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Are Conventional Thyroid Function Tests as reliable as we are led to believe?

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I attach a link of a blog I read from Dr Briffa's website.

drbriffa.com/2009/03/28/are...

It makes interesting reading

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At the bottom of the page on the far right-hand column of the following link (re T3/T4.) read the "Patients Experiences".

altsupportthyroid.org/t3/t3...

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Very Interesting reading especially:-

"the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists recommended that the upper limit of TSH be lowered from 5.0 to 3.04" and

practitioners ... "may prefer to treat the patient rather than the test results. "

(I picked out the bits I liked - have to really concentrate on long posts having brain fog :))

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