=3.64

>

> 26/07/07 Ferritin level=24 - TSH=2.82

>

> 12/10/07 Ferritin level=30 - TSH=4.01

> after taking 600mg of ferrous sulphate pills since around May

2007.

> Conclusion - 3 months of ferrous sulphate pills were not absorbed

at

> all!! (Gave me constipation, heart-burn, evil-smelling farts and

> bleeding piles instead)

> Interesting drop down to 24 then rise back up to 30. I wonder if

> that rise happened AFTER I stopped taking the pills at the end of

> August when I went camping and couldn't face 10 days of digestive

> problems out in the wild? I replaced them with 4 sachets of

spatone

> a day for 1 and a half months.

>

> 11/01/2008 Ferritin level=52 - TSH=6.18

> after 2 months of Galfer Syrup. RESULT!! Will continue to take

this

> until GP advises otherwise.

>

> My sister also has very low iron and her GP informed her that he

> expects ferritin levels to raise by about 2 points per week in

> someone properly absorbing iron from high-dose iron

supplementation.

> My new results show I am well in line of that prediction.

>

> I have included my TSH results as I was hoping that some sort of

> trend would show. My endo has blamed my symptoms purely on low

iron

> and CO poisoning. My CO exposure ended in May 2006. Well, I

honestly

> feel like crap at the moment. In spite of my ferritin results

> improving, my TSH has worsened. To me that indicates my thyroid IS

> struggling and even improving iron levels hasn't helped it.

>

> I have been a vegetarian since 1987 and have a family history of

> women with thyroid problems and men with heart problems. I am not

> receiving any medication for hypothyroidism as I am still

> undiagnosed.

>

> --------------------------

>

> Please add your own ferritin levels and TSH data to this thread

and

> it may be interesting what sort of pattern emerges.

>

> Tracey