Two informative articles: (1) T3 and Chronic Fatigue and (2) Repair Your Thyroid

[shaws]

dynamicchiropractic.com/mpa...

experiencelife.com/article/...

[Marz]

Great articles shaws...... a must read for everyone....thank you.

[janro]

Excellent, thank you.

[Trewoof]

Really helpful for me to read this right now!

Thank you

[rebekah40]

Really interesting articles especially since I have been given a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and also because I only recently found out that I am positive for TPO antibodies, and I only found that out by requesting it on the blood request form that the endocrinologist gave me (he gave me the form to take away and I decided to request both the TPO and TG antibodies!!).

Thank you.

[Marz in reply to rebekah40]

Good for you. So will you now receive treatment ? I often think that if everyone who had a Fibromyalgia diagnosis also had their thyroid anti-bodies tested there would be a lot less suffering. Hashimotos is the most common form of thyroid illness and as it is auto-immune it makes sense that the whole body will suffer. I was diagnosed with Fibro 14 years ago and Hashimotos in 2005 - five years later. Now on optimal treatment and feeling good.

Cannot understand why GP's are reluctant to test for anti-bodies when over 90% of thyroid sufferers have them. So it must be to do with costs or more money for Big Pharma treating all the various symptoms.

Good luck on your journey....

[rebekah40 in reply to Marz]

Thank you Marz. I agree that everyone with Fibromyalgia should be tested. It's terrible that they don't join up the dots and make a connection. I'm glad you are on optimal treatment and feeling good. I see that you take T3 and it works well for you.

To try and cut a long story short my Fibromyalgia was diagnosed this year after being diagnosed (2 years earlier) with Joint Hypermobility Syndrome and Sero-negative Spondylarthropathy and I queried it (the Fibromyalgia). I was on thyroid meds in 2011 for a few months, when a different GP advised me to come off them (which I now don't think I should have). The registrar endocrinologist (the second one I have seen) before he gave the blood request form said that antibodies are not important! Because of the antibody result I decided to put in a repeat prescription for thyroxine just to see if my GP's would issue it - to my surprise no-one queried it. I have another appointment in November with the endocrinologist where they want to test my bloods again so hopefully the results will be 'acceptable' to him/her (it is a teaching hospital and the registrar has now been moved to another department). I have done a lot of research this year, from here and other places, and am convinced that I have been left to rot. I've got copies of most of my blood tests from 2009 onwards and I can see that I had a low in range B12 result along with some other low results. So, optimally treated, not yet. I did try NTD with a very small amount of T3 earlier this year and felt so much better, but thought I should stop and at least try one last time with the NHS. I hope all this makes some sort of sense.

Thanks.

[Marz in reply to rebekah40]

Do you have Hashimotos ? Everything you say makes sense - just concerned you are not being optimally treated. I think we have to go it alone in order to find optimal health - sadly

naturalnews.com/047107_Oste...

Do not allow yourself to think you have been left to rot - grab the reigns and take control

[rebekah40 in reply to Marz]

I have the positive high TPO antibodies, but haven't been diagnosed with Hashimotos. I only found out the blood result at the beginning of September. I agree that we have to go it alone and will be doing this again very soon. I noticed so many improvements with NDT and T3. My only concern at the moment is that I don't have the finances to obtain blood results to keep a check on them. I think in my head, I have gone 'give the NHS one last chance and then I know I have tried my hardest to get them to listen'. So, I have prepared myself for my going it alone completely very soon (before the end of the year).

I didn't mean to sound so negative but I am just a little baffled that the medical profession can keep us so ill. I am actually feeling positive having learnt so much this year.

Thanks for the article - the vitamin D I have been taken a high potency soft gel. I've never heard of Osteomalacia so will research.

Thanks again

[Marz in reply to rebekah40]

Am sure you will be just fine So many Docs think that having anti-bodies is no big deal - am afraid it is - and many things need to be addressed. There are excellent websites and books should you need any help with Hashimotos...

[rebekah40 in reply to Marz]

Thanks....I have been looking through the Hashimoto posts on here. Much appreciated

[shaws Administrator in reply to rebekah40]

I'm glad it's been helpful.

[greygoose]

"My labs told a different story. When my then-doctor asserted that I had to be on thyroid drugs for the rest of my life — drugs that can cause heart palpitations, shortness of breath, troubled sleep and a host of other side effects — I again blurted, “I don’t think so,” and my journey into sleuthing low thyroid function and autoimmunity began."

No. This is not good! Telling people this will put them off taking the hormones - NOT drugs - that they need.

And I really think it would help everybody if we stopped calling them 'drugs' and 'meds'. They aren't either, they are hormone replacement. We don't call HRT for the menopause 'drugs', do we? So why do we call Thyroid Hormone Replacement drugs? It gives people the wrong idea.

Causes heart palpitations, shortness of breath, etc? Where did she get that? Thyroid hormone replacement is perfectly safe if used correctly. Unless, of course, you react to the fillers. But it's not the hormones that cause side-effects.

I'm sorry, I thought the first link was excellent. But the second is just uninformed popular journalism done badly.

Hugs, Grey

[rebekah40 in reply to greygoose]

Agree with you on calling them hormone replacement although in my reply I have called them 'meds'!

[greygoose in reply to rebekah40]

[shaws Administrator in reply to greygoose]

Yes Grey, you are right about calling them hormones. Life-giving ones at that.

[greygoose in reply to shaws]