IP6 stopping working
Hello.
I was using 1g of IP6 every day for the last 10 months to reduce my ferritin in the hope that high iron was the cause of my hypothyroidism symptoms.
I started whit ferritin at 313 ng/ml, then whit 5 months reduced it to 231, and now, in the last blood test, done on 08/15/2016, my ferritin is still at 230. I am very sad whit this, it looks now that I will need to do blood donation or phlebotomy (the problem is I faint when I give blood!!!).
My other blood results are: ( to note, I don’t take any medication)
TSH 5.09 uUI/ml Ref: 0,40 – 4,30 ABOVE RANGE
Free T4: 1,01 ng/dl Ref: 0,70 – 1,80 28,18% OF THE RANGE
Free T3: 0,34 ng/dl Ref: 0,20 – 0,40 70% OF THE RANGE
Fasting Glucose: 88 mg/dl Ref: 70-99 mg/dl
Anti-TPO: <39 UI/ml Ref: < 60 UI/ml YEAHH, NO HASHIMOTO!!
Anti-thyroglobulin: <30 UI/ml Ref: <60 UI/ml NO HASHIMOTO
Rheumatoid Factor: < 9,3 UI/ml Ref: < 14,0 UI/ml YEHAA, NO REUMATHISM !! MY LEG PAIN DON’T COME FROM THIS, ONE LEAST DISEASE!!
Fast Insulin: 7,7 Mu/L Ref: 3- 25 SO, WHIT THIS + FASTING GLUCOSE, NO DIABETES!!
Vit D3 : 77,9 ng/ml I TAKING 5000 IU OF D3, WHIL REDUCE TO 2000, NO NEED I MY OPINION TO HAVE D3 MORE THAN 50 NG/ML
Cholesterol : 264 mg/dl
HDL: 72 mg/dl
LDL: 158 mg/dl
Triglycerides : 62 mg/dl
So, I have high TSH, high cortisol, low free T4, good free T3 and high ferritin.
The curiosity is that my free T3 is at 70% of range, that is good, so indicating that I don’t have a conversion problem???
The question is: is my hypothyroidism caused by high iron or is high ferritin a consequence of the hypothyroidism? I remember a quote of Ray Peat saying that hypothyroid people have high ferritin due to inflammation, but my C-Reactive Protein and VHS are very low, I don’t have sight of inflation going on my body.
Just to ad is that my mother has hypothyroidism, and since I remember, I was a tired and fatigued child and teen. Maybe I had born whit it.
I will double the dose of IP6, will add too quercetin that chelates iron too and retest my ferritin in 6 weeks.
Thanks for any help.
Hello.
I was using 1g of IP6 every day for the last 10 months to reduce my ferritin in the hope that high iron was the cause of my hypothyroidism symptoms.
I started whit ferritin at 313 ng/ml, then whit 5 months reduced it to 231, and now, in the last blood test, done on 08/15/2016, my ferritin is still at 230. I am very sad whit this, it looks now that I will need to do blood donation or phlebotomy (the problem is I faint when I give blood!!!).
My other blood results are: ( to note, I don’t take any medication)
TSH 5.09 uUI/ml Ref: 0,40 – 4,30 ABOVE RANGE
Free T4: 1,01 ng/dl Ref: 0,70 – 1,80 28,18% OF THE RANGE
Free T3: 0,34 ng/dl Ref: 0,20 – 0,40 70% OF THE RANGE
Fasting Glucose: 88 mg/dl Ref: 70-99 mg/dl
Anti-TPO: <39 UI/ml Ref: < 60 UI/ml YEAHH, NO HASHIMOTO!!
Anti-thyroglobulin: <30 UI/ml Ref: <60 UI/ml NO HASHIMOTO
Rheumatoid Factor: < 9,3 UI/ml Ref: < 14,0 UI/ml YEHAA, NO REUMATHISM !! MY LEG PAIN DON’T COME FROM THIS, ONE LEAST DISEASE!!
Fast Insulin: 7,7 Mu/L Ref: 3- 25 SO, WHIT THIS + FASTING GLUCOSE, NO DIABETES!!
Vit D3 : 77,9 ng/ml I TAKING 5000 IU OF D3, WHIL REDUCE TO 2000, NO NEED I MY OPINION TO HAVE D3 MORE THAN 50 NG/ML
Cholesterol : 264 mg/dl
HDL: 72 mg/dl
LDL: 158 mg/dl
Triglycerides : 62 mg/dl
So, I have high TSH, high cortisol, low free T4, good free T3 and high ferritin.
The curiosity is that my free T3 is at 70% of range, that is good, so indicating that I don’t have a conversion problem???
The question is: is my hypothyroidism caused by high iron or is high ferritin a consequence of the hypothyroidism? I remember a quote of Ray Peat saying that hypothyroid people have high ferritin due to inflammation, but my C-Reactive Protein and VHS are very low, I don’t have sight of inflation going on my body.
Just to ad is that my mother has hypothyroidism, and since I remember, I was a tired and fatigued child and teen. Maybe I had born whit it.
I will double the dose of IP6, will add too quercetin that chelates iron too and retest my ferritin in 6 weeks.
Thanks for any help.
