November 19, 2008

My mouth just fell open last night.

Appa­rently, in Decem­ber of 2002, an Aus­tra­lian doc­tor named JP Walsh (Depart­ment of Endoc­ri­no­logy and Dia­be­tes of Sir Char­les Gaird­ner Hos­pi­tal, Ned­lands, Wes­tern Aus­tra­lia), and an Endoc­ri­no­lo­gist to boot, wrote an most inte­res­ting article in the jour­nal Current Opi­nion in Phar­ma­co­logy.

This inc­re­dibly stun­ning article was tit­led Dis­sa­tis­fac­tion with thy­ro­xine the­rapy — could the patients be right? 

The abs­tract states:

In some patients with hypothy­roi­dism, symp­toms of ill health per­sist des­pite thy­ro­xine treat­ment. It is unc­lear whether this ari­ses from comor­bi­dity or because stan­dard thy­ro­xine repla­ce­ment is in some way ina­de­quate for some indi­vi­duals. Some patients feel bet­ter if they take a slightly exces­sive dose of thy­ro­xine, but this carries a poten­tial risk of adverse car­diac and ske­le­tal effects. There are con­flic­ting data on whether com­bi­ned thyroxine/triiodothyronine treat­ment is pre­fe­ra­ble to thy­ro­xine alone in dis­sa­tis­fied patients 

I am una­ble to read the full article, as it is requi­red that you pay a sum I don’t have. But you defi­ni­tely get the impres­sion that this doc­tor was on the cusp of figu­ring out what we have known solidly all along.  Because Dr. Walsh, the patients WERE right, and still are.  Synth­roid, Levoxyl, Eltro­xin, levothy­ro­xine and all other T4-only medi­ca­tions suck, and have suc­ked for a long, long time.  www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/t4-only-meds-dont-work and  www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/long-and-pathetic

I so hope to be able to con­tact Dr. Walsh.  Do you know him?  Because he and I need to have a long talk.

Janie

p.s. Thank you Gerry.

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3 Responses to “Yes, Dr. Walsh of Australia, patients were right about T4-only therapy.”

  1. Louise said:

    Nov 19, 08 at 9:11 pm

    http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/88/10/4543

    Some further info and contacts!

    (from Janie: Louise sent a link to another study in 2003 that Walsh par­ti­ci­pa­ted in with other researchers. They conc­lu­ded that “in the doses used in this study, com­bi­ned T4/T3 treat­ment does not improve well-being, cog­ni­tive func­tion, or qua­lity of life com­pa­red with T4 alone.” Well of course!! The par­ti­ci­pants weren’t given enough, and the researchers didn’t recog­nize that the obser­ved “anxiety and nau­sea” was due to undiag­no­sed and untrea­ted adre­nal fati­gue! Thanks, Louise, for sen­ding that.)

  2. Jennifer Hickey said:

    Dec 07, 08 at 4:25 pm

    Hi,
    Thank you for your web site. It was great to know that I am not the only woman who is having trou­ble. I have Hashi­moto disease and it took 57 vials of blood before they found it. Another thing that has hap­pe­ned due to my disease is my arte­ries are bloc­king as the thy­roid sys­tem is not doing it’s job correctly. I was first told there was no rela­tionship bet­ween to the two, but recently a young regis­tra new that thy­roid disease can lead to car­dio vasu­cu­lar disease. Keep up the good work. So many women need your website.

    Jen

  3. Irene Leavell said:

    Mar 07, 09 at 12:07 am

    I am impres­sed with the tho­rough­ness of your web­site. I want to thank you for your time and effort in crea­ting this forum for peo­ple to come together to con­nect the dots. I, like many of you, have boun­ced from Dr. to Dr. and medi­ca­tion to medi­ca­tion, some against my will. I have come to rea­lize that we are our own best advo­cate and if we do not stand up for what we known to be true.….how we feel… and not num­bers on some lab report, we will be the vic­tim of good inten­ding doc­tors with misin­for­ma­tion. The best advice I have read thus far.….become infor­med and then work the plan!

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