Came across this article thought it would be of interest.
Especially if your dr says “Your TSH is just below reference (or too low in reference). I’m going to have to reduce your thyroid medication.”
thyroidpatients.ca/2020/01/...
Info already discussed on forum but shows circadian graphs, post breakfast/ after breakfast etc.
Very useful article - thanks for posting.
Here we go again..,
Synthroid is NOT thyroid hormone!
Got that?! It does not occur naturally, or would not be patentable according to the Geneva agreement. Natural desiccated thyroid contains two actual thyroid hormones.,,active and inactive. It has been in use for well over 5,000 years! No one died from using it, but became optimal in thyroid function, if they had a reasonably good doctor. According to the creator of the TSH test, it is “wrong”, for the purposes of assessing your status. (Try arguing with the creator🥴). I’ve seen TSHs over 500. The person should be dead! The lower the#, the
Longer you live! Your doc needs some educating. (It is a fact that doctors are outlived by their patients by an average of ~5 years).
If my mechanic drove a broken down car I’d switch mechanics!
The biggest health scam today is the suppression of PANDEMIC hypothyroidism! Get some iodine immediately. 1,000 mcg (1mg)/day is optimal. Beware, you will feel better, and dump your doctors.
-shtdstrbr.
If you want to disagree with people it would be nice if you did it more politely.
Iodine is NOT recommended for anyone on levothyroxine or especially with Hashimoto’s (about 90% of primary hypothyroidism is autoimmune thyroid disease aka Hashimoto’s)
Have mercy!
Why on this green earth would we want to raise TSH (depress thyroid)?! It’s moronic.
STOP Levothyroxine (L-thyroxine) and live! If I told you saccharin was sugar so go ahead and replace it in your diet, I hope you’d stop to think about it. Structurally these two molecules (L and D thyroxine) are mirror images. Like your right and left hand, similar but different, otherwise just shove your hand in either glove. Hormone receptor sites are even more particular!
Like a key, it only fits one lock, and that lock is life or death to our cells.
You will die prematurely without proper thyroid function!!. That I guarantee. Mainstream medicine has fallen asleep at the wheel (at least, and at worst is complicit in an international medical disaster).
Take some iodine everyday ~1,000 mcg and see if you don’t feel better.Around 1972 the TSH test came into use, much to the shagrin of its creator, since he himself says the test is “wrong” for the sensitive diagnosis of thyroid disease. Recent research tells us that the pituitary doesn’t respond to thyroxine like somatic cells. OMG! We’ve been using the wrong test all along. Oops! We just screwed Up several 100 million people!
Ft3and Ft3 Will tell volumes more that TSH. Go. Find alab to get it done. Sooner than later.
-shtdstrbr
Raising TSH is discussed here in the context of trying to persuade a doctor who is unwilling to recognise that a person should be diagnosed or have their dose raised. It is not a blanket "this is a good idea".
Your "explanation" of D and L thyroxine is erroneous.
Anyone on any dose of T3 or NDT will have suppressed TSH ...it’s inevitable
With Hashimoto’s many patients ONLY feel well once TSH is suppressed and their own thyroid switched right off .....,stops mad swinging in levels
Unfortunately many GP’s and endocrinologists freak out when TSH is suppressed
Good lord! I thought I was blunt, but you've out blunted me.
OK, so if Synthroid isn't thyroid hormone, what is it? Agreed it didn't come out of an actual thyroid, but a laboratory, but it has the same molecula structure.
Do you actually know what hypothyroidism is? Do you have it yourself?
Apologies. Life and death matters get me riled up.
The mention of biotin and other drugs here doesn't seem to be in context of using them to skew results , It's to make readers aware that they may lower the actual TSH(from it's peak).
All the other suggestions are a more detailed explanation of the thing's recommended routinely on this forum, to make sure that your blood test shows the maximum TSH level you have naturally. ie. early morning test , time of last Levo dose, not eating before test, plus a couple of others we don't usually mention , phase of menstrual cycle, and time of year, which affect TSH too.
I cant see anything suggested to raise it artificially , unless you can see something i missed ?
I first saw this a while ago , and did wonder if she might have done better to call it
" How to make sure your blood test's show how high your TSH really gets", cos it does look a bit misleading , having "ways to raise TSH" in the title, when actually Biotin and Glucocorticoids would lower the result.
Endocrine Disrupters seemed unhelpful to mention here since a) they are probably everywhere and we cant avoid them , and b) it's not known if they raise or lower TSH results.
I found Tania S Smith's writing style a bit odd to follow at first , but i must say she's growing on me now i've got used to her style.
She's managed to explain Trab's and deiodinase actions to me recently when i was struggling to get my head round the subjects.
Biotin could go either way, up or down. What's more, it won't necessarily affect the TSH - or any of the other results, come to that. It's just a possibility that it could give you false highs or false lows on one or other of the results. And, I took it that way for the other drugs mentioned. A warning rather than a recommendation. But, I agree, she wasn't clear.
Graciously accepted😌.
Emily or James? - that is the question.
Raise Nature Thyroid ?
My thyroid seems worse with every dose increase.
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