RE: help with blood tests results please

June 23, 2011

Obviously you have some underlying condition going alongside

your hypothyroidism that is stopping the thyroid hormone from being properly

utilised at the cellular level. Your TSH almost throughout all of your

treatment has been raised which could be quite simply down to insufficient

thyroid hormone replacement, or it might be that you are taking the wrong

thyroid hormone replacement. Attached is a document listing some of the reasons

why thyroid hormone might not be working as it should. Ask your GP to check

your levels of ferritin, vitamin B12, vitamin D3, magnesium, folate, copper and

zinc and post the results here, together with the reference range for each of

the tests done. Should any of these be low in the reference range, no amount of

thyroid hormone replacement can be fully utilised at the cellular level. A

'normal' TSH should be around 1 - a TSH of 3.3 needs investigation as it is too

high.

Luv - Sheila

April 2010 TSH 2.4 (0.5-5.5) nothing else, this test requested by

rheumatologist.

13/04/2011 TSH 3.0 (0.5-5.5) nothing else

27/04/2011 TSH 3.3 (0.5-5.5) :T3 5.1 (<7.1): T4 15.2 (11.5-22.7)Lab

suggests there is adequate replacement

TPO <25 (<35)

You have already commented on the final test on the list.

All the above results were said to be `normal`! I have another test on 6th July

after dosage was raised to 75mcg. The August 2006 tests were requested by an

endo`s clinical assistant/GP. I still have symptoms some of which stretch back

over 40 years. I have weight gain, muscle pain and hair loss. I hope to get

referral to endo on the list at next appointment. I am particularly interested

in the first TFT I had,if only I had known then what I know now! I will be glad

of any help anyone can offer on this,though I realise there isn`t much to go

on. Thanks

Chrissie

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Why thyroid hormone stops working (2).doc

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