10.3 thyroglobulin

Measurable levels of thyroglobulin indicate that there is still thyroid tissue in your body. It cannot tell you if that's 'normal' healthy thyroid tissue (a bit that the surgeon didn't remove) or if it's thyroid cancer tissue. Normally, the Tg test tracks how this level develops over an extended period and one single higher result doesn't mean anything in isolation.

What you might find, especially if your TSH was less suppressed during pregnancy (which is not unusual), is that your Tg level has been 'stimulated' (boosted, so to speak) by your TSH control being relaxed. I would expect that once your TSH is back at a suppression level, the doc will want the thyroglobulin blood test repeated to see if it's still at 10 or more.

Hi barbaral

thanks so much does explanation is really helpful

im back again in 3 months so hopefully it won’t go any higher.

the consultant isn’t big on loads of questions  so I have stopped asking him 

thanks again 

Linda 

If your doctor doesn't like lots of questions, that's not a reason to not ask them. He's there to help you, not to crawl into his little cave and ignore you. You are entitled to be fully informed and to get answers. Take somebody with you to make you feel a bit braver if you think it might help. But don't let the doctor dictate the (lack of) conversation.

Hi Everyone

so I got my appt by phone today with the nuclear medicine consultant who is lovely and much easier to talk to.

So it was thyroglobulin antibodies that were 10.3 and not the thyroglobulin which was .4

he said that the antibodies can mask the results for thyroglobulin and that he would wait to see what my next results look like. He said if either levels rise he would look to do scans or treatment depending on how high they went but if they stay the same he won’t need to do anything.

I had bloods done last week and have an appt with my endocrinologist on 22nd December so will have to just wait and see if they are ok or not then