Guest guest Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 I read her other book, but just wanted to say that I'm at 2.5 TSH right now and I feel like crap. I felt my best at 1 or under. Why is 3 the magic number for him? Let us know how the book is _________________________________________________________________ Enjoy the holiday season with great tips from MSN. http://special.msn.com/network/happyholidays.armx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 Hi there! A TSH of 3 is still borderline hypo. This summer the new reference ranges for " normal " TSH came out. It's 0.3 to 3.0. This is according to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Many doctors are not aware of this, and many labs still don't have the current reference ranges listed. Here's a link. You can print it out and take it to your doctor. http://www.aace.com/pub/tam2003/press.php Good luck. Sheila carolyneswanson@... wrote: hi all, i just got the thyroid diet guide by mary shomon and wondered if any one has tried this. it looks pretty good. i'm about 25lbs overweight and only take synthoid, my NEW doc says he'll try to get my tsh down to 3 it is now at 6. any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2003 Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 Hi Carolyne, A TSH of 3 seems a bit high. I know I felt really bad at 3. I felt better when my TSH was below 1. If you are in the US though I thought the recomendation there was to be between 0.5 and 2.5 or something like that? As for the wieght loss, if you are in the UK then I have lost 46 lbs on Slimming World. I don't have mary's book on the thyroid diet but I do have her other two books on thyroid and autoimmune conditions and found them to be very interesting and have recommended them to many people with thyroid probs. Take care ali carolyneswanson@... wrote: hi all, i just got the thyroid diet guide by mary shomon and wondered if any one has tried this. it looks pretty good. i'm about 25lbs overweight and only take synthoid, my NEW doc says he'll try to get my tsh down to 3 it is now at 6. any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2003 Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 scrap the TSH! It still doesn't and never has represented how a person FEELS!! I am not a lab parameter, I'm a patient! Re: mary shomon book Hi there! A TSH of 3 is still borderline hypo. This summer the new reference ranges for " normal " TSH came out. It's 0.3 to 3.0. This is according to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Many doctors are not aware of this, and many labs still don't have the current reference ranges listed. Here's a link. You can print it out and take it to your doctor. http://www.aace.com/pub/tam2003/press.php Good luck. Sheila carolyneswanson@... wrote: hi all, i just got the thyroid diet guide by mary shomon and wondered if any one has tried this. it looks pretty good. i'm about 25lbs overweight and only take synthoid, my NEW doc says he'll try to get my tsh down to 3 it is now at 6. any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2003 Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 Quite interesting news Sheila. I think this should become a huge awareness for alot of suffering people out there along with their docs who have seem to place more emphasis on what a lab parameter says than how the patient feels. Obviously the TSH doesn't hold alot of weight as a complete diagnosis and never has. Perhaps it does in some people but not everyone. The TSH shows to be still unreliable for detecting even mild thyroid disorders. Many members of my family are hypothyroid (and still) yet these tests mean 100% of a diagnosis to a doc than any other pertinent data such as family risk and symptomotolgy or other signs and biomarkers. Yet if it you had symptoms of " depresssion " , " asthma " , or an " infection " of some kind the reliance is not on a lab test to determine if the patient can't breathe. They are treated empirically, meaning simply trying something to see if it works to help the patient breathe again. We give them something to help them get on with their lives. It's funny how some docs can be. Like medicine is supposed to be black or white? Is there something magical about the TSH that we couldn't tell before? Evidence-based medicine should really be about the patients " tissue response " (how they feel or respond to treatment) not a lab parameter. You can either treat a lab number or you can treat the whole patient. Numbers lie, patients symptoms don't. What better test than the patient themselves? For 80 years prior to 1973 before the TSH came into existence, clinicians took a complete and careful history, as well as clinical presentation where a lab parameter held only 10% of a diagnosis! Now it has become 100% of the diagnosis. Treating a lab slip is not treating a patient. A lab test is only a lab test. It's just that. It's not a god-send or end-all! Normal is normal is normal???? How can that be???? The TSH still does not relate or represent in any way or form how the patient feels. Even in my case the TSH has been up to 3.34 even though it flutuates and symptoms left as meaningless to docs. No wonder I have fallen through the cracks. According to these new ranges I have been misdiagnosed with a bunch of names like " fibromyalgia " , " depression " , " anxiety disorder " , " chronic fatigue " , " leaky gut syndrome " , " burnout disorder " , etc,. etc, etc. that describe how you feel when you your body screams HYPOTHYROID!!!!!! http://www.aace.com/pub/tam2003/press.php Re: mary shomon book Hi there! A TSH of 3 is still borderline hypo. This summer the new reference ranges for " normal " TSH came out. It's 0.3 to 3.0. This is according to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Many doctors are not aware of this, and many labs still don't have the current reference ranges listed. Here's a link. You can print it out and take it to your doctor. http://www.aace.com/pub/tam2003/press.php Good luck. Sheila carolyneswanson@... wrote: hi all, i just got the thyroid diet guide by mary shomon and wondered if any one has tried this. it looks pretty good. i'm about 25lbs overweight and only take synthoid, my NEW doc says he'll try to get my tsh down to 3 it is now at 6. any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 22, 2003 Report Share Posted December 22, 2003 the doctor is an idiot. Gracia > hi all, i just got the thyroid diet guide by mary shomon and > wondered if any one has tried this. it looks pretty good. i'm > about 25lbs overweight and only take synthoid, my NEW doc says he'll > try to get my tsh down to 3 it is now at 6. any thoughts? > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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