Thyroid Extract Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Armour Thyroid, Westhroid
See also: Thyroid Hormone
What is Thyroid Extract?
Thyroid extract is used for replacement or supplemental therapy in hypothyroidism; pituitary Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) suppressants (thyroid nodules, thyroiditis, multinodular goiter, thyroid cancer), thyrotoxicosis, and diagnostic suppression tests.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Other | 31 |
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8 | |||
| Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) | 23 |
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8 | |
| General health | 9 |
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1 | ||||
| Hashimoto's Thyroiditis | 6 |
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2 | ||||
| Fibromyalgia | 5 |
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3 | ||
| Support another treatment | 2 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Thyroid Extract. See all 19 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Other
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7 | 50% |
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Doctor's advice
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4 | 29% |
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 7% |
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Personal research
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1 | 7% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 7% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- D'awesome
- Sex: F
- Flare-up: Severe
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- D'awesome
- 120 mg daily
- since Aug 26, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips USE Armour Thyroid for a full Thyroid balance. See full evaluation
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- WysWoman
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: mild
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- WysWoman
- 120 mg daily
- since Sep 29, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips I believe that anyone with a low thyroid problem benefits more from Armour thyroid (or identical generic) than any of the other choices. Because it includes ... See full evaluation
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- WysOne
- Sex: F
- Pain: Most
- Fatigue: Most
- Sleep: Most
- Stiffness: All
- function: Little
- external_stress: Little
- Stickman: most
- Description:F63y
- FM:12y Dx
- CFS:?y
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- WysOne
- 120 mg daily
- since Dec 08, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips To me, this is the best medication for low thyroid because it supplies both the T3 and T4 hormones. See full evaluation
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Report created on November 21, 2009.