quilter on the eastern edge

It didn't cost me a cent - only 2 hours of my time. Same results, though.

grammy17

metoo. Although earlier this week a dr. asked me if I had thyroid problems.

Ramona Byrd

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Yeah, so did I. Came back normal. But some of the medical people I know told me to check on the Internet since the usual TSH test is very unreliable. The eyebrow plus my always being cold when my sister and daughters are warm suggested to the Doctor that I did, maybe have a problem. We'll discuss this at our next appointment.

Lacelady

Well I don't have any eyebrow hairs extending beyond the pencil, but then I never have. I'm 64, does this mean I have had a thyroid problem all my life?

amandasgramma

I never heard that!! I HAVE heard to take a pencil and put it under your boob, if it doesn't fall down, then don't go bra-less.......that works for me!!! :) :)

quiltinggirl

This is a very accurate that Dr. Oz mentioned. One day while at my doctor's office for a checkup on my broken ankle, she looked at my eyes and said she wanted to run a blood test. I was like, what?? For my broken ankle?? She said "no", TSH 3rd Generation to test your thyroid. Sure enough, I was almost 2 full points off the charts on the high end, which means I have hypothyroidism (under active thyroid)! Geez, just one more thing I have to have checked regularly!! :(

jetnica

i have hair on the outside of the pencil and i am a thyroid cancer survivor. I had my entire thyroid removed, they found cancer, did radiation to kill any possible remaining thyroid cells and now i'm playing wait and see for the next six months -- hoping i can continue to call myself a survivor.

Mousie

a friend just asked me if this was true, and it positively, absolutely is true!
I've taken thyroid medicine for nearly 20 years and for those of you that do...I just started an added medicine, bc just the thyroid replacement pill no longer does the whole job for me.
I never knew there was another pill so doc's have been trying to straighten my system out for seven months and I'm still not on track.
Yup, look at the legs too. I don't shave! :shock: :thumbup: :lol:

oldswimmer

I have thin eyebrows...and I have had thyroid problems all my life. I also have no hair on my arms, and not much on my legs. Worked out well being a swimmer and all...lol

quiltinggirl

Wow, I don't have to shave either but I thought it was because of my Native American heritage! Learn something new everyday! Thanks for sharing this data too!! :)