I’m a Caucasian female of high income and I fought for a decade to finally get my thyroid functioning optimally seeing dozens of doctors your assumptions are ten thousand percent correct. Guess what fixed my thyroid? T3 only I have a conversion problem and my body converts t4 into mostly rt3. T4 only works for nobody. Endos need to wake the hell up and realize that t4 is an inactive storage hormone and most people are highly inflamed and don’t convert levo/synthroid into t3 properly. Wake the hell up and start giving a t4/t3 combo to treat hypothyroidism
A bit presumptuous to assume that if you have had a full thyroid function test it is because you are are more intelligent, middle class white woman. Whilst I am intelligent and none of the latter. You simply have to advocate for yourself and try to have a basic understanding of the physiology of your ailment. Also in regards to ethnicity many forget that “Black Caribbean” is bogus as we tend to be genetically multi-ethnic and are also prone to European disease. Many folk of Caribbean are more likely to get a full lipid panel test when they speak of fatigue, gastric issues, arthralgia, and are put on a statin (regardless of BMI and diet) than be tested for low thyroid function. Then they have lifetime of degraded health due to the side effects of statins.
hi @bestregardsV, Dr Pete Taylor wasn't at all "presuming" that anyone who has a full thyroid function test has any of those attributes - he was referring to the statistics, that people of that demographic are more likely to have a test when clearly: all demographic groups should have equal access and testing statistics should not be skewed in that way. We'll flag your comment up to him and see if he would like to comment further. Thank you for flagging the issue with the description "Black Caribbean" as people who may be described that way will tend to be genetically multi-ethnic, as perhaps we all are. Is there a more useful term that we and Pete should be using instead that you can advise us on? No need for you to provide the answer, unless you would like to. We will look into this further.
I’m a Caucasian female of high income and I fought for a decade to finally get my thyroid functioning optimally seeing dozens of doctors your assumptions are ten thousand percent correct. Guess what fixed my thyroid? T3 only I have a conversion problem and my body converts t4 into mostly rt3. T4 only works for nobody. Endos need to wake the hell up and realize that t4 is an inactive storage hormone and most people are highly inflamed and don’t convert levo/synthroid into t3 properly. Wake the hell up and start giving a t4/t3 combo to treat hypothyroidism
A bit presumptuous to assume that if you have had a full thyroid function test it is because you are are more intelligent, middle class white woman. Whilst I am intelligent and none of the latter. You simply have to advocate for yourself and try to have a basic understanding of the physiology of your ailment.
Also in regards to ethnicity many forget that “Black Caribbean” is bogus as we tend to be genetically multi-ethnic and are also prone to European disease.
Many folk of Caribbean are more likely to get a full lipid panel test when they speak of fatigue, gastric issues, arthralgia, and are put on a statin (regardless of BMI and diet) than be tested for low thyroid function. Then they have lifetime of degraded health due to the side effects of statins.
hi @bestregardsV, Dr Pete Taylor wasn't at all "presuming" that anyone who has a full thyroid function test has any of those attributes - he was referring to the statistics, that people of that demographic are more likely to have a test when clearly: all demographic groups should have equal access and testing statistics should not be skewed in that way. We'll flag your comment up to him and see if he would like to comment further. Thank you for flagging the issue with the description "Black Caribbean" as people who may be described that way will tend to be genetically multi-ethnic, as perhaps we all are. Is there a more useful term that we and Pete should be using instead that you can advise us on? No need for you to provide the answer, unless you would like to. We will look into this further.