Hi all. I have been feeling rubbish for the last 3 months, with all joints aching, starting in hands and spreading to all, stiff, numbness and tingling like pins and needles, exhaustion, major anxiety (which I do suffer from PTSD and anxiety anyway), irritability, nausea, vertigo, very poor cognitive function, memory loss, very weak, hard to get to sleep and sleep very broken, vision often poor and any physical activity such as even a shower exhausts me.
I have just turned 40 (currently feeling 80) and otherwise been of good health historically.
I got tests but only a nurse has followed up so I would like to know what you all think I should do next and what I could/should expect from when the Dr follows up. I would like to get to the bottom of this with the Dr quickly so I can resume my normal life. Thank you.
RF immunoturbiodometric: 14IU/ml (<14)
T4 (Free): 14.8pmol/L (12.0 - 22.0)
No T3 (Free) test which I understand would be a helpful test
TSH: 0.36 mIU/L (0.4 - 4.00)
FERRATIN: 12ug/L (20 - 200) which is obviously terrible. Would Thyroid function be low due to low ferritin or would ferritin be low due to thyroid function? I have only just run out of carbonyl iron I was taking so I am not sure why ferratin is so low.
My cholesterol tests are also of concern which makes no sense to me as I have a relatively healthy diet and my job is very physica so I am not lacking in exercise. I don't smoke, drink, take drugs and I am not on any medications.
CHOLESTEROL: 5.7mmol/L (<4.0)
CHOLESTEROL LDL (calculated): 3.3mmol/L with no normal range provided for me
If anyone could give advice or make sense of this chaos I'd be very grateful.
Carrie