Re: Thyroid antibodies test results

[Guest guest]

I agree that the blood test for antibodies is more accurate. I have always

tested negative

for antibodies using saliva and positive using blood - I even did both on the

same day to

experiment with this.

The thing is though, you may not have tested positive for the antibodies you

were being

tested for at a particular time, but you may not have been tested for all of the

antibody

markers that indicate thyroid disease.

I found that many docs just don't understand antibody function well enough to

even know

which ones to look at. That said, they do fluctuate as well.

So while you were probably tested freqently for TPO, there may have been others

rising as

TPO was falling and vice versa.

>

> Thyroid antibodies can come & go during the Hashi process. I had NO

> thyroid antibodies for over 20 years then suddenly I had them again My

> first Saliva antibody came out negative my second positive and was

> mirrored by blood labs, but I do think blood is more accurate for

> antibody testing than saliva.

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> http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

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[Guest guest]

I agree that the blood test for antibodies is more accurate. I have always

tested negative

for antibodies using saliva and positive using blood - I even did both on the

same day to

experiment with this.

The thing is though, you may not have tested positive for the antibodies you

were being

tested for at a particular time, but you may not have been tested for all of the

antibody

markers that indicate thyroid disease.

I found that many docs just don't understand antibody function well enough to

even know

which ones to look at. That said, they do fluctuate as well.

So while you were probably tested freqently for TPO, there may have been others

rising as

TPO was falling and vice versa.

>

> Thyroid antibodies can come & go during the Hashi process. I had NO

> thyroid antibodies for over 20 years then suddenly I had them again My

> first Saliva antibody came out negative my second positive and was

> mirrored by blood labs, but I do think blood is more accurate for

> antibody testing than saliva.

>

> --

> Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV

>

> http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/

>

[Guest guest]

Hi,

You might see my response to Val's post on this. She said that the saliva test

is less

accurate for antibodies (which I concur is true). Also, you may have other

antibodies that

you were not tested for. TRab and TSI would be two of these that also indicate

autoimmune thyroid disease. In simple terms, whether you were hyper or hypo

would

depend on which were dominant at the time. TPO is actually a marker for the

enzyme that

'mops up' the thyroid cell vesicles broken open by TRab antibodies.

>

> My TPOab thyroid antibodies test was normal, what does it then mean

> can I still have autoimmunal hypothyroidism or what are other options?

> The treatment is the same still in any cases, Armour?

> TSH=5.8 (0.3-4.5), T4V=11 (low, yet " normal " ) Thank you!

>