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Low body temp?
Just curious, having low body temperature between 95.8 - 96.8 lately - could this be a sign of thyroid disorder? I don't ever remember my body temperature being this low.
I tend to be hypothyroid and my body temperature has been lower than normal, though not quite as low as yours. Thyroid disease and body temperature are inextricably linked, since the thyroid regulates body temperature as part of the endocrine system.
Ooops sorry, I just found where we can post questions to Dr. Lupo - thank you so much!
Where is this website where I can post my question? I really do wonder if having the hysterectomy and not taking hormones is creating these problems for me. I totally haven't felt like myself in months :(
stella5349: The court action of Dr. Wilson was that of a wrongful death suite stemming from him having built a medical practice around the belief that low body temperature was a sign of thyroid disease. From there the picture obviously got uglier.
Again, taking your temperature and finding out it's low is only going to indicate that you have what might be one symptom.
(I don't know what anyone else wants to call the whole Wilson Syndrome idea; but from what I've learned - I call it a sideshow filled with nonsense!)
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kitty9309: It sounds like you have a good dr. I hope everything works out and I wish you well.
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Twilight Princess: I wish you well too, really. Having an adrenal tumor, plus you're fairly recent hysterectomy, probably does complicate your situation further than what could be speculated upon here. I agree with stella5349 that thinking about asking the dr from the other forum his opinion would probably be best here.
Hope March comes up fast for you.
Again, taking your temperature and finding out it's low is only going to indicate that you have what might be one symptom.
(I don't know what anyone else wants to call the whole Wilson Syndrome idea; but from what I've learned - I call it a sideshow filled with nonsense!)
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kitty9309: It sounds like you have a good dr. I hope everything works out and I wish you well.
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Twilight Princess: I wish you well too, really. Having an adrenal tumor, plus you're fairly recent hysterectomy, probably does complicate your situation further than what could be speculated upon here. I agree with stella5349 that thinking about asking the dr from the other forum his opinion would probably be best here.
Hope March comes up fast for you.
Sorry- I posted this on another thread, but it probaby fits best here.
No argument -- body temperature is not diagnostic of thyroid state, in that it should not be used by itself to prescribe and medicate. Its value is as an indicator, or symptom, like many others such as fatigue, coldness, etc., but must be validated with the real diagnostic, which is a full panel of blood tests. Body temperature may have even more value than other patient symptoms, in that it is an objective measure, meaning that it can be measured and assigned a number. Other symptoms are subjective, since they can only be described in general terms such as heavy or light. If we accepted that body temperature should be ignored, then similarly all other symptoms should be ignored, since they are not diagnostic either.
Body temperature was a much more valuable tool in past years when thyroid blood testing was less accurate than today and doctors considered any TSH reading under 5.0 as "normal".
Of course body temperature, as well as the other symptoms, can be affected by factors other than thyroid and metabolism levels, but this should not preclude any symptom from being considered as part of the overall picture. Carefully checked, normal body temperatures, have a high degree of correlation with metabolic rate. This is a link to a study on that.
http://ajpendo.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/263/4/E730
In my own case many years ago, low basal temperature (96.9) and other symptoms led me to question the diagnosis of "normal", when my TSH was slightly below 5.0. This eventually led to Synthroid (T4) medication, at a full daily replacement level of 200 mcg. Even then it did not fully alleviate my symptoms and my basal temperature peaked at 97.2 or so. Only after learning about the importance of free T3 testing, and requesting FT4 and FT3 testing, did I get a clue as to why. Even though my total T4 level was at the very extreme of its range, my free T3 level was at the bottom of its range, due to conversion problems, which occur infrequently. Since being switched to a T4/T3 med. 6 weeks ago, my free T3 has already increased to the mid-point of the range, my basal temp. has increased to about 97.6, and I feel the best ever. My symptomatic low basal temp. did not indicate a free T3 problem, but it did help identify for me that I still had a potential problem of less than optimal metabolism, which needed to be pursued through additional blood testing. I still have one more slight increase in Armour thyroid to go. Will be interesting to get to the full effect.
No argument -- body temperature is not diagnostic of thyroid state, in that it should not be used by itself to prescribe and medicate. Its value is as an indicator, or symptom, like many others such as fatigue, coldness, etc., but must be validated with the real diagnostic, which is a full panel of blood tests. Body temperature may have even more value than other patient symptoms, in that it is an objective measure, meaning that it can be measured and assigned a number. Other symptoms are subjective, since they can only be described in general terms such as heavy or light. If we accepted that body temperature should be ignored, then similarly all other symptoms should be ignored, since they are not diagnostic either.
Body temperature was a much more valuable tool in past years when thyroid blood testing was less accurate than today and doctors considered any TSH reading under 5.0 as "normal".
Of course body temperature, as well as the other symptoms, can be affected by factors other than thyroid and metabolism levels, but this should not preclude any symptom from being considered as part of the overall picture. Carefully checked, normal body temperatures, have a high degree of correlation with metabolic rate. This is a link to a study on that.
http://ajpendo.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/263/4/E730
In my own case many years ago, low basal temperature (96.9) and other symptoms led me to question the diagnosis of "normal", when my TSH was slightly below 5.0. This eventually led to Synthroid (T4) medication, at a full daily replacement level of 200 mcg. Even then it did not fully alleviate my symptoms and my basal temperature peaked at 97.2 or so. Only after learning about the importance of free T3 testing, and requesting FT4 and FT3 testing, did I get a clue as to why. Even though my total T4 level was at the very extreme of its range, my free T3 level was at the bottom of its range, due to conversion problems, which occur infrequently. Since being switched to a T4/T3 med. 6 weeks ago, my free T3 has already increased to the mid-point of the range, my basal temp. has increased to about 97.6, and I feel the best ever. My symptomatic low basal temp. did not indicate a free T3 problem, but it did help identify for me that I still had a potential problem of less than optimal metabolism, which needed to be pursued through additional blood testing. I still have one more slight increase in Armour thyroid to go. Will be interesting to get to the full effect.
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