Re: Thyroid testing - Attention Carolina karen

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I will get you the name of the test. I have it written down. I asked to have it done but my primary care would not order it for me. You can have it done if you pay for it. However my naturopathic doctor said we are just treating me for low thyroid. It would have just been helpful to see the levels.

Sue

From: Urbanczyk <featherednst@...>Subject: Re: Thyroid testing - Attention Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 7:25 PM

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By now you must think that I am picking on you. Please believe me I am not. You just brought up a very important subject. Our thyroids. Most people with Fibro have under active thyroids. You do not have to have all the "classic" signs either. I lose my hair but do not have cold hands and feet. My daughter has icy cold hands and feet but no loss of hair but cannot lose weight.

As for the testing it is only accurate in 30% of the worst cases. I have included a little blurb from Dr. Mercola on the subject. It is very frustrating because the average doctor will not do anything more than the THS T3,T4. Of course it is very cheap to do those tests. There is another test that is much more expensive and very sensitive. They will only do it of you come up positive with the above tests. Tell me how that is logical?? Oh, how I despise the mainstream medical system.

Even the Endocrin Society put out a paper saying that the tests above were not good measures of the thyroid because they measure chemicals in the brain not the thyroid and should no longer be used. How is it we are still using them then?

Sue

It is important to recognize that the traditional TSH guidelines are not sensitive enough to detect the majority of people who have thyroid impairment. I suspect that the numbers of individuals with dysfunctional thyroids are triple that quoted in the article. I have recently revised my Thyroid articles, which discuss thyroid diagnosis and treatment to make it more reader-friendly and understandable. The problem with TSH is that the reference ranges used are not quite accurate and TSH by itself is incapable of finding individuals who suffer with secondary or tertiary hypothyroidism.

It is great to see traditional medicine becoming more aggressive in trying to identify people with impaired thyroids. However, the next hurdle will be to convince them that synthetic hormones like Synthroid are a very poor choice for the vast majority of people with hormone impairment. The other central issue that is rarely addressed is that adrenal impairment will frequently cause secondary hypothyroidism.

This week I completed an interview with Shomon who is the thyroid expert at www.about.com. I will post it shortly, pending her permission to publish it before it reaches her newsletter. She has one of the best books written on the subject. It was just completed a few months ago and if you have or suspect thyroid dysfunction I would strongly recommend it.

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I still stand by what I said earlier, and no, not everyone has to have every single symptom listed, everyone of us are different, for different reasons, due to other health issues, we may have. I myself have been diagnosed by at least 3 different doctors, at 3 different locations and states, and have been under their treatment for hypothyroidism for about 24 years now. Over that period of time, I have been on 4 different thyroid medications, all different strengths. I currently see an Endocrinologist, who specializes in this and 2 other diseases I have in her expertize area of training. Anyone with any kind of hormonal issues, diabetes, or hypothyroidism should seek out this kind of specialist, if at all possible. Not every regular doctor can

correctly interpret these kinds of test results, and can really screw a person's health up if they do no know for sure what they are doing. Any kind of glandular problem like pituatary or adrenal, and hormonal issues are serious business, and should be carefully and thoroughly investigated and researched and studied. Your doctor should check your levels on an ongoing basis in order to make sure your levels are balanced within your own body. Doseage amounts will vary greatly from each other on what we must take daily. The variety of meds are also very controversial from one doctor to another. Plus our bodies react differently to every brand used for this purpose, doctors must be up to date on this matter, and listen to us if we still are not feeling our best we can. As long as your levels do not go over the highest range allowed, your doctor should listen to you, and adjust gradually upward in doseage amounts until your own blood test results come back

satisfactory and matches your improvement on symptoms you may have been having due to this disease process. Doctors call this method, twinking a bit. Although I am sure that is not a proper technical or medical terminology to be using, but we all understand that term anyways. It basically means gradually adjusting your doseage amounts of your meds they prescribe you for whatever condition you have, particularly with hypothyroidism. Anyways have fun researching topics of your own concerns for yourself and your loved ones this year. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, TAKE CARE, REST WHEN YOU CAN, DO SOMETHING WHEN YOU ARE ABLE TO, IT IS ALL ABOUT BALANCE IN ONES LIFE ISN'T IT. HAVE A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TOO!!! journeyintolife

From: Urbanczyk <featherednst@...>Subject: Re: Thyroid testing - Attention Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 7:25 PM

,

By now you must think that I am picking on you. Please believe me I am not. You just brought up a very important subject. Our thyroids. Most people with Fibro have under active thyroids. You do not have to have all the "classic" signs either. I lose my hair but do not have cold hands and feet. My daughter has icy cold hands and feet but no loss of hair but cannot lose weight.

