Where do I go to get full immune panels tested?

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Hi

I'm knew to this forum and I have Hashimotos. I have been struggling to find a

Dr in London who will help me with treating the root cause of my problem instead

of giving me more levothryroxine. I also need to find a lab that will test all

immune panels, cytokine panels. Does anyone know of a good natural or

sympathetic specialist that looks at all types of treatment?

Thank you so much

[Guest guest]

I

have just sent you a list of doctors who treat using T3 and/or natural thyroid

extract . Also, check out the information below by way of a process of

elimination to find the reason why your present thyroxine dose is not working

and see if any of these could be the culprit.

The

main condition responsible for stopping thyroid hormone from working is, quite

simply, a patient’s thyroxine dose is too low because the doctor or

consultant refuses to increase it, because the serum thyroid function test results

appear OK. Sometimes, the thyroxine dose is too high, yet patients still don't

feel well. They continue to suffer. Some reasons for this:

They

may be suffering with low adrenal reserve. The production of T4, its conversion

to T3, and the receptor uptake requires a normal amount of adrenal hormones,

notably, of course, cortisone. (Excess cortisone can shut production down,

however.) This is what happens if the adrenals are not responding properly, and

provision of cortisone usually switches it on again. But sometimes it

doesn’t. If the illness has been going on for a long time, the

enzyme seems to fail. This conversion failure (inexplicably denied by

many endocrinologists) means the thyroxine builds up, unconverted. So it

doesn’t work, and T4 toxicosis results. This makes the patient feel quite

unwell, toxic, often with palpitations and chest pain. If provision of adrenal

support doesn’t remedy the situation, the final solution is the use of

the active thyroid hormone, already converted, T3 - either synthetic or

natural.

Then,

we have systemic candidiasis. This is where candida albicans, yeast, which

causes skin infections almost anywhere in the body, invades the lining of the

lower part of the small intestine and the large intestine. Here, the

candida sets up residence in the warmth and the dark, and demands to be

fed. Loving sugars and starches, candida can make you suffer terrible

sweet cravings. Candida can produce toxins which can cause very many

symptoms of exhaustion, headache, general illness, and which interfere with the

uptake of thyroid and adrenal treatment. Sometimes the levels - which we

usually test for - can be very high, and make successful treatment difficult to

achieve until adequately treated.

Then

there is receptor resistance which could be a culprit. Being hypothyroid

for some considerable time may mean the biochemical mechanisms which permit the

binding of T3 to the receptors, is downgraded - so the T3 won’t go

in. With slow build up of T3, with full adrenal support and adequate

vitamins and minerals, the receptors do come on line again. But this can

be quite a slow process, and care has to be taken to build the dose up

gradually.

And

then there are Food allergies. The most common food allergy is allergy to

gluten, the protein fraction of wheat. The antibody generated by the body, by a

process of molecular mimicry, cross reacts with the thyroperoxidase enzyme,

(which makes thyroxine) and shuts it down. So allergy to bread can make

you hypothyroid. There may be other food allergies with this kind of effect,

but information on these is scanty. Certainly allergic response to

certain foods can affect adrenal function and imperil thyroid production and

uptake.

Then

we have hormone imbalances. The whole of the endocrine system is linked; each

part of it needs the other parts to be operating normally to work

properly. An example of this we have seen already, with cortisone.

But another example is the operation of sex hormones. The imbalance that

occurs at the menopause with progesterone running down, and a relative

dominance of oestrogen is a further case in point – oestrogen dominance

downgrades production, transportation and uptake of thyroid hormones.

This is why hypothyroidism may first appear at the menopause; the symptoms ascribed

to this alone, which is then treated – often with extra oestrogen, making

the whole thing worse. Deficiency in progesterone most especially needs

to be dealt with, since it reverses oestrogen dominance, improves many

menopausal symptoms like sweats and mood swings, and reverses

osteoporosis. Happily natural progesterone cream is easily obtained: when

used it has the added benefit of helping to stabilise adrenal function.

Then,

we must never forget the possibility of mercury poisoning (through amalgam

fillings) - low levels of iron, transferring saturation%, ferritin, vitamin

B12, vitamin D3, magnesium, folate, copper and zinc - all of which, if low,

stop the thyroid hormone from being utilised by the cells - these have to be

treated. If these have not been tested recently, then please ask your GP to

test these and when the results have been returned, post them here on the forum

together with the reference range and we will help with their interpretation.

When

you have been quite unwell for a long time, all these problems have to be dealt

with; and since each may affect the other, it all has to be done rather

carefully.

Contrary

to cherished beliefs by much of the medical establishment, the correction of a

thyroid deficiency state has a number of complexities and variables, which make

the treatment usually quite specific for each person. The balancing of

these variables is as much up to you as to your doctor– which is why a

check of morning, day and evening temperatures and pulse rates, together with

symptoms, good and bad, can be so helpful.The above problems must be eliminated

if thyroid hormone isn't working for you.

Luv

- Sheila

Hi

I'm knew to this forum and I have Hashimotos. I have been struggling to find a

Dr in London who will help me with treating the root cause of my problem

instead of giving me more levothryroxine. I also need to find a lab that will

test all immune panels, cytokine panels. Does anyone know of a good natural or

sympathetic specialist that looks at all types of treatment?

Thank you so much

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