McCall McPherson argues that thyroid care relies too heavily on levothyroxine alone, leaving many women symptomatic despite normal lab results. She criticizes doctors who dismiss ongoing symptoms and calls for individualized treatment options instead of a one-size-fits-all approach.
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I've had a lot of physician kind of trolling activity on my account lately. Like a lot this week I had a physician say, as I was talking about what could be going wrong with your thyroid and why you still have symptoms even though you're on levothyroxine and Synthroid. And his response was literally, she's over complicating this. It's actually very simple and straightforward. And his theory is, I'm doing this to make money, right? Well, sir, the problem in the current treatment paradigm of thyroid is you guys are oversimplifying it. Like, let me tell you, for some people, it is simple. For the people that respond to levothyroxine, God bless them, they're freaking, they won the lottery. Like, it's super simple for them. For people that do not respond to levothyroxine and Synthroid and have a thyroid problem and they see their doctor and their doctor tells them your thyroid labs are normal when they're really not normal and optimal, and then tells them, hey, see a psychiatrist or lose weight or exercise more and eat less and they actually are just walking around with a very fixable thyroid problem. It's not simple. The problem is that we are dealing with a very complex disorder. That medicines approach on has one option, it is one class of medication. And if, if you don't get better from that class of medication, then it's not your thyroid. It has nothing to do with their treatment. It's like giving someone a class of antibiotics and their infection doesn't respond to that class of antibiotics and then telling them, well, you're oozing gaping wound is actually, it's not an infection because you're not responding to these antibiotics. It's your lifestyle. Well, no, it's that you didn't give them the right class of antibiotics. These people need something different help them. And, and that is our approach with so many parts of medicine, but it is not our approach to people's thyroid conditions. And if my criticism is over complicating it for the millions of people, slash, really mainly women who are needlessly suffering in the world, might I ask, what is your role, sir? What is your role? Is it maybe that you're oversimplifying it?
