is autism radiation induced?

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Wasn't WWII when they introduced a lot of chemicals that contaminated soldiers? I can't think of the name, seems like it starts with a D, not dioxin but something close. They did use things for insect and plant control in some places. I think it was more Vietnam era when they used Agent Orange. But a lot of the Gulf War vets have been sickened and they think it has something to do with the vaccinations they were given before heading overseas.

If you are thinking of the defoliant napalm, that was Viet Nam.

Hmm... I can certainly have a fever. I even had one go far out of control and was 106 degrees by the time I got to the emergency room. They kept me for a week trying to figure out why a kidney infection would have cause it to be that bad, with so many white blood cells, all kinds of tests, but I got better and they gave up. Yup, I can do fever.

I'm a little over weight which started in my 30's. Everyone but me says I'm not, but I'm atleast 20lbs. over comfortable. No exercise, bad diet. So, are you saying that the 'regular' thyroid test given in an annual physical may not spot hypothyroidism/hashimoto?

Maybe I'm trying to connect dots that belong to separate things. Where's House when you need him?

inez

PS_Hoorahville, I'm in Louisiana too.

Hashimoto's is an autoimmune disease where the body attacks the thyroid and can cause either hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism or both. Many with Hashi's fluctuate back and forth between slow and overactive thyroid until the thyroid finally burns itself out. A rapid fluctuation is often referred to as a thyroid storm. Hashi's is quite common especially in families that have diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.

The tests for Hashimoto's are TPOAb, TgAb & TRAb which are all thyroid antibodies tests.

To diagnose hypothyroidism thyroid hormone tests are utilized. Most commonly is the TSH which is actually highly inaccurate according to the more reknown thyroid specialists. It's suggested having Free T3 & Free T4 tests as those are more accurate though you will be hard pressed to find a doctor that knows this. Also Reverse T3 and TRH are good tests if you can find a lab that can do them. Hypothyroidism is also sometimes a clinical diagnosis.

Sometimes thyroid ultrasounds are done and with Hashimoto's one might have to do other tests like the barium swallow, iodine uptake scan and the radioactive iodine scan to look for what are called hot or cold nodules.

Thank you so much, Ticker. It's amazingly difficult to sort out information one finds on the internet. I love this forum, regardless of whether or not I ever get diagnosed with anything in the autism spectrum.

inez

No problem. The endocrine system is one of my obsessions, so I like talking about thyroids and adrenals.

An excellent obsession! Now, if we could only convince US healthcare that it's a cash cow, they might start obsessing too. *fantasizing* I've never been able to resolve how capitalism and medicine can work together towards the common good. I don't see where the incentive is to for them to seek causes and cures as opposed to treating symptoms.

ah well...
inez

My mom ,brother and me allso have hypothyroidism.

I had high levels of lead which I think can suppress thyroid function by interfering with selenium.

I took a massive dose 2000 mcg of selenium in the form of L-selenomethinine for several months. I think it reduce my need for levothyroxine. Anyway its hard to say I
have used thyroid hormones for 13 years and not been tested in atleast 9 years

Good Lord who dishes out your thyroid meds without testing? Once someone is stablized on a particular dose they are suppose to be tested once every year just to make sure the dosage is still ok. If a person gains or loses a lot of weight their dosage will need to be changed accordingly. Also as they age their thyroid tends to fizzle out more and more so the dose may need to be upped. Your diet also effects how high of dosage you will need.

Reduced thyroid-stimulating hormone response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone

-in autistic boys.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/
query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16562588&itool=iconabstr&query_hl=3&itool=pubmed_docsum

-in borderline personality disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... med_docsum

-in fibromyalgia
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=4415750

High prevalence of thyroid function test abnormalities in chronic schizophrenia.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract

i have got hundreds of such links. many interesting things: hyperlexia in hashimoto's encephalopathy, turner´s disorder: high prevalence of tpo antibodies and celiac disease, connections to gulf war illnes. many statements of clinical practicers that they are not able to to differentiate hashimoto's encephalopathy, multiple sclerosis, lyme disease, fibromyalgie and so on without laboratory test. many say: we don´t know what we really detect if a test is positive. someone said something about "los alamos". yes, there is a multiple sclerosis cluster: search for manhattan project. playing with links seems not to be the way to arrive the destination. one abstract says: there is a clear link between a and b, the next says: there is absolutly no link. approximated by mr. spock is better than researched by some scientists

and again: if there is the same problem in a group of persons, they search for distinguishing features: no, it is not the same, this one has big feets, this one not. or in other words: would you expect that a similar problem appears identical in all people? it is time that connections becomes more important, not only untrustworthy informations itself. knowledge is not only to collect informations, connecting them seems to be more important.

only clicking around in porn polls (which s.. toys do you use and how you use it in detail *slurp*) with hanging out tongue (only tongue?) seems to be more attractive than researching. okay, it is sometimes. i love it too.

btw: which sort of people tends to technical jobs.

...but who engineers an engineer? also for this question you could start to get informations about manhatten project. or at youtube: "Animotion - I engineer"

(lost pw for acc chung)

I don't really believe in your hypothesis, but I will say that at age 4 (in 1948) I had radiation treatments to lessen a blood-red birthmark on my right chin.

I order it online. Yes I know it needs to be tested. I seen online blood test for it but it was $300.

Interesting. When my mother was pregnant with my 1st brother and myself, she was taking thyroid supplements for a hypoactive thyroid gland. She quit taking them after that because they weren't helping. She had 3 more kids after that and they are normal, highly social people. Whatever normal is, anyway.

fjm