TSH test
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Why has TSH testing replaced thyroid hormone testing?
For two related reasons: Because it is mistakenly believed that oral doses of thyroid hormone can sufficiently replace the natural secretion of living thyroid gland tissue. It is mistakenly believed that adjusting TSH secretion within the statistical “normal” range will create and/or signify thyroid hormone health in an individual treated thyroid patient. The problem is……
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Fear of Low TSH causing osteoporosis
Image based on Figure 4 in this source: Gogakos, A. I., Duncan Bassett, J. H., & Williams, G. R. (2010). Thyroid and bone. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 503(1), 129–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2010.06.021 Dear Doctors, You may experience this scenario with some of your thyroid patients. Your patient’s TSH is near the bottom of reference range, but…
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TSH untrustworthy in thyroid therapy
The current model of long term thyroid therapy reduces it to two simple buttons or levers on a machine: Test TSH Dose L-T4 to fix the TSH Wow, the power of science! We’ve got hypothyroidism fixed! Cured! It appears that doctors enjoy the satisfaction of “normalizing” the TSH hormone secretion by the L-T4 dose. It’s like…
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Asking my TSH … The Pituitary Fable
Once upon a time, The pituitary gland was married to the thyroid gland. Ms. Thyroid started neglecting her husband. She had already had many children, T4 and T3 hormones, But apparently not enough for him. Mr. P used to scream at her with insistent TSH shouts “produce more children NOW! I mean yesterday! Tsh, Tsh,…