Your TSH is "normal" but you still feel sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.

Many of us have heard of our Thyroid, mostly in the context of weight regulation or “fast or slow metabolism.” The mechanisms and physiological pathways that both effect the thyroid and are effected by the thyroid are lengthy and complicated and intertwined with endless systems within the body. So, when many people begin to show symptoms of a thyroid issue wether that is weight change, temperature change, hair loss, anxiety or depression, heart palpitations, weight loss resistance, period/menstrual changes in timing, flow, pms, infertility, dry skin and even brain fog their doctor will run a blood test to check the thyroid.

The screening test doctors run to check your thyroid is usually a TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone). This is a hormone that is released from a gland up near our brain called the Anterior Pituitary Gland. This Hormone is a messenger that goes and tells our thyroid gland (in our neck) to release our Thyroid Hormones (T4, inactive hormone and T3, active hormone) The problem with just checking someones TSH is that all the other key players in the Thyroid are ignored. People can have issues converting their T4 to T3, people can have antibodies that attack their thyroid, high levels of RT3 (reverse T3) and finally the whole conversation of Deiodinases(D1, D2, D3) is often completely left out of the investigation of your thyroid symptoms as well as the treatment of your thyroid. On top of this we also need to consider your immune system and other hormonal systems when creating your optimal treatment and most importantly one that is going to yield the best results both symptomatically and physiologically.

You know your body best. If you have had your Thyroid checked and still feel like something is not in balance, know that there is much more that can be investigated and so much more to be done to help you be living a happy and healthy life with a happy and healthy thyroid.