Re: Feelings!!!!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sinaj101) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Low body temp MAY be an indication of low thyroid output..."hypothyroidism".
> >
> >Ask doc to check...and also for thyroid antibodies.
> 
> "I have this too and all thyroid tests are normal".

Yeah...seems like that is a very common situation you encounter on
Lyme discussion/newsgroup/forums...that is, you have what appear to be
symptoms of hypothyroidism, but tests only fall within "normal"
ranges.

Mine have only recently tested out abnormal, but based on the almost
immediate relief I began to experience,(from thyroid replacement
therapy) and the fact that some symptoms which just seemed to melt
away overnight...and the fact that I'd been experiencing them from the
beginning...my guess is the symptoms were there all along and
attributable to a thyroid problem of some sort. Biggest jump in
wellness I've had since the beginning...NOT the answer to the whole
deal, though...the thyroid maintains "balance", I guess, over a lot of
bodily functions.

(But it is interesting to compare the symptom list of hypothyroidism
against the Lyme symptom list).

The "norms" in thyroid testing as I understand it, are also somewhat
controversial...prone to the same sort of interpretation problems we
are familiar with here.

Burrascano, if I remember correctly, maintains that patients may
encounter thyroid hormone difficulties at the cellular receptor
level...and still test within normal ranges.