Antithyroid Antibodies

[sarahleeapril22]

Hi - if you have high antibodies, but a TSH within range, are you taking any medication to help with the antibodies?

[goolarra]

You have Hashi's, which is an autoimmune disease in which your antibodies are attacking your thyroid and desttroying its function.  This is progressive, and your thyroid is able to produce less and less thyroid hormone all the time, which means you have to increase meds to compensate for that.

Please post recent thyroid tests with reference ranges (they vary lab to lab and have to come from your own lab report.

Also, if you have them, please post labs from the time period when your symptoms were relieved.  A comparison of those two might shed a lot of light.

[noel367]

my thyroid peroxidase level is1740 - war is 36 - ana titer is 1:320(speckled)  my antinuclear ab is poss    my symptoms are severe body itching - sensitive to cold -hair loss , my thyroid levels are usually normal ! my dr place me on synthroid 50mcg - it relieved my itching for 2 months,but it is starting to return! dr does't know what else to do - please help I'm afraid the severe itching will come back(dr is endocrinologist )

[GravesLady]

I should have said, antibodies CAN be autoimmune in some thyroid conditions, not all.

[GravesLady]

Antibodies are not curable therefore there is no treatment, no medication.

However, what is treated is  your levels.  Normal levels no treatment.

A lot of people without thyroid condition can have antibodies. Antibodies are autoimmune and they attack the thyroid.  In hypos by killing the thyroid off slowly. With hypers making it produce too  much hormones. So these issues will show up in test through our levels. In which we are then treated and/or put on meds.