RE: A lesson learnt, Long post

[Guest guest]

Hinow you have really got me thinking !!!! i only take one spatone sachet at night in a small amount of orange juice, i think its 5mg of iron.I wonder now wether to up my iron as i'm having these floors.Which iron are you taking please?love Sha xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxthyroid treatment From: lists@...Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:11:57 +0000Subject: A lesson learnt, Long post

[Guest guest]

Hi Nick

Good to have you back. I wondered where you had disappeared to

and hoped that it was not because of failing health, which obviously, it was.

We insist all the time that all our new members get their GP to test their

levels of iron, transferrin saturation%, ferritin, vitamin B12, vitamin D3,

magnesium, folate, copper and zinc tested. These are absolutely vital, because

low levels will stop thyroid hormone from being fully utilised at the cellular

level. Poor old you!

Regarding your iron test results. Telephone the laboratory where

these were tested and tell them that your GP has not got the results and ask

them to check that these were requested, and if the tests were done, ask for

the results and the reference range.

about to go out, so cannot answer any more but will speak later.

You have been missed on the group and many people asked where you were.

Luv - Sheila

Hi All

It's a while since I was following this group and even longer sonce I

posted, I was doing well and getting on with

life, time for e-mails had diminished and I dropped back for a while.

T3 only was suiting me but I needed a lot of it.

Across the autumn I started feeling " not right " and blaming it on an

infection. The main symptom was dizziness after laying down for a

while, the Drs didn't have anything useful to say apart from " it's

probably a virus affecting your inner ear, take these tablets to

relieve the symptoms but they won't make it get better any quicker " . I

checked the tablets and they affected the brain dopamine levels so no

thanks, I won't take them!

[Guest guest]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:43:20 -0000, you wrote:

>

>Regarding your iron test results. Telephone the laboratory where these were

>tested and tell them that your GP has not got the results and ask them to

>check that these were requested, and if the tests were done, ask for the

>results and the reference range.

Tests were not done, they regarded Hemocrit etc as being enough and

didn't test iron or ferritin.

Dr is good, he regards Ferritin as pretty useless in this case.

The saga continues, glad all is well here.

It was good health and a new relationship that took me away from the

group but a relapse this autumn.

Feeling a lot better now and on the up still, posted to try and help

others who may be in the same situation

Hope you are all OK

Nick

[Guest guest]

>

> Hi All

>

> It's a while since I was following this group and even longer sonce I

> posted, I was doing well and getting on with

> life, time for e-mails had diminished and I dropped back for a while.

> T3 only was suiting me but I needed a lot of it.

[Ed]

Hi Nick, 2 years ago i went to the Drs told Him i had symptoms of Anemia (i had

had Anemia before ,years ago when i had a twin Pregnancy,so i knew the

symptoms),he did a blood test and was told i was in range and was ok.I still

felt ill and could not understand it.Around 12 weeks later when i went for my

Thyroid blood test they did a folic acid test and iron as well.I was call back

to the Drs to be told i was deficient in Folic Acid,i could not believe what he

was telling me ,(even though i had complained of anemia ,they had waited for me

to go out of range ,to then tell me i was ill,how utterly stupid is that).I told

them i wanted a print out of my blood tests and found that my iron was very low

to.This was a lesson to me ,learn to read your own blood test and do not rely on

what the Drs are telling you.I am telling you this now in the hope that others

read this ,as the best thing you can do for your self in getting well is learn

to read your own blood test and listed to what your body is telling you. I'm

pleased your feeling much better.Regards Helen

[Guest guest]

Just curious what your FT3 was nick when you took 50mcg one hour before the

test?

I had something similar happen to me also the endo did not tell me he was going

to run thyroid labs, we agreed on iron, cortisol, and a few others but i thought

we had agreed not to run thyroid labs until my next appointment. So i had taken

quite alot of T3 and also taken T3 before the blood test, and my FT3 came back

29....

My next appointment should be interesting!

Glad things are looking up for you anyway nick your posts were always helpfull

on the RT3 group.

Steve

[Guest guest]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:12:18 -0000, you wrote:

>Just curious what your FT3 was nick when you took 50mcg one hour before the

test?

28 with a top of range of 6, pretty close to yours!!

Dr is good though, he agreed not to take more labs until things have

stabilised in a couple of months time.

Nick

[Guest guest]

Ah, new relationship eh! Hope this is a good one and lasts Nick.

Keep going in the right direction, and no turning corners and if you can help

others where you see they are having problems, please do so, we are in dire

need of help and support from 'those who know'.

Luv - Sheila

Tests were not done, they regarded Hemocrit etc as being enough and

didn't test iron or ferritin.

Dr is good, he regards Ferritin as pretty useless in this case.

The saga continues, glad all is well here.

It was good health and a new relationship that took me away from the

group but a relapse this autumn.

Feeling a lot better now and on the up still, posted to try and help

others who may be in the same situation