tony - white cells, thyroid

June 9, 2005

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> Hows your thyroid? [re white cells]

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Hey, damn good question, THANKS for pointing that out, that possible

connection never occured to me.

In fact I just discovered yesterday that I had a TSH of 2.42 in Jul

of 04. Thats well on the high side according to some people. I was

extremely sick then so it might not be so high now, and 10 days later

I had a normal total T4. But I am always extremely cold sensitive,

have a lowish body temp, and a very low heart rate, for what those

values are worth (some would say alot).

Hopefully the fact that I've also had low white cells of all kinds,

and also low platelets on and off, means I dont have something like

anti-neutrophil autoantibiodies going on.

I have been aware of the chiropracters and Lowe who treat

fibro/cfs with thyroid (often T3 alone), carefully determining dose

empirically. Lowe wrote a 1000 page, 1000s-of-refs textbook on

his theory, which I read last summer before I learned about CFS

infections. Its a decent book (minus a few odd points), very

scientific and decently intellectually honest, tho I think the theory

that CFS is simply glandular and/or cellular hypothyroidism is almost

certainly wrong. But they seem like really good people... Lowe spent

a long ass time writing his book and I really doubt he made much

money on it, nor do I think he necessarily expected much recognition.

There is also the question of whether topping up thyroid could help

immune function, tho I would guess that the palliative effects

achieved by the Lowes (they claim many remissions and near-

remissions) probably occurs primarily thru other means.

It should be noted that thyrotoxicosis can apparantly cause permanant

damage, so thyroid is not something people should fool around with

lightly; its very serious.

I definitely dont want this white count crap dragging me down,

limiting my abx and palliative intake.

Google turns up a few web pages on thyroid affecting white counts:

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