What Is The Wait Time To See If Medication For An Underactive Thyroid Is Working? - Dr. Ladenson (VIDEO)
Dr. Ladenson shares how long a woman should wait to determine if the medication for her underactive thyroid gland is working.
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Dr. Ladenson:
So typically, physicians and patients are well advised to wait a month to see how their feelings change and how their blood tests respond to the initiation of thyroid hormone therapy or to a change in their thyroid medication dose.
About Dr. Ladenson:
Dr. Ladenson is Director of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, where he is the John Eager Howard Professor of Endocrinology and Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Oncology, and International Health. Dr. Ladenson was raised in Missouri and educated at Dartmouth College, Oxford University, and Harvard Medical School before training in Internal Medicine and in endocrinology and metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is also the past-president for the American Thyroid Association. Dr. Ladenson’s research interests include the effects of thyroid hormone on the cardiovascular system, applications of thyroid hormone analogs, novel approaches to thyroid cancer diagnosis and management, and health economic analyses related to thyroid patient care.
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