Something of interest for you!

[redheadaussie]

I am sure this will cause a bit of a stir!
Now you can understand why my doc won't give me any T3!


'Combined thyroxine and liothyronine (T3) therapy is being promoted, particularly on some Internet sites, for patients whose symptoms persist despite apparently adequate thyroxine therapy. There are few published data to support this practice, and a recent Australian study showed no benefit. Thus, it should be discouraged in the absence of evidence of benefit, with thyroxine alone remaining standard therapy.'

You will have to google this in to get the link   HYPOTHYROIDISM and HYPERTHYROIDISM - Thyroid Australia (Brisbane ...      

It is a document so the link wasn't working to show you, but google the above in and then you can load the doc and have a read. Highly recommended!

[redheadaussie]

Hee hee, yes I agree! I am sure an oil change in his BMW or Audi or what ever he drives costs more than the full article!

[gimel]

I think you should give a copy of the abstract to your doctor and suggest that he ought to spring for the cost of the full article, and give a copy to you.  What do you think?  LOL

[redheadaussie]

Yep, amazing isn't it! Seems the Aussie doctors don't have any data on it, coz they never asked for it in the first place! Being such a small population, and having dumb doctors, who don't even diagnose that many people have thyroid disease in the first place, no wonder there is no evidence to support T3 supplementation!  Note they do not say how many were used in the trial to obtain 'there was no benefit.'  
Your link was a paid to view site, so I would like to have seen the whole thing, rather than the abstract view. Sigh.....

[gimel]

The arrogance and ignorance of the authors of that article make my blood boil.  I am not going to get into all the errors that I see.  I just wanted to give you a link to a study that showed an amazing correlation of hypo symptoms, to the levels of FT3.  I say amazing because for the numerical value for the dependent variable (symptoms), they subjectively assigned a number to the most important 8 symptoms and then correlated FT3 levels with the composite value for those symptoms.  TSH and FT4 had no correlation.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjne/2000/00000010/00000002/art00002

Maybe you should give a copy of this to your doctor and challenge him to explain why he doesn't want to treat your symptoms, by testing and adjusting FT3 levels.  Symptom relief should be all important.  If he disagrees, ask him for references that actually show that symptoms can be relieved by adjusting TSH level or  FT4 level.