Putting Thyroid Blood Testing in Perspective: Lab Tests, Their Meaning & Significance

Putting thyroid blood testing in perspective

For all the hypothyroidism patients struggling with symptoms but doctors insist their thyroid lab results are normal, normal, NORMAL, this is for you.

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An Old Fashioned Doctor’s Approach To Hypothyroidism

An Old Fashioned Doctor's Approach To Hypothyroidism

Oh how I wish the good old days of hypothyroidism, when doctors really listened to a patient’s symptoms, would come back again. Let me be blunt. The modern way of treating hypothyroidism sucks.

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Can hypothyroidism exist when thyroid blood tests are normal?

Can hypothyroidism exist when thyroid lab tests are normal?

Let me guess. Your thyroid lab results keep coming back normal but you feel anything but “normal”.

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When Hypothyroid & Hyperthyroid Signs Present Together

when hypothyroid and hyperthyroid signs symptoms present together

From the traditional medicine perspective, hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism sit at opposite ends of the thyroid spectrum with entirely different clinical presentations and polar opposite symptoms. While this model holds true often times, I would like to make the case that the line between symptoms of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism is not so pencil sharp but rather blurry.

Is it possible to have both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism symptoms at the very same time?

Absolutely. I have a mix of both. How about you?

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When symptoms continue on thyroid medication

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When you are taking your thyroid medicine every day just like you’ve been prescribed and you still feel sick, sick, SICK.

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The Focus on Thyroid Lab Test Results is Failing Patients

The focus on thyroid lab tests results is failing patients

Feeling sick and tired but your thyroid lab test results are normal?

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