RE: Tara's latest bloods

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Nuala, I have passed your message on to the forum that you

sent to me, as I cannot answer all the messages and becoming rather bogged down.

Hopefully, somebody can help here.

Luv - Sheila

You'll never believe this. I got stuck

out and couldnt get home in time to go to the GP with Tara, who poor thing had

to go on her own, aged 18! to talk thyroid. ALthough funnily enough it may not

hav ebeen a bad thing because he finds me very antagonisitc!

Anyway long

story shprt he is starting he ron 50mcg thyroxin to repeat the bloods in a onth

and possibly up the dose to 100mcg. He described her count ans very low and

that she would probably be on thyroxine for life.

Remember when

we went back for all the bloods you recommended the nurse went into the doc and

he absolutely refused saying only 'necessary' blood tests would be asked for.

We mentioned her low iron counts from before but they clearly didnt test these.

Tara asked for

her iodine level to be tested as this can be why goitre has grown and he

refused as he said the t4 would sort that out anyway. Id still like to knwo if

she is low on iodine.

Results on

28NOv showed

T4 11.9(12.6

- 21)

TSH 7.19(0.51

- 4.3).

T3 5.2 (3.39-7.7)

Previous

bloods history-

Free T4

(12.6-21) Oct 11 is 9.6; April 11 was14; May 10 was 17.6 Jun 09 was 7.5.

TSH

(0.51 - 4.3) Oct 11 is 0.09; Apr 11 was 3.11; Aug 10 was 0.03; May 10 was

1.15; Jun 09 was 5.98.

T3Not taken

this time will get redone next week. T3 (3.1-6.8) April 11 was 4.5 MAy 10 was

4.2 Juhn 09 was 5.1(Ref range then 2.6-5.7).

TPO (0-135)

Oct 11 29;

Aug 10 42; May 10 was 13; Nov 09 was 42.

Her

haemoglobin is at 12.17 ref range (12-18).

It strikes me

that Tara's bloods are better than even a month ago, and I can see the very

fluctutaing TSH which I know you've said is evidence from the antibodies at

work.

I'm no tsure

what to make of things. From her recent results how badly out of whack is

Tara's thyroid?

Also she'd

really like to know what time of day to take the thyroxine is there is a good

protocol which doc didnt comment on.

Also,what

about her supplementing of 12.5 iodoral, selenium and d3. ANy view on if she

should continue?

I still cant

inderstand how she doesnt display hypo symptoms, if anythign she is overactive,

thin a s a rake, always hungry, neck swells and reduces almost daily(I think

this is gluten related) .

ANy specific

guidance \sheila would be most welcome. WE most probably will gather the data you sent us and

write that letter for her files.

I must

confess to be ing nervous of upsetting the gp though. Some 10 years ago we were

struck off by a GP and it was a terrible shock, because they had no legal

entitlement to explain why, and I suspect it was because I was pushing for an

autoism diagnostic referral for my son. But it has left me nervous!

Thanks

Nuala