Some doctors will order the bare minimum, skipping important thyroid, hormone, cholesterol and autoimmune markers, making your test incomplete and the interpretation inaccurate and leaving you searching for answers or believing that you have a "hard case" or that your symptoms are somehow "in your head."
When I was struggling with low energy, weight gain, hair loss and depression, my doctors “checked” my thyroid by running TSH, but failed to check my T3, T4, and Thyroid Antibodies, leaving me struggling and spinning my wheels looking for answers. This can be the case with cholesterol, iron, vitamin levels, and many hormone markers and inflammatory markers.