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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....

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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 !!!!!!!

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.

Holy Miracle of the Infallible TSH Test

FT4 testing on treatment with medications containing T3

By Paul on Sun, 25/11/2012 - 09:51

In the 'Recovering with T3' book I repeatedly say that thyroid blood tests cannot be used to manage T3 based thyroid treatment.

However, many thyroid patients often have problems with their family doctor or endocrinologist because of concerns about low FT4 levels.

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