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what's known abut spontaneous remission from auto immune thyroiditis?

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Heloise

Spontaneous, I doubt it.  I've known one person who said her gland grew back but I have no details about that.  On the other hand, I've posted videos by a functional medicine doctor who feels there are 24 reasons for low thyroid symptoms.  If you can get to the bottom of which causes you can attribute your condition, you may treat those.  Any autoimmune condition has to be addressed at it's core and since the majority of the immune system is in the gut, then that's what should be treated.

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marram in reply to Heloise

Much depends on what triggered it, and also if the trigger can be removed, for example, some have found that going gluten free has reduced the antibodies attacking the thyroid to a negligible level, which would then stop the inflammation in its tracks.  There may be some cases which seemed to be spontaneous remission simply because the person has unknowingly done  just that.  

So, yes, there are ways to reduce the antibodies, but without some kind of intervention, knowing or unknowing, spontaneous remission would seem unlikely.  

Postpartum thyroiditis is often known to clear up, but there is a danger that Hashimoto's will surface at a later stage.  

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rsae56

I've just read the new LDN book and auto immune thyroiditis is one of the conditions they have really good results with. 

lowdosenaltrexone.org

Worth looking into! 

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Bodil333

Autoimmunity has so many causes; genetic, allergies, pro-inflammatory diet, infection, inflammation.... Allergy tests and a diet that does not stimulate inflammation (sugar and rancid oils being the worst) + taking anti-inflammatory nutrients help (e.g. vitamin D, turmeric, probiotics...)

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Mr-Sensible69

In my case I would say that it was brought on by an overdose of prescribed medication 8yrs back, symptoms have been present since and the drug in question is known to cause thyroid, particularly at higher doses. GPs have only tested TSH and refusing further tests on grounds that they can tell everything about thyroid from TSH test. Did see Dr Toft, however he went with GPs line and said he saw no reason for further tests but reckoned that I had went into remission with some kind of auto immune disorder but that he doesn't think it's thyroid and told me thyroid symptoms are non specific

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Heloise in reply to Mr-Sensible69

Mr-Sensible69,  okay if the underlying cause side-tracked your thyroid hormone output, this is different than an immune problem that is destroying the actual gland.  The gland is never at fault as most organs are not at fault when you have a disease.  There is something else affecting the gland.  I wish you would watch the video list that Kai-An placed above.  Other hormones can affect thyroid levels.  Your adrenal glands can cause the pituitary to raise or lower TSH for many different reasons. 

If you are saying that a drug altered your thyroid and it returned to normal when you stopped staying the drug, I don't believe that would be remission. 

If you care to get a bit more scientific, the enzymes which act on the hormone also affect your use of the hormone.  Genetics play a part in these.

nahypothyroidism.org/deiodi...

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Heloise

So sorry, Kai.  I tried again going right to YouTube instead of usual link but it is not working.  If you go to YouTube to David J. Clark, you can see his "24 Reasons for Low Thyroid".  They are only five minutes but describe how low thyroid effects serotonin, dopamine, glucose, etc. and what symptoms are the result.  They give you an idea how all encompassing thyroid hormone is.

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Heloise

Thank you, Kai-An.  I hope you get a sense of how necessary it is to get the correct treatment.......even if you have to do it yourself!

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babsi

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/173...

i hope this is useful

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faith63

if what ever cause it goes away on its own, then i guess it would spontaneously go away..  most people would have to find the cause and then correct that.

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