Thyroflex Thyroid Test

[hamble99b]

watching an american tv medical programme called "the Doctors" I learned of this test supposedlly 98% accurate.

has anyone had this test privately or on the nhs?

sandra.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

Although there is clearly some sense to looking at muscle reactions, so many aspects of this are classics for scam that it is difficult to judge whether this does, or does not, have any merits.

For example, they have lots of information about how much it costs practitioners to get hold of the machines and run them, and how much they can make out of them. And little about the patient view.

There is next to nothing about how you use the results of the machines to decide on any medication.

Lots of information there is simply repetition of what is widely known and accepted. But so much is spread across multiple sites, separate PDFs, etc. that it is positively hard work trying to work out what they are really claiming.

I would very much like to see a clear explanation, independently evaluated, of how that 08% accuracy figure was established.

For me, for now, deep scepticism.

Rod

[Heloise in reply to helvella]

Here is a YouTube video showing the procedure. It does give a measurement of the metabolic rate, if accurate, might prove to be very important.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZZK1qM8...(Not working as expected?)