Question:
Why can't Drs. disolve our thyroids to lose weight?
— Toni D. (posted on June 14, 1999)
June 14, 1999
a person cant LIVE without their thyroid (when it stops or slows down its
called HYPOTHROIDISM..and you STOP burning calories and GAIN weight) one of
the weight reduction meathods used for years by weight loss quacks out
there was to artificially produce HYPERTHYOIDISM...which makes you loose
weight (they would have you take extra typroid even though you didnt need
it) the problem was..that eventually, your body adjusts..then you need to
increase the artificial to get back into a hyperthroid situation..and it
goes on an an..then if and when you reach your "goal
weight"...you would stop the thyroid..and your OWN thyroid wouldnt
funtion..so you would gain all the weight back..and then some..before it
would kick back in to functioning again...
— Deanna D.
June 14, 1999
Hey Toni??
I really needed this question. My surgery scheduled for June 18th is
not for sure like I thought it was. When I read your ? it made me laugh
outloud. So thanks for the smile on my face. If this was a serious ?. I
have no idea why they can't find an easier solution for obesity? But maybe
a scientist or researcher out there may hear of our plight and actually
take our disease seriously and find a cure. But for now WLS is the only
hope so if I don't have my surgery on the 18th I will be upset but I know
sooner or later it will happen. I am so tired of all the red tape in the
medical and insurance Profession. Someone told me this," If you share
your joy with someone it doubles, If you share your sorrow with another it
cuts it in half." Thanks again for the laugh. Carol Taylor
— Carol T.
June 14, 1999
Dear Toni,
The reason Thyroid Glands help us stay FAT or get FAT is that they are not
working properly. they are slow or sluggish. This is called
Hypothyroidism. So, we really need our thyroid gland that is why so many
FAT people take a thyroid replacement medicine. Hope this helps!
I send you light and love.
JC
— Jeannette C.
June 14, 1999
Your thyroid gland sort of sets the pace for metabolism in your body and
this is a delicate balance. Obesity is rarely due to a thyroid problem;
therefore, for most people "adjusting" the setting of the thyroid
is not feasible
— Chris S.
June 14, 1999
The endocrinologist that I had to see prior to surgery told
me that although doctors love to blame the thyroid for
obesity, it usually has absolutely nothing to do with the
problem.
— dboat
August 22, 1999
For a period of time back in the 1800's the treatment for goiter (enlarged
thyroid)
was complete removal of the gland. Looked like a success quite
a long time, until they followed up the patients a few years
later.
What they found with ALL the patients who had the gland removed with no
replacement hormone provided (not available)was skin and hair texture had
changed,
mental abilities were now sluggish, and a variety of other things were
altered.
Eventually the procedure changed to removing only part of the thyroid, and
the dramatic
changes no longer occured.
Thankfully we have progressed dramatically from that time.
— Cynthia B.
August 22, 1999
A thyroid gland producing too many hormones makes you lose weight. Losing
the thyroid gland makes you gain weight. I went to a diet doctor in 1985
who gave me "pregnant women's pee" shots, thyroid pills and
ionamin diet pills. When it was all over and done with I lost 100 pounds.
When I stopped the thyroid, I gained it all back. Taking thyroid pills to
lose weight is dangerous... can cause FATAL HEART ARRHYTHMIAS. Doctors have
abandoned the practice of giving thyroid replacement to lose weight. The
eventual solution to obesity lies in gene therapy. There is absolutely no
question about the genetic relationship to obesity. It has been proven over
and over in DNA research... They just don't know how to use that
information yet, but I believe they will someday. Until then, obesity
surgery is our only option. For hundreds of years before researchers
"discovered" that obesity was related to DNA, farmers KNEW it.
You won't catch a beef farmer breeding his Charlais cattle to a Holstein
bull! No matter how much food you shove into the calf's mouth, they won't
gain weight and won't make muscle. You can feed a holstein until you're
blue in the face and you will always have a skinny cow. You can feed a
Charlais next to nothing and they will put on weight and look
"fleshy" all the time. I guess that's why farmers never
complained that their wives were too fat.
— Deborah L.
February 14, 2000
I have HYPERthyroidism. I have a BMI of 60. Just as part of the flip
side... many of the same syptoms occur for HYPO as HYPERthyroid. My
endocrinologist paraded me in front of his interns to show them what
happens in 2% oh Hyperthyroids. I gained and gained and gained. Turns
out.. I produced so much of T3 (part of what the thyroid stimulating
hormone churns out), that I was suffering from toxicosis (when the body
literally poisons itself. I am going to have my Thyroid (goiter) removerd
after recovery from WLS, and then will go about trying to regulate my body
with synthetic hormone.
— lisadiehl
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