Guest guest Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 From my understanding any antibodies indicates Hashi's. Why they consider any normal is beyond me, but then, most things doctors come up with is beyond me! Gluten really aggrevates Hashi's so that would make sense you have less antibodies on a GF diet. Are you on any thyroid support? If you can suppress the thyroid usually that will help to keep the antibodies from destroying the thyroid completely. kitty To: rt3_t3 Sent: Wed, April 21, 2010 6:49:55 PMSubject: Re:TPo Normal!! steveivell1@ yahoo.co. uk wrote: I have been trying to get TPo test doen for 3 months and finally go the results. Normal! Knowing how really useful the lab "normal" is I asked for the range. "The level was reported as 7.1 IU/ml and the range was 0-59." This is direct from an e mail from my GP. Please can you advise me if this means I have Hashi? Surely if you have antibodies then you have it to a greater or lesser degree? Or, is i the case that over 59 indicates Hashi? Pardon me for kinda butting in, but I have some experience with this. During the many years during which I had a non-zero TPO, thanks to gluten, my TPO never went extraordinarily high. Just before I went off gluten, it was a little over 20. After 18 months of being off gluten, it went to zero. The result? I have thyroid insufficiency. I think it's clear that a low but non-zero TPO over a very long period of time, can do damage. The "normal" range (i.e. the 0-59 you were quoted) gives the patient a false sense of security. Even at 7, you will incur some damage; you just don't know how long it will take. Unfortunately the medical profession is, in general, totally ignorant about how to find the source(s) of an autoimmune attack of any kind. The only thing I've ever heard from an MD, is to take thyroid hormone so as to remove stress from your thyroid. This is kinda like fixing the carburetor on your Edsel. I had to go to an ND to find the actual cause of my non-zero TPO. Ed Arnold * Boulder, CO * USA era [at] pobox [dot] com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 From my understanding any antibodies indicates Hashi's. Why they consider any normal is beyond me, but then, most things doctors come up with is beyond me! Gluten really aggrevates Hashi's so that would make sense you have less antibodies on a GF diet. Are you on any thyroid support? If you can suppress the thyroid usually that will help to keep the antibodies from destroying the thyroid completely. kitty To: rt3_t3 Sent: Wed, April 21, 2010 6:49:55 PMSubject: Re:TPo Normal!! steveivell1@ yahoo.co. uk wrote: I have been trying to get TPo test doen for 3 months and finally go the results. Normal! Knowing how really useful the lab "normal" is I asked for the range. "The level was reported as 7.1 IU/ml and the range was 0-59." This is direct from an e mail from my GP. Please can you advise me if this means I have Hashi? Surely if you have antibodies then you have it to a greater or lesser degree? Or, is i the case that over 59 indicates Hashi? Pardon me for kinda butting in, but I have some experience with this. During the many years during which I had a non-zero TPO, thanks to gluten, my TPO never went extraordinarily high. Just before I went off gluten, it was a little over 20. After 18 months of being off gluten, it went to zero. The result? I have thyroid insufficiency. I think it's clear that a low but non-zero TPO over a very long period of time, can do damage. The "normal" range (i.e. the 0-59 you were quoted) gives the patient a false sense of security. Even at 7, you will incur some damage; you just don't know how long it will take. Unfortunately the medical profession is, in general, totally ignorant about how to find the source(s) of an autoimmune attack of any kind. The only thing I've ever heard from an MD, is to take thyroid hormone so as to remove stress from your thyroid. This is kinda like fixing the carburetor on your Edsel. I had to go to an ND to find the actual cause of my non-zero TPO. Ed Arnold * Boulder, CO * USA era [at] pobox [dot] com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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