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T3 is getting a better press slowly

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diogenesRemembering
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This brief comment in Thyroid (on a paper I can't yet find) shows T3 use is being slowly lifted out of the impossible and into the probable.

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Liothyronine Use Beyond Replacement Therapy, with Caution

Francesco Saverio Celi

Published Online:12 May 2022doi.org/10.1089/thy.2022.0196

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Musicmonkey

Excellent!!

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK

Just managed to get to it - and it is Free Access! :-)

liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

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JGBH in reply to helvella

Thank you!

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jgelliss

Thank you Diogenes. Your hard work is paying off and countless of people are hopefully are the beneficiaries. Does that mean that Medical Academia is getting trained now that T4 is not the be all for thyroid patients? And the importance of testing for FT3. And hopefully thyroid patients at last won't need to self medicate when it comes to T3 .

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BB001

Thank you. Agree there's encouraging signs.

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JGBH

About time but it will probably take a whole generation of medical professionals to change their attitude. Thank you.

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DippyDame

To quote Ovid...

"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

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shawsAdministrator in reply to DippyDame

A very apt response and about time the 'experts listened to patients and scientists that T3 can alleviate clinical symptoms when T4 doesn't.

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loueldhen

What a coincidence! Shame we had to wait for Bianco to patent his slow release T3. Forgive my cynicism. I'm anticipating the day when I'm not allowed straight T3 because it's "physiologically inappropriate".

I'll still be dead before the stalwart UK endo position catches up.

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DippyDame in reply to loueldhen

They just don't seem to understand that dependency on T3 is/can be a life saving issue. Instead, the decision makers appear to think it's a "vanity" project that can be dismissed...and treated as only they ( think they) know how.

What would women patients know anyway!!

The endo said all I needed was ĺevo...despite that ending badly!

RTH was slowly draining away a vital hormone.

So, along with many of us, my only hope was to self medicate with self sourced T3.

Without T3-only I'd almost certainly be dying now...or dead!

The "probable" isn't good enough...

We need certainty!

Alas, one can still only dream!

I'm also cynical.

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