Hubby's TSH/bloods and Cholesterol results - advice please?

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Can anyone help please?

Since realising that I have an autoimmune thyroid problem I have been more

conscious of the problem in other people! I hadn't realised that right under my

nose not only has my aged father got a problem but also my husband.

I looked back through all of my husband's blood results which oddly enough he

had always asked for but filed away. He has always had abnormal results for

several things but I took note of his TSH:-

2005 - 3.96 (0.4-4.0)

18/01/2010 - TSH 4.79 (0.35-5.5)

19/07/2011 - TSH 5.36 - I posted this one here and was advised he is definately

hypothyroid, therefore got his GP to repeat again:

19/03/12 - TSH 6.99 mu/L (0.35-5.5)

So you can see the trend is TSH rising - have to see his GP on Friday for these

result officially!

His worst symptoms are tiredness and unrefreshing sleep ( & lots of other

problems)

Other blood results were:

Cholesterol 7.0 mmol/L (3.0-5.0) this is the highest its been.

Now the reason his GP wants to see him again is because he has not been taking

Persantin, a drug to prevent clots as he has small vessel disease and a history

of mini-strokes. We spent an HOUR (honest!) with this doctor last week as he

was trying to persuade him to take this drug and we discussed risks. Also he

said he needed to see him again to discuss statins (he has resisted this so

far).

Meanwhile I asked for all of the minerals you mention here but he refused some

of them. It appears that even though the TSH is raised officially now, he will

want to retest in a month. He spent ages explaining away the trend of TSH last

week to improved reagents at different labs etc.

Could you comment re other results please?

T4 12.0 pmol/L (10.0-19.8)

Haemoglobin 13.8g/dL (13.3-17.3)

Total white blood count 4.5 (3.8-11.0)

Red blood cell count 4.51 (4.5-6.0)

Haematocrit 0.41 (0.4-0.5)

Platelet count 210 (150-400.0)

Neutrophil count 2.7 (2.0-7.5)

Lymphocyte count below range (1.2 (1.5-4.0)

monocyte 0.4 (0.20-0.8)

Eosinophil count 0.2 (0.0-0.4)

Basophil 0.0 (0.0-0.5)

promyelocyte count (0.01 (0.0-0.5)

vit B12 520ng/L (246-911)

folate 10.8 (5.4-20.0)

ferritin 92.6ug/L (20.0-300.0)

Previously he checked his Salivary Cortisol Stress Test on 26/01/2012 results

seem ok to me but maybe someone could confirm that.

Sample 1 17 (12-22)

sample 2 7.4 9 (5.0-9.0)

Sample 3 4.0 (3.0-7.0)

Sample 4 1.8 (1.0-3.0)

Total Daily Cortisol 30.2 (21 -41 nmol/L)

DHEA: Cortisol 0.45

DHEA Mean 0.14 (0.10-0.5)

DHEA Cortisol 0.45 (0.4-2.0)

I plan now to try and find something about the effects of thyroid hormones on

cholesterol so that his GP will agree to treat him for the hypothyroidism and

see what effect that has before giving statins or blood thinning agents (he

plans to give simvastatin and Clopidogrel). Bearing in mind he not only has

raised cholesterol but also small vessel disease with history of ministrokes).

He also has a history of polymyalgia rheumatica but was treated successfully

with steroids at the time. He takes blood pressure drugs and a allopurinol for

gout prevention. He has always been very fit and active but is noticeably going

down hill rapidly.

Thank you if you managed to get to the end of this and for any advise you can

offer.

Best wishes to all,

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