Thyroid is a small gland which has the shape like a butterfly that sits low on the front of the neck. It helps to regulate many body functions by constantly releasing a steady amount of thyroid hormones into the bloodstream.
The important hormones produced by thyroid gland are thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3)
Continue reading…Levothyroxine is a medicine used to treat hypothyroidism. If you have hypothyroidism, it means your thyroid gland produce too little thyroid hormone. With low thyroid hormone levels, your body cannot function properly, which may result in poor growth, lack of energy, excessive tiredness, weight gain, hair loss, increased sensitivity to cold, joint and muscle pain, heavy or irregular menstrual periods, and depression.
When taken correctly, levothyroxine provides thyroid hormone to you and restores the balance of thyroid hormone in your body. In addition, levothyroxine also can be used to treat goiter, which is an enlarged thyroid gland. It also treats certain types of thyroid cancer.
| Important Warning |
| 1. Levothyroxine, should not be used to treat weight loss or to treat obesity. |
| 2. Levothyroxine may cause serious or life-threatening problems when taken higher than recommended doses. Therefore, never take more than the prescribed dose. |
| 3. Levothyroxine is only available on prescription. |
| 4. Please talk to your doctor before you start taking levothyroxine. |
Antithyroid medications are used to treat an overactive thyroid gland (also know as hyperthyroidism). When the thyroid gland is overactive, it makes too much thyroxine (also known as T4). The extra thyroxine can accelerate the metabolism rate of your body. As a result, it can cause weight loss and irregular heart activity.
Therefore, antithyroid medications (which includes methimazole and propylithiouracil) are used to reduce the amount of hormone (T4) released by the thyroid gland. These drugs does not affect the thyroxine which is already made, but reduce the further production. Therefore, it may take four to eight weeks of treatment for your thyroxine level to come down to normal.
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An endocrinologist is a specially trained doctors who is qualified to diagnose diseases that affect the hormone making glands.
The conditions that are treated by an endocrinologist are as following:
The common diseases and disorders that endocrinologists deal with include diabetes and thyroid disorders.
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