Can someone recommend a good endocrinologist in New York City? I just got diagnosed with hypothyroidism and don\'t think that my endocrinologist has a clue about running. Thanks.
Can someone recommend a good endocrinologist in New York City? I just got diagnosed with hypothyroidism and don\'t think that my endocrinologist has a clue about running. Thanks.
Are you rich?
This site has a great list of thyroid docs that people have recommended by state.
http://www.thyroid-info.com/topdrs/index.htm
Good luck!
that website is so full of shit. any website about hypothyroidsim that has a link to "diet info" and ads about coconut oil having an effect on thryoid hormones reaks of snake oil. read farther into it and read that it has articles that support not using lab tests to determine the proper medication a patient should be on. it's all about how patients "feel".. want to know how many fat women want to believe that they are fat because they are hypothyroid but their lab tests are normal? that is the audience this site is talking to.
it's sites like this that make the uneducated think that thyroid diseases are all in your head and it really pisses me off.
Bogus,
I agree. There has to be someone in NYC who is hypo and is a serious runner. Anyone?
hey thyroid,
i was dx'd a couple of years ago and have been looking for information on how running would have an affect on the dosage and/or if t3 supplementation is beneficial. i started looking into this because of a graph in brooks, fahey, and white's exercise phys book shows a graph of t3 decreasing with increased exercise time. my theory is that people who are hypothyroid do not replenish this hormone as quickly as people who have a normal thyorid so one long run wouldn't be that big a deal but the day to day rigors of training would leave a hypothyoroid person in 't3 debt'. this could be avoided if runners are put on a dose that keeps their TSH lower and T3 higher than patients who do not do much in the way of activity.
i haven't found anything to back this up and i'm not a physiologist or clinician. but, my own experience is that until i got on the dose that i'm on now - which is considered pretty high - i couldn't maintain a training program for very long without having either an injury or symptoms of overtraining. i've been on the current dose (that includes some t3) since about april and i'm finally seeing some results of my training versus just breaking down.
but, my hunch is that most docs haven't dealt with hyopothyroidism in runners enough to know much about it. i'm darn curious as to what bob kennedy and adam goucher are on and what their docs have to say about this.
bogus,
what's your email? i have a few questions that i would rather ask u offline. i can't believe that nobody else on here has anything to say on this.
Do a search using the key word "thyroid", or "hypothyroid" or whatever variation you choose. You'll come up with some excellent info from old threads. This one I found to be especially informative:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=367006&page=1
Avgjane and 2slow4lane1 are especially good posters.
oops- here's the correct link for the beginning of that thread:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=367006&page=0
bogus, email me at cappp@comcast.net