Integrative Thyroid Treatment
Thyroid tests can go up and down, almost hyper, or almost hypo, even on back-to-back tests. However, there is no diagnostic term called “exhausted thyroid.” You might feel exhausted, but the thyroid is considered normal. Without integrative thyroid treatment, you could get a misdiagnosis like depression, ADHD, anxiety, or bowel disorders.
Integrative Thyroid Testing
“Hypothyroid” and “hyperthyroid” are opposites. These diagnoses are not made unless distinct out-of-lab-range values appear in your thyroid testing.When there is no official name for your condition, we could call it subclinical hypothyroidism.
For about 3 years, your thyroid testing may show TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) higher and lower on successive tests. However, TSH may still appear within the deceptively wide “normal range of values” — nothing diagnosable as hypothyroid or hyperthyroid. You might become exhausted, but you enter into an undiagnosable “thyroid limbo.” You may even get an overly simplified psychiatric misdiagnosis.
Thyroid limbo is your destiny when your current well-meaning doctors overlook your thyroid dysfunction connected to your symptoms. Your current doctor won’t order additional thyroid tests (like thyroid antibodies) because your TSH isn’t out of range yet. If you are already taking thyroxine, a doctor won’t value additional thyroid tests either, since additional tests wouldn’t change that treatment. Also, if another doctor prescribed psyc meds., you will find-out that most medical doctors will not investigate or change another doctor’s prescription. What a limited viewpoint!
The full thyroid panel gives us reference points for where to focus, and to evaluate effectiveness of our treatment. The usual thyroid test, TSH, just shows one aspect of thyroid hormone (T4) production. The full panel shows the individual levels of the hormones. It shows free and total T4 levels, free and total T3 levels, inactivated T3 hormone (reverse T3), and the presence of thyroid antibodies. This gives more information about the gland function, the ability of your body to convert the T4 hormone to the active form (T3), and if there is autoimmunity against the thyroid.
The Undiagnosable Thyroid
When your thyroid tests still show “TSH” within its overly wide lab range, your condition is not treatable by prescriptions. Your condition is not a pharmaceutical case. Hormone replacement drugs are not the answer. You can NOT use thyroid hormones when you are NOT hypothyroid. Any kind of doctor who prescribes thyroid hormones for you when you are not hypothyroid is an idiot. When you are clearly not hypothyroid, but your symptoms reflect thyroid dysfunction, your condition is a clinical nutrition case. You need integrative thyroid treatment based on integrative thyroid testing. It is too complex to treat yourself. You need the help of a functional doctor / clinical nutritionist. You don’t need a prescription of the wrong treatment.
Escape from Subclinical Hypothyroid Limbo
The sole TSH test to evaluate your thyroid was not sufficient to give enough information about your true thyroid function. Routine thyroid blood tests may only include one or two “thyroid markers.” Additional thyroid markers are necessary to know what is really happening with your thyroid function, or your thyroid hormone metabolism. “There’s nothing wrong with your thyroid,” is the first big mistake. From there, you could end-up on the wrong path; misdiagnosis, and destructive treatments. It is a tragedy when thyroid dysfunction gets a misdiagnosis like a mental disorder.
Without a functional medicine doctor’s interpretation of your test results, your lab tests will most likely get overlooked. Sub optimal thyroid function (not hypothyroid and not treatable by thyroid hormones) goes undetected by the routine tests you’ve already had. Three years from onset, your level of health could deteriorate so much that it finally shows-up as “out of lab range.” They’re wasting your time. You are obviously not well now, but they tell you “it’s not your thyroid” (watch this short video).
Your Imminent Psychiatric Misdiagnosis
While you are untreated, without tests for thyroid autoimmunity or leaky gut, you may experience symptoms like lack of motivation. If you were to visit a psychiatrist during this phase of thyroid limbo, you would likely get a misdiagnosis. You could be misdiagnosed as bipolar, misdiagnosed with depression of one sort or another, misdiagnosed with anxiety, or ADD/ADHD.” These are overly simplistic diagnostic labels. Generally, the “depression” label is an inaccurate misdiagnosis, and often leads to dangerous drug prescriptions, even during pregnancy and lactation. Natural remedies for postpartum depression exist, but women get drug prescriptions instead.
“Depression” is usually not the initiator of your condition. “Depression” is usually a misdiagnosis.
Hypothyroid Misdiagnosis based on the Doctor’s Idiosyncrasies
The labeling process of depression is faulty and subjective, and depends on who is giving you the label. Throwing around these dangerous labels is a destructive practice. Meanwhile, the real conditions causing your symptoms are masked and ignored. Why? Because a psychiatrist may conclude you are depressed, or bipolar, within about twenty minutes, without any physical exam. Visit a psychiatrist or psychologist and get a psychological label. Visit an endocrinologist and get a hormonal label. You don’t want a label. Visit me, get no label. The type of practitioners you visit think that you are looking for the answers they have, so they give you what they think you want.
The problem with a new psychological or psychiatric label for your condition, is the dangerous medical assumption that your problem is coming from your mind, or brain. Unfortunately, to complicate the issue, once you accept such a diagnostic label, you and the people who care about you may truly believe that your problem really comes from your mind or your brain, based solely on that opinion. Nobody even thinks that “depression,” or “anxiety disorder” can be a misdiagnosis. So, likewise, you end up with one person’s “diagnostic” opinion, and one life potentially destroyed by mind-altering drugs like antidepressants. That is not a viable answer!
Integrative Thyroid Evaluation
An integrative doctor is willing to challenge the flawed notion that your problems are “all in your head,” We investigate your condition. We listen to you, use lab testing and a physical exam to correlate the potential true origins of your symptoms. Our process of discovery gives us a big picture of your underlying condition.
We investigate what needs correction in your body. We don’t mask symptoms. Masking your symptoms with drugs only makes you unaware that you are not better.
Part of our integrative thyroid evaluation is to consider the presence of parasites. The following quote from a study shows an example of when anxiety is due to a parasite problem. “Parasites can have significant behavioral effects (1) on a number of behaviors such as memory, and anxiety, even when parasitism is sub-clinical.” (1) https://www.sciencedirect.com/scoemce/article/abs/pii/S0149763499000354
One herbal supplement we may use with thyroid problems is: Ashwaganda Complex. With indications of a parasite, we could start with Zymex II. When you’re also a slow starter in the morning, we may use Paraplex.
Thyroid care near you
We may also use advanced tests available from Cyrex Labs, to get at the root causes of your condition. So if leaky gut syndrome were affecting your thyroid function, that, in turn, could affect brain function. Your brain would seem to have a problem, but in that case, your brain is not the cause of your problem.
Since your brain is not the origin of your problem, your brain is not the cause of your problem.
Is your subclinical hypothyroid misdiagnosed? Your first challenge is to pull away from the convincing labels of mental disorders that, maybe, someone gave to you. I understand that you may believe there might be some truth to the erroneous labels you have, but with our guidance and direction you can get out of thyroid limbo. Then, you will finally realize that you are not a psychiatric case after all.
Come get a detailed integrative evaluation. Protect yourself from crazy psychiatric misdiagnoses. Contact us today.