During Thyroid Disease Awareness Month, a ground-breaking new documentary on thyroid disease, Sick to Death!, will have its online premiere on Vimeo. The film uncovers the horrible difficulties that patients often have with getting diagnosed or finding proper treatment.
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Latest Finding in Low T3 Syndrome from the Field of…Neuroscience?
Yes. You read that correct. There have been some amazing advances in the field of neuroscience, published March 12th, and it affects us, thyroid patients. How?
What Is The Cause of High Reverse T3? (Answer by Jacob Teitelbaum, MD)
Patient Question: “What is the major cause of high reverse T3 (RT3)? When high RT3 is cleared with T3-only therapy, is it usually necessary to continue on some type of thyroid medication containing T4 as well (such as natural desiccated thyroid)?”
6 Learned Lessons of Change and Chronic Illness
Chronic illness is hell. No doubt about it. The physical pain, sheer exhaustion, crumbling of body systems, coupled with feelings of defeat, guilt, and shame, are horrific to say the least. It can reduce you to your very core. It can rob you of the person you once used to be. It has no mercy.
How To Treat Thyroid Resistance and a Reverse T3 Issue? (Answer by David Borenstein, MD)
David Borenstein, MD of Manhattan Integrative Medicine is one of New York’s leading practitioners in integrative medicine, thyroid conditions, and hormonal imbalance. In the article, Dr. Borenstein answers a patient question regarding thyroid hormone resistance, reverse T3 issues, free T3/reverse T3 ratios, and how to treat thyroid resistance and T4>T3 conversion issues.
Blind Faith: Overcoming the Tales of Thyroid Illness
At 11-years-old, you hardly understand the complexities of life and the implication of any diagnosis.
My doctor told me I had Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, and that it was insignificant… a pill, every day, and blood tests, every 6 months.
What Follow-up Testing Should You Get On Thyroid Replacement Medication? (Answer by Theodore C. Friedman, MD, PhD)
Patient Question: “What do you suggest for follow-up testing (which tests and how often) once a patient is on thyroid medication? Do you ever find that that people have hypothyroid “episodes” and can gradually go off of meds?
Hashimoto’s, Japanese Kids, and Cell Phones
Sounds like the start to a bad word puzzle. What do these three things have in common?
Sadly, the answer is thyroid cancer!
Why Are Thyroid Patients Tired of Being Ignored?
It’s 1988, I’m 28, married with two small kids and I’m sick all the time. Although I have bone-deep fatigue, my most annoying symptom is the overwhelming brain fog and short-term memory problems that make it almost impossible to get a grocery list together and get myself to the store and back without getting lost in my own neighborhood.