Thyroid abnormalities with CFS and FM

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Thyroid abnormalities with CFS and FM

June 04, 2004

According to Kent Holtorf, M.D., " CFS and FM patients will often have a

number of thyroid abnormalities including a low free T3, a high reverse T3,

and a

low TSH. These abnormal ratios are not usually discovered using the standard

laboratory interpretation of hypothyroidism.

When CFS and FM patients are treated with thyroid, they are almost always

under-dosed because their pituitary dysfunction results in their TSH

becoming

quickly suppressed, which normally indicates too much thyroid. Because these

patients have pituitary dysfunction, one must forget about the TSH and not

treat

based on this parameter.

These patients can also have a thyroid resistance syndrome. This has not

been

a well-accepted concept by general mainstream medicine and many refuse to

believe it exists because the exact mechanism has not been elucidated, but

this a

real phenomenon.

In fact, in a recent issue of International Journal of Medical Research, a

major peer reviewed medical journal, a patient was described that required

10

times the normal dose of thyroid intravenously before her symptoms would

resolve. This resistance usually improves as the patient gets better and

they

subsequently need less thyroid. "

(Source: www.ImmuneSupport.com. Read complete article at

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