Re: Thyroid question Pammi

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Pammi,

Think you're right. I have known of several WLS pts who either

dramatically decreased their medication doses or eliminated them all

together once at goal weight.

I'm hoping so, I've been on Synthroid for years.

Meli

-- In duodenalswitch@y..., psbilyeu@y... wrote:

> Losing wt should help with your thyroid. There are some schools of

> thought that you should have so much thyroid according to your body

> surface area. I went to an osteopath who felt this way. He felt

that

> all obese people needed to have more hormone becuase of thier

> increased need. Don't know if this is just his BS or there are more

> people on this bandwagon.

>

> Pammi