…like my mother. And with patients being dosed by the TSH lab test (which we know leaves us hypothyroid), or treated with Synthroid, levothyroxine, Eltroxin and other T4-only meds (which…
…the TSH (for thyroid hormone production) or ACTH (for adrenals cortisol production) and other messenger hormones. TSH Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, one of several messenger hormones released by the pituitary, but…
…Natural Thyroid Hormone. He told me my TSH (the only test he did for thyroid even though I requested more) at 3.4 was “Normal”, but I knew that was wrong….
…Diego area) before I really had any problems or symptoms of hypothyroidism, except for a non-existant memory. It was also a few years before the now accepted “TSH” lab test…
…What a surprise (not!) to badger them into testing me and for the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)) results to come back and a whopping 9-point something (normal lab range is…