Posted by Pfinstegg on March 20, 2004, at 14:43:28
In reply to Re: Calling for advice from BP2 Thyroid types, posted by Minnie-Haha on March 20, 2004, at 13:35:33
Oh, I am getting a fuller picture now. It doesn't sound as though you need either T4 or T3 supplementation, as you values are all low-normal. The T4 is just to get rid of the nodules. You obviusly had a biopsy, and know you don't have thyroid cancer.
The idea for the T3 cme to me by reading a 1999 article in the New England Journal of Medicine about first, how some people don't convert T4 into T3 in their own bodies- and T3 is the only form your body can use, and second, that there was a noticeable improvement in depression if T3 was given along with T4 in dedpressed, hypothyroid patients. I'm sorry that i don't have that reference at hand for you- I put it in the PB archives during the fal of 2002, so you might be able to find it there.
However, your situation sounds a bit different- you are not a bit hypothyroid, and may even be moving towards hyperthyroidism. Can you get a second opinion from another endocrinologist?
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