> >>Thank you to those who responded to my thyroid post. Today I went >for another comprehensive blood scan (T3, T4, TSH, Thyroid Antibody >Hormone), and I'm really stumped. My T3, T4, and Free T4 are all within >normal range, but my TSH is back off the charts at 8.8 - (Normal range is >.3-5.4). Anyone out there have any ideas, before my phone rings and my >oncologist starts breathing down my neck to begin immediate Synthroid or Pig >Thyroid.... To detox the nervous system for better emotional and physical health, and to normalize laboratory tests, go to: http://home.earthlink.net/~clearpathway or: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~er26/toxicmind.html Following is the answer to your question from the personn who wrote that site. <There is so much feedback going on between the hypothalamus, the pituitary, <and the thyroid, plus the effect of excess adrenaline being released <periodically from the nervous system, that these various tests are pretting <meaningless, some can be normal while others abnormal. You might send the <Paleo list my web site, don't go into detail, but you might post it as <"Self help measures to detox the nervous system, improve physical health, <and normalize laboratory tests". Ellie and here a letter she send me in the past jean-claude <Here is the section from my paper about hypothyroidism. <Psychosomatic disorders <Because of toxicosis in the hypothalamus the activity of pituitary hormones <may be altered periodically, adversely affecting a number of systems. The <periodic shift from underexcitation to overexcitation in the autonomic nervous system contributes to a variety of psychosomatic disorders, better termed neurogenic. Fluctuations in parasympathetic activity affect the heart, digestion, and elimination. Because the entire sympathetic system is usually excited at the same time, periodic changes in its activity affect most of the visceral organs. The sympathetic system increases cellular metabolism, which accelerates the release of toxins throughout the body. When this system is repressed, the body cannot efficiently carry out the daily process of detoxification. Tumors can occur anywhere in the body where toxins are being walled-off, but enervation in the central and autonomic nervous systems is likely to contribute to cancer. Increased levels of dopamine and its metabolites are associated with ganglioneuromas and neuroblastomas (35). Excess catecholamine in the adrenal gland is found in pheochromocytoma. Women with metastatic breast cancer were shown to live longer when they entered therapy for the release of repressed emotions, and patients who died more rapidly were less able to communicate dysphoric feelings, particularly anger (36). During detoxification crises the sympathetic system is overactive, and there is an increased release of catecholamines, which, in persons prone to outbursts of anger, has been linked to coronary heart disease (37). Decreased hypothalamic activity or increased tissue metabolism as a result of overexcitation of the sympathetic system may cause the thyroid to become hypoactive. People generally see a doctor when they are having symptoms, namely detoxification crises that involve both the central nervous system and peripheral organs, and they may be diagnosed with hypothyroidism when there is no actual pathology in the thyroid gland. In recovery, hypothyroidism usually disappears, and body temperature, blood pressure, and pulse rate tend to normalize (34) as the activities of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems stabilize. J-C it may be that the cortisone also affects the thyroid output. But to put it simply, when you are going through all the periodic detox crises as you are, during a detox crisis, or series of crises, ie excitatory nervous symptoms, your noradrenergic and sympathetic nervous systems are putting out so much stored up excess adrenaline that the adrenaline increases your metabolism and (like negative feedback mechanism) the thyroid doesn't need to put out so much hormone to maintain the usual level of metabolism. This means the thyroid can put out less hormone, ie get hypoactive, when there is nothing wrong with the thyroid gland. Most people are at the doctors' office when they are having symptoms, and that's when they test hypothyroid. When you are post flood there will be no more release of excess adrenaline, and your thyroid function should be normal. All the lab tests are rather meaningless when going through the detox process. And people are detoxing all the time even if they are not redirecting. Because of the periodic over and underexcitation of the pituitary and other peripheral organs, most hormonal systems are out of balance. This does not necessarily mean anything is wrong with those organs. If you've got cancer or something in one of them, that's over the line, and may not reverse when post flood, but you would know it if that were the case. My medical doctor tried to get me on Synthroid too, and I just said no thanks. I hope you are lowering your cortisone too, and doing the redirecting everytime you have excitatory nervous symptoms. Ellie By the way ,following her selfhelp measure i managed to lower my cortisone intake from 20 mg to 17.5 mg for few months now ( i am supposed to have completly destroyed adrenal cortex for 19 years and take cortisone for as long just to stay alive) jean-claude