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Has anyone heard of this doctor in Boston?

frozenborderline

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https://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Khosro_Farhad.html

Apparently he is a POTS and neuropathy person. I don't have neuropathy but have POTS. Anyway I found out about him from another patient who i don't think is on this forum, in a roundabout way. I am already going to Boston to see another specialist that Dr Levine recommended. If I could get a couple of other appointments with good specialists in boston it would be good.

On another note, any good endocrinologists in Boston that are open-minded and will treat based on symptoms and not just blood work? I finally have a hypothyroid diagnosis due to high TSH, but even before I had high enough TSH I thought about treating my CFS symptoms with thyroid .
 

*GG*

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If you are hypothyroid, wouldn't you have low TSH? I here depending upon the complexity of your POTS, Drs in Boston, MA send patients to Vanderbilt in TN.

GG
 

Judee

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If you are hypothyroid, wouldn't you have low TSH?

Actually if your thyroid is not putting out enough hormone then your pituitary sends out TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) to try to signal the thyroid to "get with the program" so to speak so they are obverse values, i.e. High TSH=low thyroid hormone outputs and low Tsh=high thyroid hormone outputs. (At least that's my understanding.)

There are a lot of things in science like that that confuse me too.