What should I do to improve my ferritin?

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It doesn't look too perky. Here are my December test results, that I got this

morning from my doctor, a new doctor that I had some hopes of, but he just

snapped 'normal! normal!' at me. And tells me that they didn't test T4 because

they won't do that unless TSH is over ten, though they did the first time I was

tested, oddly. (It was 14 on a range of 12 - 24).

Serum ferritin: 18 ug/L (13 - 150)

TSH: 4.11 mu/L (0.27 - 4.2 )

Vit B12: 504 ng/L (197 - 866)

Folate: 12.8 ug/L (4.6 - 18.7)

I had hoped this doctor would be a bit less obsessed with the N.I.C.E

guidelines, since he has started treating my hypo husband on a higher does

Levothyroxine and said he would have started him on it much earlier than was the

case. My husband has clearly been hypo for years, had half his thyroid removed

in 2008 for nodules, and STILL didn't get any treatment till a few months ago. I

don't know what his test readings were because he always forgets to ask. They

let him think for years that he had (intractable, untreatable) M.E./C.F.S, when

it was hypothyroid all along. So it's hardly surprising that I don't hold much

store by their magic TSH numbers...