McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Thyroid Lab Ranges: When "normal" isn't enough

4 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A personal testimony from McCall McPherson describing severe fatigue and disability-level symptoms despite laboratory results reported as "normal". The speaker criticizes broad standard thyroid reference ranges and advocates for focusing on "optimal" ranges and modern clinic approaches to treat symptomatic patients whose labs fall within conventional normals.

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I was 27, very much within normal lab ranges, was repeatedly told my symptoms were not due to a thyroid condition. I was literally going to bed at 3:30 in the afternoon and the rest of my entire life looks very dark and dismal. If this is what it would be. I've shared so many times with my patients, if I had not been able to find someone to actually help me, I truly believe I'd be on disability right now. So those ranges that you can be in are wide enough that your life can be ruined and still be, quote, normal. Okay, we need to start dealing with optimal and I will dig in deep about what that looks like at modern thyroid clinic at some point.