There’s no surprise that patients and doctors would disagree about the incidence rate of hypothyroid symptoms in a given patient. “We have an average of 7.2 symptoms per patient” says the cohort of 262 patients. “No, you have an average… Read More ›
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The loss of thyroid clinical knowledge from Werner & Ingbar’s The Thyroid
Decades ago, a lot more doctors knew how thyroid hormone levels influenced all organs and tissues’ health. It wasn’t all about the influence of thyroid hormones on the TSH. It was more about the influence of truly adequate thyroid hormone… Read More ›
Pregnancy thyrotoxicosis vs just a low TSH due to HCG hormone
Table 17.1 in Braverman & Cooper’s 2013 chapter in Werner & Ingbar’s The Thyroid textbook, 10th edition, lists many causes of thyrotoxicosis. One of the interesting causes of thyrotoxicosis, rarely mentioned in public discourse, is “Circulating HCG or Mutant TSHR… Read More ›
Thyrotoxicosis: Symptoms and signs
Much confusion exists about the value of symptoms and signs in the diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis. The most common view is to dismiss symptoms entirely because each, considered separately, is “nonspecific” to thyrotoxicosis. However, there is no such thing as a “thyroid-specific”… Read More ›
A Thyroid Patients Manifesto
Manifesto: “a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer” (Merriam-Webster) I humbly offer the following manifesto for us as thyroid patients. WE, as citizens maintained by thyroid hormone therapy, declare our equal rights to health… Read More ›
2018 study shows T3 in upper half of reference range relieves hypothyroid symptoms
This Sept. 2018 research article proved that thyroid patients’ continued hypothyroid symptoms are connected to Free T3 levels.(1) Symptom relief for thyroid patients on the standard T4 monotherapy is found “in the upper half of the FT3 reference range.” Symptoms… Read More ›
VIDEO: What’s wrong with therapy for hypothyroidism?
On December 17, I decided to purchase “Doodly” video creation software that was being advertised on Facebook, and I made this 10-minute educational video. It is meant to raise an appropriate sense of alarm at the problems with thyroid therapy and… Read More ›
Because Low T3 is hypothyroidism
The fact is, no thyroid hormone pill can ever replace a living, responsive gland. Each of us responds differently to orally dosed hormone replacement. Some of us do not convert T4 into T3 hormone very well, and science has known… Read More ›