T3 -Induced Recovery from Fibromyalgia by a Hypothyroid Patient Resistant to T4 and Desiccated Thyroid

[shaws]

The following is a repeat that I linked a while ago but thought it might be useful to members who have not read it . It is by a Doctor/Researcher/Scientist (Dr John Lowe) and expert on thyroid hormones who was also an Adviser to Thyroiduk before his accidental death.

drlowe.com/thyroidscience/c...

[HowNowWhatNow]

Very grateful to those of you who keep this man’s legacy alive. Was he given any medical accolades during his lifetime?

[shaws Administrator in reply to HowNowWhatNow]

Unfortunately, he was pursued as if he was a criminal and resigned his Licence so that he could still do his research from his bed and to help/advise people who still had miserable symptoms . He would not prescribe levo. He only prescribed NDTs or T3 to those who were resistant.

It was a very bad fall that caused a bleed in his brain but he continued in his bed to do his work in helping relieve/restore many people's health. He is badly missed as he wasn't afraid to state the truth and the priority was to restore people's health where possible.

He became interested as a very young teenager to try to find out what causes people to take their own lives, as did his father and his father's brothers, He knew first hand how a family felt/suffered in the aftermath of those events and how he then began his research looking for an answer..

[jgelliss in reply to shaws]

Dr Lowe whom I only got to hear about his great work on this forum in specific from Shaws is a tremendous loss for the thyroid community. I hope that there are more dedicated Dr's out there who care about patients wellbeing as Dr Lowes was to his patients and more.

Thank you Shaws for keeping Dr Lowes legacy alive.

[dtate2016]

Thank you Shaws! This article is worthy of Repeating often. I have also shared before that vets here in America are treating animals with fibromyalgia (they call it something else in animals) with T3 / dessicated bovine glandular - very successfully. I have a family member who is almost debilitated / handicapped (receives government assistance) - disability is fibromyalgia (official diagnosis). Her dog had the same problem - emphasis on had! She was so pleased that the vet had made the dog well! I asked to see the medicine and pointed out that it was T3, and that she should see if her own Dr. would prescribe something similar. She did not take it seriously and still suffers, now for over a decade. The dog in the meantime lived a full and healthy life. This paper could help convince an honest Dr. (And those suffering) to look in a new direction.

[HowNowWhatNow in reply to dtate2016]

This is a tragic story. I’m so sorry for your friend.

Funnily, not the first time someone has brought up vets as offering a better service than doctors for thyroid issues.

Are there any papers where vets / vet scientists discuss what they know about the thyroid and the implications for humans? There must be, I’m just not aware of them.

Remembering that my aunt’s dog had exactly the same heart medicine as my granddad, and the fun we had trying to get my grandad take the dog’s pill.

[Alanna012 in reply to dtate2016]

Oh the irony. Vets are more opened minded than doctors are. It isn't a dog's life after all....

[jgelliss in reply to Alanna012]

I agree that dogs get very good medical care as they should . Where does the humans quality care come in to play too? Something is so very wrong with the medical system. And it sounds to me it's globally. How can this be allowed to happen ?

[PrincessAnnie]

This is very interesting thank you for sharing shaws.I’m going to print this out and add it to my own files I’m keeping,I’ll need to look into Dr Lowe some more there doesn’t seem to be many doctors about like him anymore.

[shaws Administrator in reply to PrincessAnnie]

I think he was the only doctor whose aim was to 'relieve all clinical symptoms' to help patient towards recovery.

[jgelliss in reply to shaws]

Dr Lowe should have been cloned. He sounded like the kind of Dr we all dream of. We need more Dr's like Dr Lowes. A good listener and out of the *Box* Dr who treats the symptoms and is not afraid.

[Alanna012 in reply to jgelliss]

What was especially great was that he was an outspoken critic of the medical 'system' as well as an advocate for his patients. He'd write to endocrinology societies critiquing them, was happy to speak in the media and was happy to defend those who can't speak for themselves.

There are a few very good doctors specialising in thyroid illness, and we should be very grateful for them, but none of them are willing to put their heads above the water and their jobs on the line in defence of suffering people, maybe that's understandable, but a few are just content to just help those patients willing to cough up £££ or else concentrating on building an empire selling their special line of overpriced supplements.

[jgelliss in reply to Alanna012]

So well said. Thank you Alanna012.

[shaws Administrator in reply to jgelliss]

When he was a young boy his father and his father's brothers, took their own lives (I assume at different times).

Dr Lowe was fully aware of the devastation this caused to the families and friends.

That's when he became interested to try to fathom out why someone would be driven to do so and researched.

I believe that's when he found out that a low T3 may be the reason.

Even if someone is diagnosed as 'depressed' when being hypo, I doubt they will be prescribed T3 but probably anti-depressants.

Excerpt:-

!Today, it is well recognized that disturbances in thyroid function may significantly affect mental status including emotion and cognition. Both excess and insufficient thyroid hormones can cause mood abnormalities including depression that is generally reversible with adequate thyroid treatment. On the other hand, depression can be accompanied by subtle thyroid dysfunction. Overt thyroid disease is rare in depression. One to 4% of patients with affective disorders are found to have overt hypothyroidism while subclinical hypothyroidism occurs in 4% to 40% of these patients [2]. Furthermore, thyroid hormones are reported by many authors to be an effective adjunct treatment for depression.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

[jgelliss in reply to shaws]

Shaws Dr Lowes was ahead of his times. T3 has many more affects on us I think that we can't even imagine. There is a reason why so many do so well on T3 alone.

[Kowbie]

That was very interesting, it’s very sad that it’s down to money for T3 , because surely in the long run it would work out maybe cheaper as there wouldn’t be so many patients having to go to the drs as often as they have to because they don’t feel well , if they were given the proper medication in the first place , not too good at explaining things but hope you get my gist ,thanks kowbie

[shaws Administrator in reply to Kowbie]

No need to be shy as your response is very clear

[HowNowWhatNow in reply to shaws]

Yes Kowbie - your response hits the nail on the head.

It isn’t just right to give patients the treatment that they tell you works (as opposed to the one that is short term most cost effective and that they tell you doesn’t work which you give out anyway ), in the long term it saves you money to authorise the more expensive treatment because patients won’t need to see more doctors or be off work for longer due to illness.

Cheap is dear, as the old expression goes.

[Kowbie in reply to HowNowWhatNow]

Thankyou

[limonene7]

Really interesting and has got me thinking! Thanks so much for posting this!

[Kowbie]

Thankyou