Fw: Parathyroid Hormone Increases Bone Formation

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From: " Barbara Hasenour <mtbears@...>

Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:25 PM

Subject: Parathyroid Hormone Increases Bone Formation

> Please Post ~ Parathyroid Hormone Increases Bone Formation

> PLEASE POST TO THE BOARD.

>

> This is from my doctor who understand not only " thyroid disease " but

also

> has first hand experience with a silicone suvivor relative whom he took

to

> Dr. Rea in Dallas for explant. He also has first hand experiece with

> thyroid disease that he inherited from a long line of thyroid disease in

> his heritage. He is double board certified and working on his third.

He's

> very " bright " ... and also practices intergrated medicine.

>

>

> Subject: Re: Fw: Please Post ~ Parathyroid Hormone Increases Bone

Formation

> Dear Barbara,

> Thanks for forwarding that evocative letter from the person who isn't

> doing well on Synthroid. There are several possible explanations and I

> thought perhaps I'd refer her, through you, to Dennis 's book,

> titled with no false-modesty 's Syndrome which is not the same as

> 's Disease, by the way. He has a web-site which I have been told

has

> about 7 pages of information which answers most patients' questions.

> I would recommend that if she is interested, she might ask her doctor to

> order a lab test for both freeT3 and reverseT3. It is essential to

compare

> the relative proportion of one to the other. The simplest way to do this

> is just to sketch them out on a line graph, and see into which percentile

> of it's " normal range " each falls. There is more to it than that, alas,

> but that is OK for starters. By the way, reverse T3 is rarely ordered and

> many lab techs will key in the wrong test, so the patient needs to be

> assertive at the lab! They may order a T3uptake or a total T3 (T3RIA),

> which ain't the right stuff.

> Actually, if she can get it done, the best time is to test at mid-dose.

If

> she is taking Synthroid once a day (the usual way), she will get the most

> reliable test results if she has the blood drawn at 12 hours after taking

> the pill. Very few doctors indeed take into account the rise and fall of

> blood levels, called " peak and trough " , when testing thyroid blood

levels.

> I find a lot of cases in which this consideration is important. Because

of

> this, she may wish to be tested also for TSH and freeT4 at the same time

> as the T3's. These four hormone assays will likely explain her symptoms.

I

> hope that this is helpful.

>

> Your friend,

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