Morning all. This article dropped into my inbox this morning entitled "Does an Elevated TSH Value Always Require Therapy?" from medscape.com/viewarticle/99...
Makes interesting reading!
[ Edited by admin to remove personally identifying additional information on the link as posted. ]
This article is laughable. Any excuse not to treat hypos!
Normally, the TSH value lies between 0.3 and 4.2 mU/L. "Hypothyroidism, as it's known, is formally present if the TSH value lies above the upper limit of 4.2 mU/L," said Feldkamp.
Well, 4.2 may be the top of the so-called 'normal' range - although ranges vary from lab to lab, anyway, so that is a very strange statement - but being just any old where within that range does not make it 'normal'. We all know that. Why don't they? And, if they went by symptoms alone, as used to happen before the damned blood tests were invented, they would be treating some people who only have a TSH of 2.
These days, because we are generally an iodine-deficient nation, iodine would potentially be given in combination with thyroid hormones, but not with thyroid hormones alone.
So, he wants to make us sicker by giving us excess iodine? Doesn't he know about the iodine in levo and that it is recycled?
I do agree that TSH alone should not be used to diagnose or dose by, and that the thyroid hormones themselves should be tested, and symptoms taken into consideration. But there's a lot I don't agree with in this article.
Interesting article about Ferritin
Interesting article by Max Pemberton
Interesting article in today's Sunday Times ...
