Posted by Larry Hoover on February 6, 2006, at 13:39:40
In reply to Re: Study: Mild Hypo-Thyroid Should not be Treated, posted by thuso on January 18, 2006, at 21:50:22
>Go based on how you feel symptom wise and not strickly by the numbers. That's my motto!
If only the doctors would listen.
Type 2 diabetes includes loss of sensitivity to the hormone insulin. Why is it so hard to comprehend that people might similarly become less sensitive to thyroid hormone?
Doctors seem afraid to make people dependent on supplemental thyroid hormone, but there are lots of type 2 diabetics that are best treated by injected insulin (as the disease progresses). That is taking over for the pancreas, and involves multiple injections. How is it so horrible to take over for the thyroid, when it only involves pills?
Total T3 would then become the long-term variable of greatest importance, kind of like glycosated hemoglobin (HbA1c)is the long-term measure for diabetes.
Lar
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