Thyroid, Depression and Mental Health

[shaws]

This is from Stop the Thyroid Madness which may be helpful for those with hypothyroidism and whose doctors may not be aware that symptoms the patient has can be due to being hypothyroid with low T3 which, as we know is rarely checked.

stopthethyroidmadness.com/t...

[Mary-intussuception]

Thank you ♡

[jgelliss]

Thank you Shaws for sharing this very important and valuable information . I think that many of us could have written this great excerpt especially those on T4 only and not converting well T4 to T3 . What the Medical Academia fails to teach future /past Dr's is that they must recognize/understand is that T4 is not a be all for all thyroid patients. T3/NDT is extremely valuable in thyroid patients lives . Especially where conversion does not work well or at all by thyroid patients. Granted some are great converters . But many if not most are not. Dr's must learn to *Listen* to patients and dose accordingly . Not dose by TSH . Labs are Only a snap shot of the moment the labs where done . Most *Importantly* is *Cellular *results . Every single cell needs thyroid hormones . The brain the heart and more have T3 receptor sights .

[shaws Administrator in reply to jgelliss]

I agree and I find that those at the top seem to pull ideas 'out of a hat' and have never listened to older doctors who were trained in clinical symptoms and could diagnose a patient before they sat down in front of them.

Whereas the 'old school' touched our hands (are they cold) and also took notice of palour of skin plus symptoms and we got a trial of NDT, slowly increased until symptom-free.

Instead, a blood test (which varies throughout the day) has been chosen as the diagnosis or not and they have no clue of any symptoms at all.

Many hypo patients are given anti-depressants without the Frees being checked and maybe a myriad of medications..

Dose of levo adjusted due to the TSH alone etc etc.

The worst scenario is when they withdrew T3 without notice and leaving patients in a panic.

The fact that people aren't diagnosed until TSH is 10.

The fact that they are unaware that TSH varies throughout the day and that it is not a thyroid hormone.