Re: whatever next? Bumpity Bump

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> Sorry cannot remember who it was who mentioned a couple of weeks ago a BMJ

article about the inadequacy of thyroid tests.

> I was emailing my GP about something else and sent him the link to this.

> This particular GP has been making my life a misery for years now, insisting

that I am hypothyroid when I am not because of my suppressed TSH and refusing to

test my FT3 even though i was, until recently, on T3 only meds.

> So much to my surprise I received a letter this morning from him saying -

> " Thank you for bringing to my attention the BMJ article on the usefulness (or

otherwise) of thyroid function tests. This certainly puts the case for less

reliance on testing, and more reliance on symptomatology. "

>

> Well blow me over with a fevver LOL!

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> My endo appt looms and my concern now is my suppressed TSH. The new info in

the Files is good because it gives new guidelines for just how suppressed a TSH

can be before complications can be expected.

> BUT my TSH is always more suppressed than the numbers indicated therein so

where does that leave me when my upcoming tests show a TSH of .001 or whatever?

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> I have aded in 100 mcg T4 to my T3 dose and, as posted, there was no sign of

the expected hyper symptoms at all. even at 28 days. So the penny dropped that

what was probably happening was that I was showing the hypo-type hyper signs and

I reduced my T3 by 1 3/4 25 mcg tabs (sorry disculia!)and lo and behold up came

my energy and the afternoon sleeps went west.

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> So so far, so good. Just how do I get the endo off my back when she inevitably

insists on going all T4?

> Thanks. And huge thanks to whoever it was you brought the BMJ article to the

list!

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> Mo

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