Re: Pointless visit to the Doc's

[Guest guest]

I do believe that you and your doc are talking past each other

because " thyroid " has a double meaning. Does it pertain to the

gland or the whole thryoid related realm. The tests pretain to the

gland, but the symptoms pertain to the whole realm. So it is quite

easy to have symptoms and still have normal tests, particularly

since the peripheral metabolism tends to isolate TSH from peripheral

hormone reception -- which is not a recognized cause of the symptoms

of hypothyroidism....

If your TSH, fT3, and fT4 are normal, then I suggest I an rT3 test

to inspect the possibility that the T3 is not being used and the

constant pouring out of T3 is being converted to rT3 instead of T3...

Have a great day,

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> Hi All,

> So finally went to get my results from the Dr's but got into the

> usual no information, impossible to talk to situation.

> I had my TSH test in July which at the time I was told

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[Guest guest]

Hi -Jayne

The lump may be a lipoma; sodium valproate can cause them.

Sodium valproate may also cause the thyroid function to go down.

If your lumps are 'just' due to low thyroid and/or antibodies, might

the doctor not take a slight interest in them?

If you can swing it to take a male companion along to the next

appointment, ask the same question and get your male companion to

repeat it as though the doctor appears not to hear your question (my

results? )....and then emphasise that you thought the doctor was

going deaf, so you brought someone along with louder voice.

best wishes

Bob

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> Hi All,

> So finally went to get my results from the Dr's but got into the

> usual no information, impossible to talk to situation.

> I had my TSH test in July which at the time I was told was 'Normal'