My test results - advice on overactive please

[littlemissquestion]

Anyone offer advice. I have started with a few symptoms, raynards, very heavy periods and my thyroid is coming back as overactive. These are my second blood tests and the results are about the same. How overactive is it? Does anyone else have the symptoms of underactive with overactive results?

My test results are:

The only one which is abnormal is below:

Serum free t4 level is 27.100 pmol/l
It says the normal range is 8.0 to 18.0

[Barb135]

Doesn't really seem that you're hyper in spite of what your FT4 says.

TSH is Thyroid Stimulating Hormone.  It's a pituitary hormone that stimulates the thyroid to produce hormones.  It is not an antibody test.

[littlemissquestion]

I will have to ask about about the T3 test, i have been referred to the hospital so i am expecting more tests but not sure when i will get an appointment.

is the tsh the antibodies test? I came back normal for that.

not really losing weight, i lost 5 stone a few years ago and i spend my time trying to keep it off. No diarrhoea. Periods have changed, i couldn't leave the house because the flow was so increased.

[Barb135]

Can you get a Free T3 test done?  Did they also do a TSH with that FT4?

Are you losing any weight, or having diarrhea?

[Red_Star]

Global RPh's list of common laboratory values lists free T4 conventional units: 0.8 - 1.8 ng/L and standard international (SI units): 10 - 23 pmol/L. There is some mild variation in these ranges.  My free T4 is 10 - 20 pmol/L.

I had the opposite problem with hypothyroid labs with hyperthyroid symptoms. At that time I had Hashitoxicosis due to Graves antibodies. The only test showing I was hyperthyroid was thyroglobulin serum.

[littlemissquestion]

no that is exactly what it says, i cant get it to match up to anything online?

[Barb135]

Please check the result and reference range of your FT4...  Are you sure the range isn't 0.8-1.8?  And could your result be 2.71?