at times, make our issues tame by comparison. Usually ignored by docs till patient is near death and FINALLY the standard round of blood work shows the messed up TSH...

Then there's the art of finding a good doc who really knows thyroid and other endo issues...Not all endo's are good-then many GP's or Internal docs are better in some cases than the specialists. Sigh.

Should the docs feel it's a critical issue, you will know rite away. If not, just chill. Surgeries aside [I'm sensing that these are done much less often than 'implied'] most of it is thyroid meds and then, which kinds...debates run rabid about that.

Tweaking synthroid doses is an art in my book. I have been up and down the 'scales', and back up again. I always feel like I want MORE! tho. For me rite now it's more about getting the balances of the right calciums, D's and Magnesiums into me-so it's available for uptake..whether it WILL be asorbed will only show up in next year's density scan [or how many more fractures I get]. For that all the supplement issues, the kinds and quantities - I thank you and Rose...my own last blood work says Those #'s are rite on target [in the blood], only time will tell the rest of the tale. 's - j