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<blockquote data-quote="Peppergirl" data-source="post: 2253787" data-attributes="member: 330374"><p>I pushed for a referral to an endo which was due this month, but it was cancelled due to the lock down. Symptoms: acne forever (I'm now 42 and it's still a problem), fatigue, irregular periods, brittle dry hair and hair loss, feel the cold massively, like, can't get warm when everyone in the office is boiling, etc. Also, carpal tunnel out of the blue, weird as sugars normalised but, dunno. Also PCOS which apparently is at a low level according to a dermatologist I've seen, but GP told me everything is fine. I've been trying to get to the bottom of this for over a year, but symptoms for years.</p><p></p><p>Can you shed any light on these results? All have increased - now abormal except TSH. I pushed for an antibodies test and this came back as abnormal too.</p><p></p><p>serum free T4 18.5 pmol/L (increased steadily since 2015 and shot up 2019) - this is now 'abnormal'</p><p>Serum TSH 5.14 mu/L (increased from 1.92 in 2013) but this is 'normal'</p><p>se thyroid peroxidase Ab conc (antibodies) = 66 iu/mL which is 'abnormal' (range is 0.1 - 9, so very abnormal?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peppergirl, post: 2253787, member: 330374"] I pushed for a referral to an endo which was due this month, but it was cancelled due to the lock down. Symptoms: acne forever (I'm now 42 and it's still a problem), fatigue, irregular periods, brittle dry hair and hair loss, feel the cold massively, like, can't get warm when everyone in the office is boiling, etc. Also, carpal tunnel out of the blue, weird as sugars normalised but, dunno. Also PCOS which apparently is at a low level according to a dermatologist I've seen, but GP told me everything is fine. I've been trying to get to the bottom of this for over a year, but symptoms for years. Can you shed any light on these results? All have increased - now abormal except TSH. I pushed for an antibodies test and this came back as abnormal too. serum free T4 18.5 pmol/L (increased steadily since 2015 and shot up 2019) - this is now 'abnormal' Serum TSH 5.14 mu/L (increased from 1.92 in 2013) but this is 'normal' se thyroid peroxidase Ab conc (antibodies) = 66 iu/mL which is 'abnormal' (range is 0.1 - 9, so very abnormal?) [/QUOTE]
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