Blood levels way off

[sweetgen313]

                            10/31/12      Control                 5/15/12                    
WBC                     7.6              4.0-11.0
RBC                      3.30            4.0-5.10    L
Hemoglobin            9.4             12.0-15.5   L          12.6
Hematocrit             27.9            36.0-45.0  L           37.1
MVC                     84.7            82.0 -97.0              80.5
MCH                     28.6            28.0 - 34.0
MCHC                   33.7           33.0-37.0
RDW                    14.8            11.0-13.0 H              
Platelet                  478            150.0-400.0 H         318
MPV                      8.1             7.0-9.4
PMN                     56.2            43.0-76.0
Lymphocyte           36.4            15.0-43.0
Monocyte               5.1              4.8-12.0
Eosinophil              1.5               0-5.2
Basophil                 0.8               0.0-1.4
Neutrophil               4.27             1.5-6.50
TSH 3rd Gen           23.799          .34-5.6

[panda2526]

Hi there, have been following various posts on this site due to my own recently discovered issues as well as my husband's. Between the two of us, we need a whole team of docs.

Just a note on the thyroid. In iron OVERLOAD, iron stores on the pituitary gland and many people diagnosed with Hereditary Hemochromatosis are also diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Just a thought for you to get your ferritin AND your transferrin saturation, TIBC, and serum iron also checked. Simple blood tests but docs don't often include these in routine blood work.

Too much iron in body damages all organs, joints, tissues.

I have posted about this several times but wish to spread as much awareness about this as possible. Docs very uneducated and uniformed, yet 1 in 9 people of European descent are carriers and 1 in 200 or so will develop iron overload from having the genetic markers from their parents.

Take care, hope this might give you a direction to go in from here...

[goolarra]

Are you on thyroid meds?

Do you feel hypo?

Any number of factors, other than thyroid hormone levels, can affect TSH.  TSH is a pituitary hormone, so a very indirect measure of thyroid status.  If you just look at TSH, it's a little like determining the temperature of your house by looking at where the thermostat is set.  In a perfect world, that's a pretty fair estimate of the temperature...as long as the furnace is working...and there's fuel in the tank...and no one left the windows open all day.

I don't think anything that's off on your CBC would affect the TSH test.

[sweetgen313]

The rest is a CBC panel.  I was in shock to see my TSH was this far off.  Last check it was .50.  Since some of the other levels were off I wondered if it effected the TSH

[goolarra]

The only thyroid test there is TSH, and it's way over range indicating that you could be hypothyroid and further testing is definitely in order.  

Ask your doctor to order FREE T3 and FREE T4, which are the actual thyroid hormones and much more important than TSH.  

How do you feel?