Comments on: Q. If I have thinning eyebrows as a symptom, how do I know if I have a thyroid problem? -Kay http://www.healthyalterego.com The Health & Wellness Source You've Been Searching For Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:51:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Dr. Gary Huber http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/ask-dr-huber/q-a/q-if-i-have-thinning-eyebrows-as-a-symptom-how-do-i-know-if-i-have-a-thyroid-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3708 Dr. Gary Huber Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:52:11 +0000 http://www.healthyalterego.com/?page_id=2572#comment-3708 Wow Tonya, You threw a giant softball at me in a big looping arc and then ask me if I can hit it with a 2x4. You are hypothyroid and I don't care what the other doctors think about my statement. I went into medicine to treat patients and help them find their health, not to impress other doctors. I see patients like you every week. Let me ask you a simple question, has any doctor measured your free T4 or free T3 or your thyroid antibodies? If not, then you have not had a "complete" thyroid evaluation and we can't say whether you have hypothyroid disease until we do a complete exam. Someone told you that you have nodules but did they explore "why" you have nodules? We can't always know for sure why nodules exist but if there are antibodies to your thyroid then we need to uncover why there is autoimmune disease involving your thyroid and begin to reverse it. Yes, it can be treated. All of the symptoms you have are abnormal and MUST be addressed. The root cause needs to be discovered. It is often related to undiagnosed food allergies or heavy metal toxicity and these things are often ignored. The medical literature teaches doctors that thyroid function declines in our 40's so if you are in fact perimenopausal then simply checking a TSH is just not good enough. Now that doctor you mentioned has to concern himself with what I think of him. Call my office (513-924-5300) and take a shot at feeling good. There are ALWAYS reasons for feeling the way you do. Sincerely, Dr. Gary Huber Wow Tonya,
You threw a giant softball at me in a big looping arc and then ask me if I can hit it with a 2×4. You are hypothyroid and I don’t care what the other doctors think about my statement. I went into medicine to treat patients and help them find their health, not to impress other doctors. I see patients like you every week. Let me ask you a simple question, has any doctor measured your free T4 or free T3 or your thyroid antibodies? If not, then you have not had a “complete” thyroid evaluation and we can’t say whether you have hypothyroid disease until we do a complete exam. Someone told you that you have nodules but did they explore “why” you have nodules? We can’t always know for sure why nodules exist but if there are antibodies to your thyroid then we need to uncover why there is autoimmune disease involving your thyroid and begin to reverse it. Yes, it can be treated. All of the symptoms you have are abnormal and MUST be addressed. The root cause needs to be discovered. It is often related to undiagnosed food allergies or heavy metal toxicity and these things are often ignored.

The medical literature teaches doctors that thyroid function declines in our 40′s so if you are in fact perimenopausal then simply checking a TSH is just not good enough. Now that doctor you mentioned has to concern himself with what I think of him.

Call my office (513-924-5300) and take a shot at feeling good. There are ALWAYS reasons for feeling the way you do.
Sincerely,
Dr. Gary Huber

]]> By: Tonya http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/ask-dr-huber/q-a/q-if-i-have-thinning-eyebrows-as-a-symptom-how-do-i-know-if-i-have-a-thyroid-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3706 Tonya Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:29:57 +0000 http://www.healthyalterego.com/?page_id=2572#comment-3706 Hello Dr. Huber, Signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism; are they without significance if the TSH is 2.9 (despite that 2 years ago it was 0.9)? I have been and am experiencing extreme weight gain (from 160 lbs to current weight of 214lbs) exercise 30-45 minutes 5 days a week, eat a healthy diet, feel fatigued, peeling of nails, hair loss esp to outer area of my eyebrown, constipation, bloating with any food consumption, sleep disturbance...ect, and this has been active with noted gradual worsening for the past 4 years. Oh, i also have a goiter but am told that based on the size of the nodules, no tx is required. I have become so frustrated with being told..."you are pre menapause"...and one physician even said, "yes you are subclinical, but what would other physician's think if I treated you with a TSH of 2.9?).. Can you offer me any guidance? Thank you for your time, Tonya Hello Dr. Huber,

Signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism; are they without significance if the TSH is 2.9 (despite that 2 years ago it was 0.9)? I have been and am experiencing extreme weight gain (from 160 lbs to current weight of 214lbs) exercise 30-45 minutes 5 days a week, eat a healthy diet, feel fatigued, peeling of nails, hair loss esp to outer area of my eyebrown, constipation, bloating with any food consumption, sleep disturbance…ect, and this has been active with noted gradual worsening for the past 4 years. Oh, i also have a goiter but am told that based on the size of the nodules, no tx is required.
I have become so frustrated with being told…”you are pre menapause”…and one physician even said, “yes you are subclinical, but what would other physician’s think if I treated you with a TSH of 2.9?)..
Can you offer me any guidance?

Thank you for your time,

Tonya

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