Blood Test Results

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Please can you advise me on whether you think these results should be regarded

as " Normal No Action " which is what my GP has concluded. I have written the

reference range in brackets.

TSH 1.4 (0.10 - 4.00)

Free T4 11.8 (11 - 22)

(Free T3 previously requested by different GP but lab wouldn't do it)

Serum C reactive protein 2.4 (0.0 - 10.0)

Bone Profile

Calcium and Phosphate (GP put a comment calcium was slightly low - but not

action mentioned)

Serum Calcium 2.23 (2.15 - 2.60)

Corrected Serum Calcium 2.11 (2.15 - 2.60)

Serum inorganic phosphate 0.82 (1.80 - 1.50)

Serum Magnesium 0.93 (0.70 - 1.00)

Urea and Electrolytes

Serum sodium 141 (133 - 146)

Serum Potassium 4.2 (3.5 - 5.3)

Serum urea level 3.3 (2.5 - 7.8)

Serum creatinine 61 (45 - 100)

Fasting Plasma Glucose 5.6 (3.3 - 6.0)

Do you need all the FBC results? All were in range, either mid or slightly

lower than mid, except

MCH 31.8 (27.0 - 32.0)

Red Blood Cell distribution width 11.6 (11.5 - 14.5)

and

Stks Abs Basolphils 0

Percentage nucleated RBCs 0

Nucleated red blood cell count 0

I can list other FBC results, and also liver function tests, but they all seemed

fairly mid range and I don't know what they are or if they are relevant to this.

Erythrocite sedimentation rate 7 (1-31)

Serum lipids

Cholesterol 5.3 (<4.0)

HDL Cholesterol 1.6 (1.2>)

triglycerides 1.4 (<1.8)

LDL cholesterol 3.1 (<2.0)

cholesterol/HDL ratio 3.31 (<6.0)

B12 666 (180 - 1000)

Ferritin 43 (20 - 400)

(this may still look low, but 18 months ago it was 10, taking iron tablets it

dropped further to 9, then at last lifted to 31, then 33 just a few months ago.

I have been takig extra iron since discovering and following advice on this

list)

Red Blood Cell Folate 374 (80 - 400)

I am awaiting Thyroid Antibodies, which were requested. Also Zinc and D3. Of

course the lab may just not do them - this has happened before.

Just so you know the background for judging the Thyroid results, I have been

fiddling around (as my GP would call it if he knew - sorry, can't face the " eyes

to heaven " if I told him). I posted on this list about a month ago for advice

and have been trying to follow the advice in the file about changing from T4

only (I was on 150mg, which has worked for me for some years but recently have

so many symptoms which I think are hypothyroid again but the doctor said

couldn't be because of my previous blood test result - TSH the same but Free T4

16.1 - only about a month or so before these tests. I came off all

levothyroxine for a week and then fairly gradually built up taking Nature

Throid, which I have in half grain tablets - and have just this week started

taking 2grains a day. I did it a little quicker than I perhaps would have done

because of the dizziness I was experiencing, and such extreme fatigue, and my

feet are so painful I could barely walk (I have very hard split heels, but this

is pain in the ball of my foot). Also a lot of oedema. I just felt I needed to

get some thyroid hormone in me. I tried taking the Nutri Adrenal (the weaker

one) but I was getting such dizziness and thought it might be this, that I

stopped. I know I probably haven't done things as slowly and by the book as I

should have done, but I was so dizzy, exhausted, unable to think properly and

irritable in a way that I've never been in my life before. I was like this

before I started taking the Nature Throid, so it can't just be because of too

much T3.

I'm thinking of ordering some Erfa. Might things be better with that?

Where do I go from here? My doctor has asked me if I've ever feel suicidal. I

try to explain that it's not that, but that I do often feel that I am just going

to die because my body is just " stopping " , and that I just can't keep going.

But it is my determination to beat this that keeps me going in spite of my body.

I don't think that's being depressed.

I am very overweight, but again, they won't believe that it really doesn't seem

to make much difference whether I do or don't eat much.

I will be very gratful for advice as I don't know what to do, and it's no use

going to my GP. Neither are there any of the doctors on Sheila's list anywhere

near me.

Please help

Sue