Can anyone help with my blood test results?

December 20, 2011

Background info - had thyroid symptoms and test results showed slightly elevated

tsh. 18 months ago - prescribed thyroxine. Felt a tiny bit better. Increased

dose - felt worse again. Tried Armour - same thing happened. Stopped taking.

I've also been taking prescribed iron for 18 months and this was prescribed for

low ferritin levels of 18, but recently they've been in the 70's. For some

reason they didn't do ferritin this time.

Now I'm on no thyroid meds and have been for about ten weeks. Although my TSH

is high my T3 & T4 are ok, so should I feel ok? I feel better now than when I

was on anything or before I took anything, but I still feel pretty bad.(i've

also had saliva cortisol tests done and it was a bit above range in the morning,

a bit too low in the day and then a bit too high before bed)

I'm interested in the iron ones because two of them are just below reference

range but the saturation is in range. But I'd appreciate any comments about any

of the other results. My worst symptoms are hair loss and brain deadness and

sore joints and back and feeling 100.

Thank you.

Iron 12 umol/L ( 13 to 32 ) Auth

Total Iron Binding Capacity 43 micromol/L ( 45 to 80 ) Auth

Iron Saturation 28 % ( 15 to 56 ) Auth

Cortisol 416 nmol/L Auth

Comments :

AM sample

Cortisol 7 to 9 am reference range 119 to 618 nmol/L

Free T4 10.5 pmol/L ( 10.3 to 24.5 ) Auth

Comments :

Hypothyroidism in pregnancy must be well controlled.

In known cases TSH should be measurable and < 2.50 mU/L

Free T3 4.2 pmol/L ( 3.5 to 6.5 ) Auth

TSH 11.58 mIU/L ( 0.27 to 4.20 ) Auth

FSH 5.4 IU/L ( 2.5 to 12.5 )

Oestradiol 49 pmol/L ( 46 to 607 ) Auth

Comments :

Oestradiol reference ranges:

Oestradiol Follicular phase 46 - 607

Testosterone 0.4 nmol/L ( 0.22 to 2.90 ) Auth

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