Photo courtesy of www.123rf.com This third article discusses additional reasons your thyroid may not be functioning optimally. All these thyroid tests are just as important as the tests I discussed in my first two blogs. Unless you have a physician skilled in...
Photo courtesy of www.medicalnewstoday.com There is much more to a thorough thyroid evaluation that performing a TSH Test, yet your typical doctor will only test for Thyroid Stimulating Hormone. Basic thyroid tests should include the 9 tests I discussed in my first...
After doing a lot of online searches about thyroid conditions, do you think you might have hypothyroidism? Did you go to your doctor and ask to have your thyroid checked, only to be told that there is nothing wrong? Unfortunately, the majority of the medical...
The trouble with TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone), or more specially, with your doctor relying solely on TSH to completely assess thyroid physiology, is that it happens to be extremely complex and sensitive to the influence of many other factors. There are a number...
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble, it’s what you know that just ain’t so” – Mark Twain, quoted from Hypothyroidism Type 2, by Mark Starr Does this scenario sound familiar? You are tired all the time, somewhat down emotionally. It all may...
