curious_guy (imported) wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2010 9:37 pm I think you probably have hypothyroidism. If you do have hypothyroidism, it will probably be very difficult to get a physician to treat your condition properly. Many physicians will not use the correct test, which is the TSH test. If you can get a physician to order a TSH test, the physician will probably use the wrong "normal" range. In 2002 a society of endocrinologists recommended that the normal range for TSH be 0.3 to 3.0. I found a medical journal article that said patients with hypothyroidism had the best health when their TSH was below 1.4. I found another medical journal article that said patients with hypothyroidism did best when they were given a mixture of T4 and T3.
Most physicians use the old standard of normal which was 0.5 to 5.5. Nearly all of them prescribe T4 only.
I had all of this information on my computer but lost it all in a recent hard drive crash. There is a usenet newsgroup about thyroid problems. It is alt.support.thyroid. There are probably also mailing lists and web based forums.
Paolo and my #2 son are much the same, skinny as a rail, no fat, a slight breeze will blow them over, now if they had some padding Like I Have, they would not need a jacket until the temp was 30's. It's not that they don't eat, they do it just does not stick. Example, my son weighed himself the other day and lost 5 pounds, he is 5'11 and is 144 lbs, he rides his road bike 20 miles a day, runs his dog in the woods, he eats everything in sight and looses weight. Paolo is much the same way.
Me, I will be so happy to hit 220 again, sigh
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