As for the testing it is only accurate in 30% of the worst cases. I have included a little blurb from Dr. Mercola on the subject. It is very frustrating because the average doctor will not do anything more than the THS T3,T4. Of course it is very cheap to do those tests. There is another test that is much more expensive and very sensitive. They will only do it of you come up positive with the above tests. Tell me how that is logical?? Oh, how I despise the mainstream medical system.

Even the Endocrin Society put out a paper saying that the tests above were not good measures of the thyroid because they measure chemicals in the brain not the thyroid and should no longer be used. How is it we are still using them then?

Sue

It is important to recognize that the traditional TSH guidelines are not sensitive enough to detect the majority of people who have thyroid impairment. I suspect that the numbers of individuals with dysfunctional thyroids are triple that quoted in the article. I have recently revised my Thyroid articles, which discuss thyroid diagnosis and treatment to make it more reader-friendly and understandable. The problem with TSH is that the reference ranges used are not quite accurate and TSH by itself is incapable of finding individuals who suffer with secondary or tertiary hypothyroidism.

It is great to see traditional medicine becoming more aggressive in trying to identify people with impaired thyroids. However, the next hurdle will be to convince them that synthetic hormones like Synthroid are a very poor choice for the vast majority of people with hormone impairment. The other central issue that is rarely addressed is that adrenal impairment will frequently cause secondary hypothyroidism.

This week I completed an interview with Shomon who is the thyroid expert at www.about.com. I will post it shortly, pending her permission to publish it before it reaches her newsletter. She has one of the best books written on the subject. It was just completed a few months ago and if you have or suspect thyroid dysfunction I would strongly recommend it.

Living Well With Hypothyroidism

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Okay, thanks Sue.

Carolina

From: Urbanczyk <featherednst@...>Subject: Re: Thyroid testing - Attention Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 7:25 PM

,

By now you must think that I am picking on you. Please believe me I am not. You just brought up a very important subject. Our thyroids. Most people with Fibro have under active thyroids. You do not have to have all the "classic" signs either. I lose my hair but do not have cold hands and feet. My daughter has icy cold hands and feet but no loss of hair but cannot lose weight.

As for the testing it is only accurate in 30% of the worst cases. I have included a little blurb from Dr. Mercola on the subject. It is very frustrating because the average doctor will not do anything more than the THS T3,T4. Of course it is very cheap to do those tests. There is another test that is much more expensive and very sensitive. They will only do it of you come up positive with the above tests. Tell me how that is logical?? Oh, how I despise the mainstream medical system.

Even the Endocrin Society put out a paper saying that the tests above were not good measures of the thyroid because they measure chemicals in the brain not the thyroid and should no longer be used. How is it we are still using them then?

Sue

It is important to recognize that the traditional TSH guidelines are not sensitive enough to detect the majority of people who have thyroid impairment. I suspect that the numbers of individuals with dysfunctional thyroids are triple that quoted in the article. I have recently revised my Thyroid articles, which discuss thyroid diagnosis and treatment to make it more reader-friendly and understandable. The problem with TSH is that the reference ranges used are not quite accurate and TSH by itself is incapable of finding individuals who suffer with secondary or tertiary hypothyroidism.

It is great to see traditional medicine becoming more aggressive in trying to identify people with impaired thyroids. However, the next hurdle will be to convince them that synthetic hormones like Synthroid are a very poor choice for the vast majority of people with hormone impairment. The other central issue that is rarely addressed is that adrenal impairment will frequently cause secondary hypothyroidism.

This week I completed an interview with Shomon who is the thyroid expert at www.about.com. I will post it shortly, pending her permission to publish it before it reaches her newsletter. She has one of the best books written on the subject. It was just completed a few months ago and if you have or suspect thyroid dysfunction I would strongly recommend it.

Living Well With Hypothyroidism

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