On the surface it would seem simple. Hypothyroid means low thyroid. Add Thyroid. After ten or so days, evaluate the result. This evaluation is often a return for a blood test. It may occur in 30 days. The dose is adjusted according to the test and a follow up date for another test is set.
From my experience this is minimal and often leads to under treatment. This will mean poor results and the “hang out symptoms” referred to another specialist.
Top of your concern list, and I suggest you bring one with you to the next meeting, is specifically how you feel. List your first complaints and check them off as better, half better or no change. List any other meds that you have been placed on as well as any that have been stopped. List nutrition you have started of stopped and the result of that. Do search online or check side effects of any medicines and weather or not they interfere with thyroid medication. Estrogen drops the activity of thyroid so be aware of its addition or the use of birth control pills.
Do look at Google for the comparison of synthetic thyroid and animal base thyroid. I will tell you, if you understand quantum physics, living system thyroid is superior. Most don’t know this or have been schooled in the use of synthetic thyroid. This is all just too bad. To me it is trying to fix a large truck with airplane parts.
To stress again HOW DO YOU FEEL? Make that an issue. I use to tell my patients to hold my feet in the fire till you are well. Please don’t give up and walk away. This is a reasonable expectation and you should insist on it. (Remember not to mention the word cure. Trust me it is a four letter word in most doctor offices). In a natural medicine practice, much is known and too long to tell unless needed. You are given mostly what you need to know and what you ask.
Now if you want to know if your doctor knows, ask why three times after an explanation. If she can take you 3 deep in the explanation you are in a good place.
Here is another problem. As long as you are drinking water with fluorine in it you are accumulating a dose. That turns your thyroid factory down, down and down. Check my previous blogs and videos on the importance of understanding the action of outside doses of Fluorine, chlorine and bromine. None of it is good. It can be dealt with if your practitioner is attuned to it. If not, find one that will participate to that extent. Good techniques of diagnosis of the above are the use of kinesiology testing. (Known as muscle testing) Check with Dr Bailey. He can test on the phone. See his referral information at my blog home page.
If you want to be switched off synthetic thyroid and your doctor won’t change you, I ask you to consider my thyroid iodine protocol. The thyroid is a glandular. It does not require a prescription. Using the protocol both iodine and Thyropak can be added to you body with instructions and monitoring. Do discuss this with your doctor and have him monitor your progress. Go to my page http://deadthyroidsociety.com and study it carefully. Hypothyroid treatment is complex and yet must be managed and treated. Let’s get serious. It is your body. If it is just a matter of preference as to the type of thyroid and whether or not you need it at least I give a regimen on how to dose it for your individual needs. You have a say. Exercise it.
Howard Hagglund MD
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