The real Reasons Doctors Don't Check Antibody Procedures in Hypothyroid Patients

Logic dictates that if the normal cause of hypothyroidism is due to an autoimmune mechanism, then the first filter ran on all newly diagnosed hypothyroid patients is a thyroid antibody test. Well logic doesn't always reign supreme perfectly as Hashimoto's Autoimmune thyroid patients go undiagnosed and given the standard thyroid gland replacement treatment. I wish to explore the most likely reasons such things happen.

The first and main reason most thyroid patients don't have their antibody levels checked is due to the treatment protocol does not change according to the mechanism. Most doctors are going to be give you synthetic thyroid gland replacement hormones, intermittently look at your TSH, and call it every single day. If you continue to suffer with the exact same symptoms as before they are giong attributed to some remaining ailment, usually depression and the anxiety, and be handled accordingly.

The second aim of the failure to request antibody tests, is a branch off the first reason. Since the treatment will not likely be dictated based your antibody results (although it should), then running test becomes "medical waste" along with the eyes of the insurance companies. The payment for a test which do not alter the course of treatment is i can agree wasteful, but the real waste is there to ignoring the underlying cause of the problem and obtaining the patient to suffer. Many times patients exist mocked and scorned for suggesting an examination or treatment a bit outside of where the tight little box Hashimoto's patients are placed in.

Having no alternative technique to Autoimmune thyroid, and the resultant medical waste inside the test ordered but thats got no bearing on the patients treatment add some two main reasons to most Hashimoto's patients go undiagnosed and ignored within system.

Determining that hypothyroidism is derived from an immune mechanism, Is vital, and should absolutely be managed in more comprehensive way, not only including a number of replacement hormone, but it will also include management of that immune systems destruction around the gland itself. A more comprehensive get to gives the patient an improved chance to feel and real normally.

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