Misdiagnosis Before Thyroid Disease
The diagnostic terms "hypothyroid" and "hyperthyroid" are polar opposites. These diagnoses are not made unless distinct out-of-range values appear in your thyroid blood tests. Yet, there is a period of time when your thyroid can be functioning less than optimally, and transiently act as both hyperthyroid and hypothyroid. During this time (3 years minimum) your thyroid blood tests appear "normal" - still showing nothing diagnosable. That's when you have an exhausted thyroid, and we can say you're in "thyroid limbo."
Your present condition, while you're in thyroid limbo, is untreatable by standard medical interventions because your thyroid blood tests still show everything within their normal ranges (euthyroid), and you are told that "there's nothing wrong" with you or your thyroid. One reason nothing shows is because the blood tests are not sensitive enough, and they're not able to show how your thyroid reacts when you are under any amount of stress. Did they take your blood while you were stressed (like being on a treadmill)? I didn't think so. No such test exists, and short-term stressful events like that would not be revealed in your thyroid blood test, even if they modified your test that way.
Thyroid limbo is not detected by blood tests until your level of health degenerates so much that it finally reveals itself in a future blood test (maybe 3 years from now). Do you really want to wait so long to do something about your thyroid? Do you really want to wait for your health to decline so much that it finally shows up in a blood test?
What happens before anything in your blood tests show as out-of-range? Medically, there is no hypothyroid diagnosis at that time. Therefore, there are no thyroid medications, or invasive medical treatments like surgery that would help you. You are left without any answers, waiting until your health declines even more. In the mean time, while in thyroid limbo, you experience what appears to be "depression," "bipolar," or other psychiatrically labeled "disorders." During thyroid limbo, your risk of misdiagnosis is very high.
If you were to visit a psychiatrist during this time period, you would get misdiagnosed as bipolar, or misdiagnosed with types of depression. This leads to getting drugged-up with the wrong medications, while the real conditions causing your problems get covered-up. Why? because the psychiatrist uses questionnaires and observation to conclude that you are depressed, bipolar, or whatever he/she might think is your problem, all without any physical exam or investigation. Visit a psychiatrist or psychologist and get a psychological label. Visit an endocrinologist and get a hormonal label. The type of practitioner you visit thinks that you are looking for the answers they have, so they give you what they think you want.
The problem with this new psychological or psychiatric label, besides the misdiagnosis, is the dangerous assumption that your problem is coming from your mind, or brain. To complicate the issue, once you are given such a diagnostic label, you are likely to truly believe that your problem really is coming from your mind or your brain, based solely on that opinion. So you end up with one person's opinion, and one life potentially destroyed by anti-psychotic drugs or antidepressants.
Well, that's not a viable answer!
What can you do, now?
Your ultimate key is to find a holistic doctor who is willing to challenge the notion that your problems are "all in your head." Instead your holistic doctor investigates signs that don't depend on blood tests to reveal the origins of your problems. Instead of covering over your symptoms with drugs that make you feel like you are better, even though you are not, your holistic doctor will investigate what really needs correction in your body, and what can be done holistically, instead of just locally. Example: if leaky-gut syndrome is affecting your thyroid, and that, in turn, is affecting your brain function, your brain is not the cause of your problem.
You don't have to wait anymore for blood tests. You can do something about thyroid limbo now. At my office in Beverly Hills, we use an effective method to reveal the originating causes of your depression, bipolar, or chronic fatigue, which all could be related to your thyroid limbo, and our success rate is about as good as you can get. Your only challenge is to pull away from your labels of disorders, and stick with our recommendations long enough to realize your own goals. When you're not yet familiar with the methods we use, and you still believe there might be some truth to the labels you were given in the past, this might be easier said than done; especially within the first 3 weeks under our care and direction.
My advice to you is to call us to get on the right path, and then stay on course. You can get out of thyroid limbo soon, your associated symptoms will seem to gradually disappear almost all on their own, and you will realize that you are not a psychiatric case after all.
You don't have to wait anymore. If this is what you want, then you should contact us today. Together, we can start you on your path back to wellness as soon as possible!
In support of your health,
The Exhausted Thyroid: Misdiagnosed as
Depression, Bipolar,
or other "Mood Disorders."
