Yes, but how? And with what organ? And has I still got one?
A lot of the folks on the thyroid comm here at LJ have switched from plain T4 to T4/T3 supplements and are very much happier with the results in terms of their symptoms -- so obviously I still have some research to do, but on the whole the impression I'm getting is that T4 is great at suppressing TSH production in the pituitary but isn't necessarily the stuff which works on the other tissues. And seeing as how my pituitary is only like... what 1/100th or less of my body?
I have a healthy respect for medical science, and a healthy disrespect for medical politics -- which usually get in the way of the science! So I always find it useful to investigate what's going on around the fringes of a topic. I've also got the unfortunate experience of what it means to not live in the middle of the bell curve. My normal body temperature is 97.4, so I spent my entire childhood going to the school nurse, having my temperature taken, and being told "Your temp is 98.6, you're not sick go back to class," even though I felt like mud. Since allopathic medicine always starts by treating people as if they are in the middle of the bell curve, I find I have to be aggressive about finding out what happens to (and what works for) the people at the extremes.
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Date: 2006-06-18 05:19 pm (UTC)A lot of the folks on the thyroid comm here at LJ have switched from plain T4 to T4/T3 supplements and are very much happier with the results in terms of their symptoms -- so obviously I still have some research to do, but on the whole the impression I'm getting is that T4 is great at suppressing TSH production in the pituitary but isn't necessarily the stuff which works on the other tissues. And seeing as how my pituitary is only like... what 1/100th or less of my body?
I have a healthy respect for medical science, and a healthy disrespect for medical politics -- which usually get in the way of the science! So I always find it useful to investigate what's going on around the fringes of a topic. I've also got the unfortunate experience of what it means to not live in the middle of the bell curve. My normal body temperature is 97.4, so I spent my entire childhood going to the school nurse, having my temperature taken, and being told "Your temp is 98.6, you're not sick go back to class," even though I felt like mud. Since allopathic medicine always starts by treating people as if they are in the middle of the bell curve, I find I have to be aggressive about finding out what happens to (and what works for) the people at the extremes.