Henry Lindner, MD

[Jazzw]

I bet this has been posted here before - apologies for posting something already known - but I thought this was a brilliant summary of thyroid treatment issues:

hormonerestoration.com/Thyr...

I've lurked here for a while now and have read bits and pieces of this before, but this really puts the jigsaw together for me.

[shaws Administrator]

Yes, it is an excellent link. It is exactly what lots of us think and I would recommend it be sent to all doctors in the UK. I also think the Endocrinology Departments would do well to take notice as well and put it into action pronto.

It is along the lines of quite a few holistic doctors as well as those who were trained in the 1960's. Nowadays it has gone completely the other way, i.e. diagnosis by computer and TSH alone.

I know of a few organisations who would do well to re-discover that there are people behind the blood tests, take note of their clinical symptoms and prescribe decent thyroid hormones.

I particularly liked the phrase:-

All that research is confused and misleading and must be

reinterpreted. Thyroid "specialists" can be conversant with the literature and yet still not know what they are talking about.

Thanks for link.

[silverfox7]

Thank you for posting. I'm on my phone so saved to read later!

[greygoose]

Great article! Supports everything I've ever said, although I've never heard of this man before. Especially the bit about suppressed TSH on thyroid hormone replacement NOT causing bone loss and heart attacks!!!

Thank you for posting.

[Kellogs]

I have a suppressed TSH of 0.5 I have had total thyroidectomy and my Dr prescribes100mg Of T4 My doctor has been trying to raise my TSH level for years with reducing T4 to the point I thought she wanted to put me in a coma I have since left that practice. My daughter age 13 has just had blood tests at my old surgery and her TSH is wait for it 0.5 according to the Drs she is within referee range and is normal . All they want to do is work to TSH levels . So why am I said to have suppressed TSH and on T4. And my daughter has just been tested and her levels are said to be normal. Shelly

[Clutter in reply to Kellogs]

Shelly, what are the reference ranges? If they are different your daughter may be within range whereas yours may be below range.

Read Dr. A. Toft's comments about thyroid levels in this link thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/about_...

[Kellogs]

They were tested at the same Drs my TSH has been the same for years it never changes when I had my thyroid removed due to graves I started on 100mg T4 it was increased to 150 over the years prescriptions have increased and decreased I managed at one point to get T3 added bet but she took me off it 1 month later as T4 levels were to high and it didn't matter how much I argued that this was to soon to be testing and that T 4 would be higher she refused and wanted to reduce T4 to 50mg it was at this point I said she would put me in a coma if I was on that level i then left the Drs but the rest of my familey still go to that practice . Iv had to lie about where I live to get into the Drs I'm in at the moment which I can't expect my daughter to do or no that is what iv done. So back to ur query the tests were done at the same Drs so reference ranges were the same. I'm going to ask for antibodies test for my daughter as her liver function was low also , iv asked for a copy of her tests which I will collect tomorrow . I can't allow my daughter to go through the horrendous untreated thyroid problems I have suffered over the years . Thanks for your reply by the way .shelly

[Coastwalker]

Wow!

Many, many thanks for that link, top marks to you jazzw, this link might prove to be so important to my family, to show a blinkered Child Endocrine and a Pediatrician and before Social services take our Grandchild away from his Parents.

My 8yr old Grandson's parents have been accused for many years of over feeding their child, despite being a baby giant, (even before he was on solids,) of a strong muscular build and 4 stone at aged of two. (His sibling is not of the same build. He also has Erbs Palsy , (a 'pulled baby' as the Erb's palsy Doctor describes these unlucky babies.)

I have long suspected thanks to other Members on here Thyroid Uk it was a thyroid condition, our GSon has had Social Services brought in, Parents told your children can be taken away, still there's an ongoing session for several weeks in a child unit to check for food consumption, (calorie intake) and his Mother still being pushed to have a mental test despite having no mental problems, she has many top people friends who can vouch for her not being mental.

I have already put forward in some notes to them that child has a low FT4, and was told at an earlier consultation by the pediatrician, (along with a Social services person sitting in with us,) that our child did not have gut issues or a thyroid problem. Child is now at 9 stone and told to go on an 800 calories a day diet. ??? Pediatrician was sat there with a can of coke on her desk.

'Thank You' jazzw

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