Worthlessness of Modern TSH Test--One Proof of Many

[Guest guest]

This is just one of many very solid scientific evidences of the worthlessness of the "sensitivity" of the modern TSH testing, particularly when we are looking at LOW TSH with LOW T3 and T4. May I ask how many folks out there have ever been officially tested down to their little microns in their brains for either central hypothyroidism or even further, as in genetic testing or making the pictures of the pituitary and all inner workings of each cellular pattern in each brain of each different person. I bet not many. This is why we have got to work to change this, or at least have the understanding of it in our own treatment programs. Better that our own doctors across this country know it. It is a very technical thing, but it can be understandable because we have a very smart community in our thyroid groups.

Tx

http://www.thyroidmanager.org/Chapter4/4-frame.htm

[Guest guest]

I think it's just so sad that we can delve and explore to find out why each individual person's brain parts have all these differences and technicalities, with different molecular things going on in there, and our doctors can't take out a couple of hrs to find out these things. All these things affect the TSH in each person, in a different way, without ANY relationship to what's going on in their thyroid itself. I know that I get SO impatient about this. Why can't they see this, with all the proof in the scientific community right at their fingertips? Bought off by pharmaceutical companies, in the war camps of education?

Tx

Re: Worthlessness of "Modern" TSH Test--One Proof of Many

Unfortunately, most docs don't consider a free T3 or Free T4 "low" unless it is very much below range. They have no sense of "optimal." wrote:

This is just one of many very solid scientific evidences of the worthlessness of the "sensitivity" of the modern TSH testing, particularly when we are looking at LOW TSH with LOW T3 and T4. May I ask how many folks out there have ever been officially tested down to their little microns in their brains for either central hypothyroidism or even further, as in genetic testing or making the pictures of the pituitary and all inner workings of each cellular pattern in each brain of each different person. I bet not many. This is why we have got to work to change this, or at least have the understanding of it in our own treatment programs. Better that our own doctors across this country know it. It is a very technical thing, but it can be understandable because we have a very smart community in our thyroid groups.

Tx

http://www.thyroidmanager.org/Chapter4/4-frame.htm