Thyroid article

[kelkel]

Thought this may be of some interest:

The Call for More Hypothyroid and Hashimoto's Disease Treatments - WSJ.com

[phaedo]

Good find, kelkel.

I'm not an advocate of desiccated thyroid replacement, simply because the natural T4:T3 ratios aren't the same as normal thyroid output in humans.

Some patients go to alternative health professionals to get prescriptions for drugs such as desiccated thyroid extract (DTE) prepared from animal thyroid glands, which include a combination of T4 and T3.

The danger here, Dr. Arem says, is such patients could end up with an excessive amount of T3, resulting in symptoms of overactive thyroids, such as anxiety and a fast or irregular heart rate. He advocates a combination approach with amounts tailored to the individual.

I agree with Dr. Arem when he posits a combination of T4 and T3 in the correct dosages. Through the myriad of endocrinologists I've trickled through, Cytomel (synthetic T3 replacement) is scrutinized as horrendously potent medication, where even 5 mcg will throw a hypothyroid patient into hyperthyroidism. Most typical endocrinologists would literally pass out knowing folks regularly run 50 mcg on these boards.

[SEOINAGE]

Hmm doesn't mention any of the other possibilities with regards to hashimoto's. Primarily the fact that you can potentially cure the underactive thyroid by looking at what is causing the auto-immune disorder. In some cases it can be partially or fully remedied. For me it meant eliminating certain foods, results were free t3 levels at the very top of the range, and lower tsh levels. Accompanied with great success in fat loss. Unfortunately when reintroducing foods I couldn't pin point which foods affected how I felt, and I haven't run thryoid tests again since.

I find it interesting the mention of creating a properly balanced treatment method, but my point is it all can be avoided in some cases. Mind you doctor put me on t4 for a while and I felt absolutely awful, before I got a new doc.

[Beethoven]

My primary Doc wanted to put me on synthroid because my BW showed out of range. My new trt Doc did a whole thyroid work up on BW, so we will see what the out come is when I go back at the end of the month. Good article, thanks for sharing.