Doctors Need to Rethink

1. No mat­ter what research, sta­tis­tics, your medi­cal school, the Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Rep, or your peers say…T4-only medi­ca­tions like Synth­roid, Levoxyl, levothy­ro­xine, Eltro­xin, etc, have never done the job, any more than an ele­va­tor which only rises to the 5^th floor in a 50 story buil­ding “does the job.”
2. When a patient who is on T4-only meds com­plains of other symp­toms (depres­sion, aches and pains, rising cho­les­te­rol, rising blood pres­sure, hair loss, etc), those symp­toms CAN be from an infe­rior treat­ment, and from con­ti­nuing hypothy­roid, no mat­ter how “nor­mal” the TSH lab result is.
3. There always has been, and still is, a treat­ment that does do the job: natu­ral desic­ca­ted thy­roid hor­mo­nes, more popu­larly known by brand names like Natu­reth­roid, Erfa’s Thy­roid, Thyroid-S etc, which has been around for over 100 years, is cer­ti­fied by the Uni­ted Sta­tes Phar­ma­co­peia (USP), is industry regu­la­ted by the FDA, and gives us back the same hor­mo­nes that our own thy­roid would have been giving us.
4. The TSH and its range is a fla­wed and lousy tool when used solely to deter­mine an effec­tive dose. It can leave a patient undiag­no­sed for years, or under­trea­ted.  The TSH range does not equate to how a patient feels or cli­ni­cal presentation.
5. Desic­ca­ted thy­roid is NOT dan­ge­rous for the vast majo­rity of thy­roid patients, nor is it unre­gu­la­ted, incon­sis­tent, unre­lia­ble, or out­da­ted. Desic­ca­ted Thy­roid has had fewer FDA cita­tions for potency and qua­lity pro­blems than T4-only medications.
6. Desic­ca­ted thy­roid gives patients exactly what their own thy­roids would be giving them — T4, T3, T2, T1 and cal­ci­to­nin. Pro­vi­ding the majo­rity of patients with only ONE of the above hor­mo­nes is an infe­rior treat­ment, and always has been.
7. Desic­ca­ted thy­roid like Natu­reth­roid, Erfa’s Thy­roid, etc is not a medi­ca­tion which “only works for a few”. When any desic­ca­ted thy­roid medi­ca­tion appears to cause pro­blems, it is most often due to weak adre­nal func­tion, low Ferri­tin, or fai­ling to give the patient an ade­quate repla­ce­ment dose because of an obses­sion with the TSH range. All of these issues can be correc­ted, and then desic­ca­ted thy­roid can be a suc­cess­ful and supe­rior treatment.
8. Medi­cal school trai­ning does NOT mean doc­tors are omnis­cient “gods”. A patient can have self-wisdom and self-knowledge via their own intui­tion, living in their own bodies, and doing their own research, and doc­tors can learn from their patients! In fact, doc­tors are wise to see patients as active par­ti­ci­pants in their health­care decisions.
9. To con­ti­nue to treat a patient with ina­de­quate medi­ca­tions and a unre­lia­ble TSH simply because “long term stu­dies are lac­king in the exact ans­wer”, or because infor­ma­tion is not “peer revie­wed”, or because desic­ca­ted thy­roid and other methods of dosing are “not accep­ted as a medi­cal stan­dard of prac­tice” only ser­ves to fail the patient and to fail the oath to “do no harm”.

STOP DOING YOUR PATIENTS HARM!! IT’S NOT WORKING! IT NEVER HAS! IT STILL DOESN’T!