Posted by jane d on April 22, 2002, at 23:58:59
In reply to Actually......Thyroid med as an AD.....????, posted by ST on April 21, 2002, at 16:58:03
> My pdoc wants to prescribe a medication for those with hypothyroidism as an AD. I've never heard of that.
It's done and sometimes it seems to work.
I found many of the thyroid sites a bit confusing. They seem to assume that if depression gets better with with thyroid hormones then you had to have been hypothyroid no matter what the test showed. This may be true but it may also be that adding thyroid hormone to create higher than normal levels is what has the AD effect for some people. Prozac doesn't help depression by normalizing your levels of fluoxetine and it may be that T3 and T4 don't either.
The following link focuses on thyroid and bipolar. I think that's at about the same state of knowledge right now. http://www.psycheducation.org/thyroid/introduction.htm
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