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Dr. Lowe How to Prepare Patient-to-Patient Fibromyalgia Research Foundation
The Metabolic Treatment |
July
23, 2002 Dr. Lowe: Indeed, symptoms we diagnose as "fibromyalgia" commonly develop after surgical removal of the thyroid gland. The so-called "fibromyalgia" symptoms of the patient whose thyroid gland has been removed are largely hypothyroid symptoms. The patient’s fibromyalgia symptoms are sustained by doctors (1) denying her the use of thyroid hormone, or (2) restricting her to "T4 replacement" therapy. T4 replacement is an approach to thyroid hormone therapy that’s little better—and in many cases no better!—than being denied thyroid hormone therapy altogether. I said the patient’s fibromyalgia symptoms are largely those of hypothyroidism. What I mean by this is that her symptoms usually gradually become compounded and intensified by other metabolism-impairing factors. For example, the patient’s continuing hypothyroidism makes it tough for her to exercise. As a result, she loses muscle mass, and this lowers her metabolic rate even further, worsening her symptoms. In that you’ve been troubled by being "fat" for these 21 years, you’ll probably find interesting a recently published report.[1] In the report, conventional endocrinologists finally admit essentially that obesity following surgical removal of the thyroid gland results from T4 replacement therapy.[2] To learn about the monstrous harms caused by T4 replacement therapy, I encourage you to read our official denouncement of it. Then I strongly recommend that you persuade your new doctor to treat you with unconventional thyroid hormone therapy, as we describe it on various pages here at drlowe.com. References |
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