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ITP and abnormally high Thyroid antibodies & TSH

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3 years 3 months ago #71978 by ecvia1
ITP and abnormally high Thyroid antibodies & TSH was created by ecvia1
Greetings,
  I had ITP almost 30 years ago real bad and they ended up taking my spleen out to fix it.  
  About to have a physical, and my labs show very high thyroid antibodies and high TSH.
  I wonder if these alarming numbers are somehow related to my having had ITP all those years ago?  I'm physically good no health problems that I know of!  Maybe my thyroid has always been out of whack which caused the ITP years ago, I don't think they were looking at thyroid's and thyroid tests back in the early 80's.
  Thanks for any input in advance.  

Eric

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3 years 3 months ago #71981 by JJ
Replied by JJ on topic ITP and abnormally high Thyroid antibodies & TSH
Probably no direct link but when you've got one autoimmune condition, it's quite common to get another.

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3 years 3 months ago #71982 by ecvia1
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Well, shoot.
Thanks and Merry Christmas!

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3 years 3 months ago #71984 by Juliandrea85
Replied by Juliandrea85 on topic ITP and abnormally high Thyroid antibodies & TSH
Hi!
And your platelets are in good numbers 30 years after spleen removed?
My splenectomy remission "only" lasted for 10 years

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3 years 3 months ago #71990 by MelA
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I'm not in the medical field so this is just my opinion - if you had ITP 30 years ago and just now a high [hypothyroid] TSH I wouldn't think the 2 were linked.  High TSH could be Hashimoto's Disease/Thyroiditis, which is autoimmune.  If that is what it is you need to have it taken care of.  I happened to come down with Grave's Disease about 13 years after ITP diagnosis, Graves is hyperthyroid and also autoimmune.  

Talk with your doctor when you have your physical and you should be having that blood work done again.  My TSH was so low it couldn't be read so I had no idea how low it was.
"Instead of wasting your time worrying about symptoms, just get it checked out" -Nieca Goldberg, MD

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3 years 3 months ago #71997 by CindyL
Replied by CindyL on topic ITP and abnormally high Thyroid antibodies & TSH
I've had my thyroid issues for longer than my ITP.  A couple of weeks ago, I had to lower my dose of Synthroid/Levothyroxin (thyroid has always been low and now it's high). I'm on 2 different doses.
Nobody has ever told me there was a correlation between my thyroid and ITP.
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