they obviously must have been because there is so many of us women out here who are trying to get our thyroid issues addressed and resolved but most Doctord are so lax about itthey only check the tsh the t3 and t4 I, myself after acessing my own medical records I had come to find out I was hyperthyroid in 2005, but since then my numbers moved and no one would listen, but I still had symtoms, in fact I have graves disease also graves orbitopathy, way to go, all 40+ Doctors were so unknowledable