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Hashimoto's Patients Have More Symptoms - TSH Misleading

By Paul on Mon, 01/05/2017 - 14:30

Feb of 2011: Johannes Ott and colleagues from Kaiserin Elisabeth Spital and Medical University of Vienna, Austria, report that women with higher levels of anti-thyroid antibody had a significantly higher number of symptoms, even though their levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)-a measure of thyroid function-did not differ from TSH levels measured in women with lower antibody levels....

Thyroid Blood Test Blog Posts Compilation

By Paul on Mon, 01/05/2017 - 11:27

I thought it might be worth listing all the blog posts I've done that are directly about thyroid blood tests.

Here they are:

http://recoveringwitht3.com/blog/why-i-believe-t3-should-be-very-last-tr...

http://recoveringwitht3.com/blog/thyroid-blood-tests-part-1-reference-ra...

Another Example of Why Thyroid Blood Tests Make No Sense on T3 Treatment

By Paul on Sun, 13/09/2015 - 18:38

For people on T3 treatment, thyroid blood tests are often meaningless. Please see all the early blogs entitled 'Thyroid Blood Tests Part 1-8' in: http://recoveringwitht3.com/blog/all.

Thyroid blood tests can be helpful for people on just T4/levothyroxine meds and only then if they actually respond well to the T4.

For those on T3 only (or mostly T3) then signs and symptoms are really the best way to assess the dosing/effectiveness of the T3 treatment.

TSH Should NOT be The Gold Standard !!!!!!!

By Paul on Wed, 08/05/2013 - 15:51

Another fantastic research article that is putting the knife into TSH as a truly unhelpful diagnostic test of whether thyroid patients are being properly treated.

At last it appears that medical research is telling us what we have know for years:

http://www.thyroid.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/clinthy/volume25/issue2/clinthy_v252_33_34.pdf

Best wishes,

Paul

TSH in Reference Range is No Gurarantee of Being Healthy

By Paul on Fri, 03/05/2013 - 23:48

Many thyroid patients on thyroid medication continue to experience symptoms of hypothyroidism. This is well known to many of us. Many thyroid patients are also aware that their TSH is not an indication of how well they are.

Specifically, getting TSH into the reference range is no guarantee of good health.

Thyroid patients who have struggled with their health for some time know their own bodies and they know that TSH can't be used as the main means of assessing whether they are healthy in terms of thyroid hormone action.