The diagnostic terms "hypothyroid" and "hyperthyroid" are polar opposites. Yet 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, but your thyroid blood tests still show nothing diagnosable. That's when your thyroid is in an exhausted state, which we can call "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, and you are told that there's nothing wrong with your thyroid. This is because the blood tests are not sensitive enough and 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. There is no such thing, and it wouldn't change the blood test anyway. Thyroid limbo is not adequately detected until your level of health degenerates so much that it finally reveals itself clearly in future blood tests (way in the future). Do you really want to wait for your health to decline so much that it finally shows up on a blood test?
What happens before anything in the blood tests show as out-of-range? Medically, there is no diagnosis at that time. Therefore, there is no medication, or any more invasive medical intervention that will help you. You are left without any answers, waiting until your health declines more and more. In the mean time, while in thyroid limbo, you experience what appears to be "depression," "bipolar," or any other psychiatrically labeled "disorders."
If you were to visit a psychiatrist during this time period, you would get misdiagnosed, drugged-up with the wrong medications, and the real conditions causing your problems would get covered-up. Why? because the psychiatrist uses questionnaires and observation to conclude that you are depressed or bipolar or whatever he/she might think is your problem, all without any physical 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.
But how can you know what you really need?
The problem with this new psychological or psychiatric label is the 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.
That's not a viable answer!
What can you do?
Your ultimate key is to find a holistic doctor who is willing to challenge the notion that your problems are caused by your brain or mind, and instead looks to reveal the signs of the origins of your problem, what it affects, and what can be done holistically, instead of locally.
At my office we use an effective method to uncover these originating causes in your own body, and our success rate is about as good as you can get. Your only challenge will be to pull away from your labels of disorders, and stick with our recommendations long enough to realize your own goals. When you're unfamiliar with the methods we use, and think 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 3-4 weeks under our care and direction.
My advice to you is to call us, get on the right path, and then stay on course. Soon you will be out of thyroid limbo, your associated symptoms will seem to disappear all on their own, and you will realize that you are not a psychiatric case after all.
If this is what you want, then you should contact us today, so that we can start you on a path back to health as soon as possible!
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