Doctor Explains What You're Missing [Thyroid Testing] - 2024

Terrific. I am slowly educating my doc about this and he is listening (maybe cuz I am a doc). I have found that I do not convert T4 to T3 with an elevated revT3 and have had symptom relief with compounded slow release T3 twice a day.

I can’t understand why Drs refuse certain tests. It’s not as if they are paying for them.

My wifes doctor wanted to kill her thyroid with radioactive iodine and enslave her to lifelong thyroid drug replacement. I fired her doctor. We went keto, then Carnivore. Her thyroid is fine, now. Thank you, Lord!

I asked my doctor 25 years ago to check my thyroid. She reluctantly did it, almost with an eye roll. She was not happy when it showed that I was hypothyroid. Then, when I told her I didn't want to take synthroid, but armour instead, she told me to find a new doctor 😂 which I did and she was the best doc I ever had until she retired many years later.

My doctor treats me as if I'm stupid.....after 6 years of telling my specialist every 6 months that I was falling asleep all the time and had to stop driving, she decided to send me to a surgeon who looked at my parathyroid! One gla d was swollen and another had detached itself. I woke up the morning after the operation and I felt marvelous! It was so quick!

I begged my PCP to please order a T3/RT3 along with the TSH and T4 she had ordered. She told me she was ordering everything I needed. Decided to take matters into my own hands and ordered them myself. Yep, T3 all out of whack. Then found a PA that would treat me properly for hypothyroidism . Come to find out I had Hashimoto’s. So for YEARS I felt like crap. Don’t give up, there are medical professionals out there that totally get it.

Easy to say, “find a new Dr”, but, as a Medicare patient (with a PPO supplement), it’s very difficult to find a new Dr accepting patients! Main options are large corporate medical groups, where Drs are required to follow the “party line”.

I literally argued with the PA to get a complete thyroid panel. She said "all you need is TSH." She eventually agreed to order it but said "but I refuse to interpret it for you." Let's just say that's no longer my office.

TSH Free T4 Free T3 Reverse T3 TPO Antibodies TgAb Antibodies “Normal” is not necessarily Optimal

Not only might you save your own life by schooling a doctor who is not aware of what a full thyroid panel can show us, but you may very well save potentially thousands of others lives because that doctor may learn what and why these panels are necessary. God bless you Ken.

It took at least 10 yrs for me because I was a smidgen over "limit" until it completely broke! But I had mild symptoms for years. If TSH is over 3 get a second opinion asap.

This is the info I love to see doctors help us with, great info Doc!!

My daughter was 10 years old when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease. She 14 now and keto diet has helped her so much . Can't thank you Dr.Berry enough for helping us and so many more find better way to living again ❤

This is perfect timing. I was planning to ask today in the tribe about testing, even thought I've been watching your videos for 6 years 😂. My Dr. refused to do the thyroid testing, so I'll pay for it myself and show him the results and have him explain why he wouldn't order them.

My mum lost her thyroid in her mid forties. I believe it was preventable. I am in my late forties and looking after my hormones on a carnivore diet. Thanks Dr Berry.

Great video Doc! So helpful! My nurse practitioner I see at endocrinology has only ordered TSH the last couple years, even though I have Graves. She told me TSH is the "canary in the coal mine" when I asked why not the other thyroid labs. I now have a primary care NP who listens when I ask for a full panel. Thanks for the share on the research!

Thank you for explaining this valuable test. Unfortunately, years ago I did not understand what the symptoms were nor what test to ask for at the doctor. Because the physician I had did not do the correct tests, my thyroid had nodules that were obstructing my esophagus, and I am a breast cancer survivor also. I decided to have my thyroid removed and am now on Synthroid for the rest of my life. If I had known about diet choices, things could have been different and not had to lose my thyroid nor had breast cancer. Thank you for all you hard work on these videos. I now see a functional physician who has helped me significantly.

Lot of providers won't do these tests due to standard of care protocols.

I went to an endocrinologist years ago for most of the symptoms you mentioned. She only did the basic panel and said I was fine, no issues. Well, years later, I still have those symptoms. I did just find a functional doctor that I am seeing next week. She has already told me that a full panel is part of getting to the root of what's wrong.

My situation is different. I have never had any thyroid related symptoms, but in 2010, I was put on synthroid after returning from deployment when the Army doctor said I had hypothyroidism. No other details have ever been given to me.