RyanCarey comments on A Medical Mystery: Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RyanCarey 21 May 2016 08:45:06AM 0 points [-]

Ok so your TSH is normal and your T3/T4 are low in the normal range because you've replaced them with some T1/T2. Every value is in the normal range. Problem?

It makes no sense at all to call it pituitary failure (central hypothyroidism) - that would imply low TSH. You could argue that it's successfully medicated peripheral hypothyroidism if anything, though that's a stretch.