Positive News

[missrees]

I saw this today and WOW! Someone - Antonio Bianco - is actually saying that the normal thyroid treatment that has been delivered for the past million years is wrong - there are also some new developments and it actually sounds hopeful! Anyone read the book?

endocrinenews.endocrine.org...

[DippyDame]

I think you'll find a number of us have Bianco's book

If I may add the thoughts of our much missed late advisor

diogenes

Remembering

2 years ago

The 64000 dollar question is: will Bianco (and with our help) put to bed the idea that low FT3 levels are not diagnostic of sufficient biological activity in the cells. This seems to be the bedrock on which (TSH and FT4'ers only) stand as regards sufficient or insufficient dosage. FT3 measurement has been merely cast aside as inadequate in this regard whereas of course, it is crucial in forming an informed diagnosis. The discipline will have to stand on its head to get the right vision. At the moment they are upside down and accuse anyone else standing upright of being upside down in turn.

[humanbean in reply to DippyDame]

Would you recommend the book?

[DippyDame in reply to humanbean]

Caveat lector!!

[humanbean]

AB: We have known about these residual symptoms for decades. Somehow, they were overlooked and did not make it into the clinical guidelines. We should have been warned about them, but we were not. Instead, we were told to treat patients with LT4 to a dose that normalizes the levels of TSH in the blood, and at that point patients should be symptom-free. Any residual symptoms are not thyroid-related.

Like so many diseases, particularly when the patients are majority female, those symptoms were assumed to be caused by hysteria. And that makes me so angry! How else could they overlook so many millions of women over the decades other than by denigrating the mental health of so many patients.

I felt so angry on behalf of diogenes and his team that they got ignored by AB and his colleagues.