McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

How to Find the Right Thyroid Medication Dosage for YOU

10 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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McCall McPherson explains how modern thyroid clinics treat Graves' disease: they deliberately dose antithyroid medications to push patients slightly hypothyroid. It's uncomfortable, but it stops the wild swings typical of Graves' and creates the stability needed to find the right long-term dose.

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But step two is to build on that. And it is what we do at modern thyroid clinic, which is to put people on just enough GRAVES medication, PTU or methimazole, make them slightly hypothyroid. And the power in that is we have you just below the optimal range. But what we've done is we've created stability. We have removed you from the GRAVES roller coaster, and we leave you in just kind of this barely hypothyroid state, which isn't fun, it's not comfortable. But then the good stuff comes.