What do TSH levels mean? Dr.Guttler’s Commnets. The test helps determine whether or not the thyroid, a small gland in the throat, is functioning correctly. Normal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels typically fall between 0.4 and 4.0...
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Subclinical Hyperthyroidism 101: Lower TSH Causes Decreased Muscle Strength in Elderly. Subclinical hyperthyroid causes muscle weakness. What about low TSH in the normal range. As we age TSH values need to be adjusted toward the higher end of the...
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Hypothyroid 101: Long Fasts Like in Ramadan Cause Decreased Quality of life QOL and Abnormal TSH. Recent study or 64 fasting Muslims hypothyroid patients during Ramadan missed 1-2 doses of T4 during 26 day fast. TSH rose and QOL scores...
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Hypothyroid 101: When to Treat Subclinical Hypothyroidism? You treat when the patient has a goiter, or nodule associated with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis CHT and Subcinical hypothyroidism. Dr.Guttler’s comments on this article. Of course...
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Hypothyroid 101: Beware of Thyroid Quackery: Basal body Temperature BBT is not a Self Test. Miss Lizzy, another snake oil salesman in 2018 your thyroid advocate is wrong about this BBT as a self test for hypothyroidism and also has BBT for a...
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Dr.Guttler’s comments on this article. Why do Male patients have 50% greater risk of heart diease than females with thyroid cancer? Prior use of doses of LT4 to keep TSH low is a main cause. Older males and those who were over...
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Prepared by Dr.Guttler for thyroid patients. Resolve to see an endocrinologist or clinical thyroidologist to get an opinion if you are just seeing your primary physician. Resolve to tell your first degree relatives that you have a thyroid...
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Santa Monica Thyroid Center’s Dr.Richard Guttler uses Dr.Carole Spencer’s USC Thyroid Laboratory Exclusively. When I stopped doing thyroid tests in my office under her supervision, I closed my thyroid lab and use her thyroid lab at...
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Why We Don’t Use Stimulated Thyroglobulin TG in Follow up of Thyroid Cancer: Neck Ultrasound and Suppressed TG Are Good Enough Neck Sonography and Suppressed Thyroglobulin Have High Sensitivity for Identifying Recurrent/Persistent Disease...
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Thyroid Specialists Comments on Patient’s Use of Thyroid Extract THE Sample of Comments by physicians about Adverse Events “I never prescribe THE, but new patients to me are taking it. I insist they switch to LThyroxine”. I...
More infoThyroid Treatment 101: Time to Get Rid of Thyroid Extract THE: 19 th Century Treatment in the 21 st Century. Shrestha RT et al Endocrine Practice 23(5) May 2017 Adverse effects from Armour thyroid ( thyroid hormone extract)THE 174 reports...
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What is Replacement Normal Thyroid Function For a Patient Without a Thyroid Gland on T4 Monotherapy? Ito Mitsuru et al Thyroid. April 2017, 27(4): 484-490 The objective of the present study was to clarify which is closer to their preoperative...
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