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Estrogen & Thyroid Function...

7/4/2013

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Attention All Women:

  If you are taking estrogen, in the form of hormone replacement or a birth control pill, it may interfere with your thyroid function and cause common symptoms of hypothyroidism like fatigue, weight gain, constipation, dry skin, poor bowel function, etc.

Their are 4 tests that help to  determine whether or not estrogen is interfering with your thyroid hormones:
  • TSH,
  • T4
  • T3 uptake
  • Free T3.
If estrogen is causing hypothyroid symptoms you will see normal TSH as well as normal T4 values. However, you will see a low T3 uptake and a low free T3.

Many doctors miss this and you need to reconsider whether that course of estrogen is appropriate, because it can, and ofter does, interfere with the conversion of the inactive T4 into the active thyroid hormone T3. Without active T3, there's no way you can function and feel great!  It's imperative to get this right.


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