Transcript: Sophia Porter
Request for a protein-bound iodine test led to her diagnosis
- [Interviewee:]
- I have a low thyroid level, and I found it in the medical book because they didn’t have all the computer thing, and I looked up what was happening—like crying without any reason. So I went to my doctor and said, “I would like a protein-bound iodine test.”
- [Lindberg:]
- Wow.
- [Interviewee:]
- Well, it was in the medical book.
- [Lindberg:]
- Good for you.
- [Interviewee:]
- So I asked the doctor, and he gave it to me. Found out that that was causing the weight gain, because I had been normal weight up to that point.