Your Thyroid Hormones Affect EVERYTHING! Make Sure You’re Doing the Right Testing!

Have you checked your thyroid hormones with labs lately?  NOT the TSH, the TSH is a pituitary hormone that tells your thyroid to make thyroid hormones, and the result does NOT tell you how much of each thyroid hormone was made.
 
The labs we need for thyroid hormones are:
Free T3
Free T4
Reverse T3
 
The labs we need for autoimmune thyroid disease are:
For Hashimotos:
TPO (Thyroid Peroxidase antibodies)
TgAb (Thyroglobulin antibodies)

For Graves’:
TPO (Thyroid Peroxidase antibodies) Hashimotos patients often have this but no TSI
TrAb (Thyrotropin receptor autoantibodies)
TSI (Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulin)
 
If you have been diagnosed with Hypothyroid or have autoimmune thyroid disease, you should be testing at LEAST twice a year, if getting stabilized on medications, then more often.

If you have not been diagnosed with any thyroid disease, once a year is adequate.
 
Thyroid hormones often lessen with age, so not having thyroid disease in your 30’s or 40’s is not a guarantee you will never have it, especially if you have family members with thyroid disease.
 
If your doctor is unwilling to run the right labs, even after explaining to them YOU pay for the labs and you pay the doctor for a service, a new doctor will be needed. You can always call ahead to new doctors to verify they will run the labs you would like done, pointing out to the receptionist or nurse that you don’t want to waste your time OR the doctors’ time!
 
I do offer short half-hour phone calls or Zoom calls to go over thyroid labs only, I provide you with a written explanation of your labs and what your next steps may or may not be. At the bottom of the page linked below, is a blue box that says “Book an Appointment”, a new page opens up to schedule, choose “Half Hour Phone or Zoom Appointment”, I will send you an invoice for $55 for this service, to be paid before the appointment.
https://farmorpharma.com/contact-me/