Re: Re: Canary Club Change??

[Guest guest]

It appears that YES, you must do the blood work. From what I read, no

blood, no saliva thyroid.

I see my shrink next week for my blood thyroid results. I'll let you guys

know if the blood and saliva agree.

Here is the cut and paste from the site. This was effective Jan 20, 2008

according to the site.

kc

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NOTICE OF CHANGE IN ORDERING

As of January 20, 2008, there is now an additional requirement necessary in

order to obtain the thyroid testing by saliva (from Diagnos-Techs Lab only).

Therefore please choose one of the following 3 options before sending in

your

completed test kit.

OPTION 1:

When mailing your kit back to Diagnos-Techs Lab, please include a copy of

one of

your prior thyroid blood tests (not more than one year old).

OPTION 2:

When mailing your kit back to Diagnos-Techs Lab, please include an extra

vial

containing 1 or 2 CC's of your blood serum. (local medical labs or certain

doctors offices can draw your blood and give you a small vial of your blood

serum for a modest fee - call your doctors office to find locations where

you

can have this done).

OPTION 3:

You may elect to have no thyroid saliva testing done. The Canary Club

Diagnos-techs panel will then include only the adrenal and sex hormone

testing. The reduced price for this panel (without thyroid) is $109.00.

Please indicate that you want only adrenal and sex hormones for $109.00 when

sending in the test kit to Diagnos-Techs.

[Guest guest]

You must do the blood if you want the saliva thyroid tests. This isn't good

business in my opinion because it forces you to pay for the blood draw and

doesn't say if you get those results? Either way they should arrange with

labs to cover the cost since they are requiring it.

I am going to switch to ZRT.

Cheri

-----Original Message-----

I am thinking that they are just trying to cover themselves. I have

seen on maybe the NTH or Iodine list there was talk about screwy

tests and some of they people were confronting Diagnos Tech about it,

with proof from their recent blood work.

So does it specifically say that you MUST do one of these options, or

can you just use saliva results?

K

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[Guest guest]

I coupld, but I don't think I'd want to try to go into an artery.

Anyway, I'd need a thicker needle - I'm not sure a 29 gauge would do

well to go through skin and an artery. Getting blood isn't a problem

- I'm sure I can get the local university center to do it - and they

only charge 5 for the venipuncture (as oppsed to *25* for the

endo..) They might charge a bit more because *I* wanted to blood

(and the vial)

JIm

> Jim you have needles and syringes can;t you take a vial of blood? I

> know

> I sure can. But i ma sunding my last blood labs to them wiht my

> testing

> I am doing today.