Hi Nikki,If your thyroid hormone levels are not at your personal "set point" then you could have IBS-like symptoms. Thyroid hormone exerts a powerful influence on our GI tract. Whenever our thyroid levels are not optimized we can become symptomatic.Do you know what your Free T4 and Free T3 levels are?
Posts by K9Mom
1 - 4 of 13 Posts
Joolie, having someone tell you that a test result is "okay" is really not good enough. What you should do is ask for a paper copy of the lab results. See which tests were done...and where your blood tested compared to the tests normal range.Often professionals will say "normal" when we are testing barely within the normal range. Since we are all individuals, the normal ranges on thyroid tests are just that....ranges. Each individual is born with a natural "set point" for thyroid hormone. When we are off of our personal set point then we become symptomatic.Confusing matters even more is the fact that the "normal range" for the TSH test (which is the most often test used for screening for thyroid disease) needs to be revised to where the normal range is .35 to 3.0 (currently the range goes all the way up to 5.5). The AACE and NACB have been lobbying for this change for 2 years now but labs have yet to change their normal ranges.
![]()
Scoot, I don't think there is any correlation between the two, other than many people with thyroid disease have been previously erroneously dx'ed with IBS due to the diarrhea or constipation that the thyroid disease caused. The diarrhea and/or constipation was merely symptoms of the thyroid disease.
1 - 4 of 13 Posts
