Date:   6/25/2009 11:27:00 PM ( 16 y ago)
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Well, 3 tests: the first newborn screening test panel at the state lab, using a small amount of blood from the foot. All I know that came from those are T4, which I have on a piece of paper, and TSH, which for some reason is not on my copy (and then I realized I have some different, limited set of test results given to me by my midwife).

Then there's the second panel, of which I have no copy. T4 was slightly low, TSH was high. My husband got to see the original test results at the pediatrician's. It's not that they were hidden from us, but neither one of us remembers the units or anything. TSH was 100 something, maybe 102 or so, but what were the units - that's why we want a copy, so we don't rely on our sleep-deprived brains. But the receptionist was being lazy or something - I think the doctor had the only copy they had, which had been faxed from my midwife, so I guess I could also get it from my midwife.

And then there's the follow-up serum blood test we had done at a hospital lab across the street from the pediatrician's office, completely different from the state lab. This included TSH and T4, but I don't know what else. We went home after that one yesterday, and the pediatrician called and told me what the TSH level was from that. So we haven't even had the opportunity to get a printed copy of those results.

So we did get to see the state results, it's just that we haven't procured a copy of them. I think as far as doctors go, our pediatrician is being pretty good about not hiding things from us or being too controlling at this point. It's just that he asked me "will you give him the synthroid," which makes me think he was seeing us as those home birth weirdos who shun drugs and probably wouldn't take the drug or would kind of leave it ambiguous as to whether we'd give him the drug if he didn't ask for a straight answer. That's the only funky part. I know darn well I could have said no and could go elsewhere if I wanted.

The pediatrician also could have said, on the phone when I first talked to him, "your kid will be mentally retarded," but he put it as the less frightening sounding "developmental delays" until we came in - and then he mentioned cretinism, and his colleague who put a 55 gallon drum of Iodine in China at some river with a person to guard it (the water was used to irrigate fields), and how that stopped cretinism in that area. At least he recognizes the value of iodine. It's just that he uses synthroid on infants to bring obviously hypothyroid babies back to normal range and normal development. Not sure why synthroid instead of dessicated thyroid - that's my next question for him.

When I brought up the Iodoral, he didn't scowl or say anything anti-iodine. He found it fascinating and called up his research endocrinologist buddy, who's also a pediatric endocrinologist, and that's who we're going to see tomorrow.
 

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