Re: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

Nate Edel <archmage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Not all US insurance and health care is so bad; my Graves' was
> diagnosed long before I had any symptoms(*).because my NP had been
> running a thyroid panel as part of my annual bloodwork every year
> for five years...

I'm not convinced that wonky lab values, in the absence of symptoms,
necessarily mean there's a disease present.  If you test ten or more
things in a healthy person, chances are that at least one will be
outside the "normal" (5th through 95th percentile) range, just by
sheer chance.

> which AFAICT he does routinely for any overweight patient, on the
> chance that being overweight is a result of low thyroid levels.

Ironic then that he found you had *high* thyroid levels.
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