I thought the standard test for thyroid function is to test TSH. Often when you test the thyroid directly you get results in the normal range when in fact TSH is working way too hard to keep the thyroid functioning.
Yes, the TSH has long been the routine test. Mine generally runs high, but within the clinical range. The problem with checking out what the pituitary gland thinks the thyroid gland is doing without actually checking out what the thyroid is actually, in fact, doing is... well... how do you know if the pituitary gland in question knows what the hell it is about. Some pituitary glands, mine for example, let their associated thyroid glands get by with slacking off. Latest round of testing (after taking a month's worth of T3 replacement hormone rather than synthroid) has my TSH smack in the middle of the normal range, while T3 and T4 are right on the lower border of their ranges. In the relatively short time I've been taking the new med, there have been some observable changes in my metabolic processes (not observable weight loss, but other stuff). To contrast, the low(ish) dose of synthroid some doctors in the past were willing to prescribe for me based on the high(ish) TSH numbers, well, I pretty much felt no difference at all. Well, I do have the suspicion that my fingernails flaked apart slightly less, enabling me to grow them out to lengths of 1 mm past the quick.
I wonder if my eyelashes will grow back.
I wonder if my eyelashes will grow back.
Mine did. Eyebrows are slowly filling back in, too.
Nowadays I think they recommend that they run T3 and T4 in addition to TSH to get a better picture than TSH alone, but I don't know that all doctors are on board with that yet.
I get all three done too, but I'm diagnosed hypothyroid. But like you WS I had trouble talking my original doctor into giving me the tests in the first place. She didn't buy my assessment of my symptoms. But she was wrong.
Morning observation:
My gel toothpaste and my shaving gel are the same color.
Shaving gel lathers better.
IJS...
DCJ, LOL!
Andi, FYI, minoxidil works on eyebrows too. Don't get it in your eyes, of course! I wouldn't try it on lashes... The best thing I found for growing back hair is a "snake oil" combination of minoxidil and Retin-A sold by a Dr. Adam Lewenberg. Apparently the guy figured he'd make more money selling it himself than, I dunno, selling the formula to L'Oreal or something.
Oh, dear. At least you didn't find out that toothpaste tastes better.
At least you didn't find out that toothpaste tastes better.
No lie! Mmmmmm....shaving cre- Doh!
My gel toothpaste and my shaving gel are the same color.
Shaving gel lathers better.
You know it is going to be an interesting morning when the man says this first thing, before the "Good morning" bit.
Andi, FYI, minoxidil works on eyebrows too.
I'm happy with my eyebrows. But I have slightly more than 1 lash per millimeter of eyelid edge. And I don't quite have the nerve to try minoxidil there. Suppresses mental image of hair growing out of eyeballs.
