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Are my ferritin and thyroid worth checking

Started 30 December 2025 · 14 replies · 108 hearts · read 2.1k times

OttoPrague, CZ · 30 December 2025
7 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Are my ferritin and thyroid worth checking

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

I would like to hear timescales more than remedies. Knowing how long other people's lasted would turn this from an open-ended thing into a bounded one.

This started at the same time as two other things, which is why I cannot attribute it to anything with any confidence.

The physical part is manageable. What is wearing me down is the constant low-level monitoring of it, and I would like to stop doing that.

Thanks in advance. Even a one-line "yes, me too" would help more than you would think.

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#1

My experience was that protein intake mattered — not as a cure, but my dietitian flagged that mine had dropped a long way and correcting it seemed to help.

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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#2

Nyree has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

I found the counting worse than the shedding. Once I stopped looking at the plughole every morning the whole thing became much smaller.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#3

Facilitator note: pharmacists are the most underused people in this whole business and several of the questions on this page are ones they answer in ten minutes at a counter.

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GroverPortland, ME
#4

The thing nobody warned me about was that it kept going for a while after the trigger had passed. The lag confused me for months.

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MairéadMayo, IE
#5

Reading Annika, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

What kept me going was reading the older threads here where people posted at the start and again a year later. The year-later posts are the useful ones.

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WinnieCarlisle, UK
#6

No wisdom, just: I am sorry. That sounds genuinely hard.

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GudrunAkureyri, IS
#7

Two years on mine is back to how it was, slightly different in texture, and I no longer think about it at all. That is my whole update.

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#8

Mairéad — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I got a scalp check because I was worried and it was straightforward and reassuring and took ten minutes. I had built it up enormously.

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CoralieMarseille, FR
#9

Mine has thinned and stayed thinner, and I have made my peace with that, and I would not want somebody to read only the full-recovery accounts.

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DillyNewport, UK
#10

What I found hardest was other people not seeing it. It was enormous to me and invisible to everybody else, which made it lonely.

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FabianBasel, CH
#11

Mine was patchy rather than general and that turned out to be a different question worth asking about specifically. Please do describe the pattern accurately.

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MarthaCork, IE
#12

Coming back at the year mark to say it regrew. I promised in my first post that I would come back and say either way, and I am glad the answer was this one.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#13

Holding for a second on a habit rather than on anybody: people in this circle call their own symptoms trivial, and they are usually not. If you have done it on this page, I would rather name it than let it go by.

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BlySheffield, UK
#14

I wore it up for six months and nobody noticed anything, which I found simultaneously comforting and slightly annoying.

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