No help from them I’m afraid, no-one explained what it is what the values mean, nada. I actually moved to the middle east and have private health insurance here and saw an endocrinologist. Printouts of my blood results, discussing how I felt etc. He whackd up my vitamin D as well. I think you are entitled to have a copy of your results (may have to pay for it). Don’t let them fob you off, i found out after moving that my gp had me literally at the bottom of my range. That explained why I felt so awful despit apparently being on a good dose.
If you don’t feel good, tell em. I’m a lot more assertive now that I understand a bit more about how thyroid hormones work. And no you won’t have a heartattack or get osteoporosis by being at the top end of the range. Honestly, I had to go away and do my own reading to get a grip with the whole thing but the most frustrating thing was the gps not bothering to show me what my actual results were and not really interested in how I felt as long as I was within range. I actually saw an endo in the uk on the nhs and he said he wouldn’t have bothered treating me as I was only slightly outside of normal values. At this point I had been getting to the end of the day and slurring my speech cos I was so damn tired.
Don’t worry about making a nuisance of yourself, do the reading ask if they check t4, t3 etc (unfortunately they don’t do reverse t3 here grr) and be honest if you feel like you could be better. because I hadn’t read enough about it And I had no idea what normal felt like I really didn’t have the confidence to say “actually I’m still a bit crappy”. If you are either on too high a dose or too low you are going to feel it. It is so frustrating to have to wait but you will get there x
Lol sorry that was a bit ranty, I just had years of feeling so blah I don’t want tht for you. Also there are online vit d testing sites in the uk as well where you just post them a pin prick of blood and they’ll send you the results. The vitamin d really helped me with muscle pain.