Finding Your Safe Dose of Thyroid Hormone

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(1) VALUABLE TOOL FOR

FINDING YOUR SAFE DOSE OF

THYROID HORMONE

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Early in 2001, Dr. Honeyman-Lowe had an idea that has saved enormous

time and provided important documentation during her thyroid patients'

treatment. She noted that each time she assessed how her thyroid patients

were doing on particular doses of thyroid hormone, she asked them the same

questions about safety over and over again. The questions were about

possible overstimulation from the hormone. For example, she would ask,

Since your last assessment, have you developed muscle tremors, rapid heart

rate, excess body heat, etc. . . . "

Dr. Honeyman-Lowe realized that she could save time by creating a form

patients would fill out as part of each reassessment. The completed form

would make any symptoms of overstimulation obvious at a quick glance.

Developing symptoms of overstimulation would be easy to spot by comparing a

patient's latest filled-out form with previous ones. Dr. Honeyman-Lowe

developed the form, which she named " Are You Overstimulated? " The form is on

page 357 of " Your Guide to Metabolic Health " <www.McDowellPublishing

com/ygmh.htm>, and anyone can download or print it free-of-charge at the

following webpage: <http://www.drlowe

com/clincare/clinicalforms/areyouoverstimulated.pdf>

Dr. Honeyman-Lowe and Dr. Lowe now use the form with each new patient, and it

has turned out to be more useful than Dr. Honeyman-Lowe originally thought.

Other doctors have confirmed this. These doctors follow Dr. Honeyman-Lowe's

advice to ignore their patients' thyroid function test results during thyroid

hormone therapy. Instead, they adjust dosages according to how patients respond

to a particular dose. As studies have shown, this approach produces far superior

treatment results than does adjusting dosages according to thyroid test

results.[1][2]