Re; hashimotos & T3

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I have hashi's and my doc told me I didn't convert T4 to T3 too. He put me on enough thyroid to squash my TSH down to almost 0, he says that means my thyroid isn't putting out any endogenous hormone of it's own and that keeps the hashi antibody from attacking my thyroid. If you get on a good enough dose of thyroid med it'll keep those antibodies at bay. I'm taking T3 only, used to take Naturethroid until I built up an RT3 issue, my hashi's isn't an issue with T3, my tsh is squashed down real low on it.<<Posted by: "sandra weisenthal" interart81@... saga0033Wed Aug 11, 2010 4:46 pm (PDT)I just was on the phone with Dr. Kharrazian from California who wrote this book on Hashimotos, and he said that I am putting too much emphasis on hormones and not on the auto-immunity......that I have to target my auto-immune condition before I can expect to find the right replacement hormone. He also said that there is something that is preventing the conversion of T4 to T3 and that I have to correct this, and I am just wondering if hashimotos is considered different than hypo/hyperthyroid and if the straight T3 protocol works the same on hashimotos as it does on non-hashimotos thyroid..........He also said that the autobody test for hashimotos is not the exact indication of whether you are improving, because even though the antibodies go down it does not necessarily mean you are getting better.............I wish I understood this all better...........>> Kem in Eugene <º)))><

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The thing is before taking T3 my TSH was almost non existent, it was between .01--.03.........

Subject: Re; hashimotos & T3To: "RT3" <RT3_T3 >Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 4:55 AM

I have hashi's and my doc told me I didn't convert T4 to T3 too. He put me on enough thyroid to squash my TSH down to almost 0, he says that means my thyroid isn't putting out any endogenous hormone of it's own and that keeps the hashi antibody from attacking my thyroid. If you get on a good enough dose of thyroid med it'll keep those antibodies at bay. I'm taking T3 only, used to take Naturethroid until I built up an RT3 issue, my hashi's isn't an issue with T3, my tsh is squashed down real low on it.

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Wed Aug 11, 2010 4:46 pm (PDT)

I just was on the phone with Dr. Kharrazian from California who wrote this book on Hashimotos, and he said that I am putting too much emphasis on hormones and not on the auto-immunity. .....that I have to target my auto-immune condition before I can expect to find the right replacement hormone. He also said that there is something that is preventing the conversion of T4 to T3 and that I have to correct this, and I am just wondering if hashimotos is considered different than hypo/hyperthyroid and if the straight T3 protocol works the same on hashimotos as it does on non-hashimotos thyroid..... .....He also said that the autobody test for hashimotos is not the exact indication of whether you are improving, because even though the antibodies go down it does not necessarily mean you are getting better...... .......I wish I understood this all

better...... .....>>

Kem in Eugene

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