Another history....T3-only

[DippyDame]

thyroidpatients.ca/2018/07/...

[debsmitch60]

Thank you for all your interesting posts x

[Heloise]

Very interesting article, DippyDame. Too bad they created a tsh test which probably did more harm than good perhaps. I found the article validating and many are listening.

[LindaC]

well Well WELL - thank you, once more! xox

[crimple]

DippyDame thank you for posting, very interesting research, conducted in a professional manner.

[gabkad]

Back when I was, believe it or not, only 14 years old I worked the summer in a medical lab doing jobs that were dangerous like washing test tubes..... doing urine stick testing, pregnancy tests... delivering test results to doctors (like a courier), bringing hot dogs for lunch to the boss.... a general gofer. Except of course I wasn't taking blood but did have to fill in all the forms for patients and get labels ready for tests. In those days tests were done by hand and not in huge computerized machines. I'm sure health and safety regulations didn't exist.

Then it was the PBI test for thyroid.

When I worked at the lab at a hospital during high school (age 16, 17), inpatients weren't being tested for thyroid as a routine but it was still PBI (1973, 1974).

PBI (protein bound iodine) is not really an accurate test because it does not distinguish between T4, fT4, T3, or fT3. Even now, Total T4 and Total T3 is no longer used in Canada.

The use of TSH is abused as we all know it doesn't necessarily reflect the actual thyroid status. As per this research paper:

Reconciling the Log-Linear and Non–Log-Linear Nature of the TSH-Free T4 Relationship: Intra-Individual Analysis of a Large Population

academic.oup.com/jcem/artic...

After spending my youth working in medical environments, my parents were pushing me towards becoming a medical doctor. I refused. After all the horrible stuff I experienced working in the hospital, the last thing I ever wanted to be was a doctor. Or in research which I did for a couple of summers as well. I just always felt de-energized working in those environments.

[humanbean]

It isn't well-known but the US President John F. Kennedy was a very sick man. He had Addison's Disease and Hypothyroidism, amongst other things.

In the late 1950s he was treated with T3.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_...