Is Homeopathy the answer...

[Gillybean129]

Read this!

dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

I doubt it very much.

Many, many times I have read claims about homoeopathy and later found that it was simply a case of a homoeopath dishing out something else - maybe a vitamin, or a mineral, or a herb. That is, NOT one of the diluted-to-nonexistence formulations.

Not saying they shouldn't do so - after all, many here have suggested taking various supplements - but it is NOT homoeopathy as I understand it.

We seem to spend half our time here complaining at doctors who won't treat when blood tests seem to us to indicate it should be commenced. Not sure I am happy about a doctor happily letting his patient go off and at least potentially get very much worse before being treated.

The other thing we don't get here is time. So many people have periods of considerable improvement, sometimes quite possibly due to supplements or time or simply the variation seen in thyroid disorders, or some other illness, and then worsen and categorically need to take some thyroid hormone replacement regime. It says 1992 in the article - but we really don't know enough.

Rod

[ging]

Please do not knock homeopathy which I have used successfully for numerous conditions for years! Ging

[msglutenfreeuk]

A bit more information in the original article would have been interesting, bit of a broad statement

[alchemilla12]

as a medical herbalist , im all too aware of how complementary medicine can help people but this is such a typical Daily Mail broad brush stroke of an article -there is no detailed information to make a judgement on this.

as rod says it is hard to imagine a doctor agreeing if her thyroid levels were as dangerously low as suggesed

apart from anything else we are all different and you cannot make the assumption that what worked for one person worked for another.-there is no magic pill or potion that fits all

[Hashoo]

I'm sorry but what?....what were the results to begin with?....why would you need your doctors permission to go to a homeotherapist you were already seeing and begin treatment there? ... etc.....so many questions so few answers...as many people above have said...where are the details? the information that would allow people to make up their own minds as to whether or not this is a path they want to investigate?....and again....I understand putting treatment off for a bit if you are just beginning to feel the effects of being underactive but if you were having severe problems I would say delaying treatment would not be a sensible idea at all....I personally take herbal remedies to help my thyroxine along but my herbologist knows that I am taking it...I would not be feeling better just from the herbs, just as I know I would not be feeling as well as I am without them.....this article is poorly written at best