Thyroid Hormone—The Missing Ingredient in Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Treatment

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Thyroid Hormone—The Missing Ingredient in Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue

Treatment www.drlowe.com/

Dr. Lowe’s extensive experience with treating patients with both thyroid

disease and fibromyalgia has led him to come to some startling conclusions. One,

that thyroid dysfunction is a component of fibromyalgia, and second, that the

conventional thyroid test is typically useless in making a diagnosis.

Instead, he recommends simply treating fibromyalgia with thyroid hormone until

the symptoms improve.

“ We give patients monitoring forms. One of those forms is the 20 most common

symptoms of thyroid hormone over-stimulation,†he explains .

… [P]atients record their basal body temperature and their basal pulse rate.

The pulse rate in most of these patients is too low for their levels of

cardiovascular conditioning. It’s under-regulation of the thyroid. Some of

them are bradycardic (less than 50-60 beats per minute).

If weight is an issue, they measure their weight after getting out of bed before

consuming any liquid or solid, along with temperature and pulse rate. We have a

lot of symptom severity scales where they estimate the intensity of their

symptoms. They fill out this form at least three times a week.

Then, it’s easy for us to chart the data on line graphs. We can see, as the

dosage increases, are the data points moving in the right direction? Is the

temperature rising properly? Is the pulse rate coming up so that it’s more

appropriate to that person’s level of cardiovascular conditioning?â€