From: "Julie Spinner" <[log in to unmask]>
.  My endo attributes the reversal of my condition to the
> use of 30 days of anti-inflamatories (I've got a torn labrum and rotator).
> Originally the endo said that no other meds could/would affect my thyroid
> so I didn't question another doctor when he gave me the anti-inflamtory.
> My endo thinks the combination of the thyroid med and the anti-inflamatory
> caused my body to have too much throid chemical (the anti-inflammatory
> caused my thyroid inflammation to also shrink).  I'm now off of all
> medications so we can figure where my body is now.

But did your doctor measure your thyroid profile including TSH, Free T3 and
Free T4 while your were symptomatic and before you went off the
antiinflammatories?  That is the easy and less time-consuming less painful
way to evaluate.  I don't have much faith in conjecture when it's
measurable.

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