Elaine or anyone: Journal links

[Guest guest]

Hi Jae,

Try to Thyroid Manager website, www.thyroidmanager.org/thyroidbook.htm

It's important to have an FT3 at the time of diagnosis to see if you have T3

thyrotoxicosis. Your endo should know this. If FT3 is high and FT4 is normal

then you would need to monitor your ATD therapy with FT3 levels. If both FT4

and FT3 are high, then you wouldn't need an FT3 test every time you have labs.

TSH, though, should never be used as the sole test for monitoring TSH. Your

endo can find this in Werner & Ingbar's The Thyroid and in numerous articles.

A Pub Med search on Brokken will link you to his articles, which explain the

mechanism here. Take care, Elaine

[Guest guest]

Does anyone have any links or references at all in professional

journals that discuss the role of monitoring and/or replacing FT3 and

FT4 in ATD therapy and discuss the need to test FT3?

My doc says that most of the information on these boards is the

equivalent of superstition, utterly without scientific foundation. I'M

NOT SAYING I AGREE. I think there is a lot of experience represented

here.

I'm just asking if anyone has any professional journal articles.

jae

[Guest guest]

A thousand thanks!

One thing, though. I did look on the list files for this and could not

find the answer. The tests you all talk about are called different

things on my endo's test form or are not even listed at all. You all

talk about FT3 and FT4 and here are tests I have listed:

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Thyroxine

Thyroid uptake (this is a lab test not the radioactive iodine test)

Free Thyroxine index

TSH 3rd generation

T4 (Free)

TSH

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I see nothing that says T3 at all. Are any of these T3? Also are any

of these the " old tests " or the bad tests?

What are the lab names or words that the doctor would write to get the

FT3 test you all say is important? I will write it on the form myself.

What is the name and/or abbreviation of the antibody test? My endo says

this test is meaningless. Sigh. But I think I had it.

Jae