HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT

How to lose weight

Can the medication help the people to lose a weight?

Outline of the Paper

The introduction discusses that thyroid hormone replacements drugs generally have few side effects.

The body of the paper discusses that many doctors will attempt to use your thyroid blood test results to assess whether you are getting too much medicine.

The conclusion states that weight loss pills have been a subject for heated debates and bitter controversies for decades.

Introduction

Thyroid hormone replacements drugs generally have few side effects. And for someone who has hypothyroidism due to disease, surgery or radioactive iodine, there are generally few risks to taking thyroid hormone replacement drugs (levothyroxine drugs like Synthroid, one of the combination drugs like Thyrolar, or a natural desiccated thyroid drug like Armour). The most common "risk" or "side effects" of these drugs, however, are symptoms due to overmedication. (Mangili, 2006, 836)

Can the medication help the people to lose a weight?

Many doctors will attempt to use your thyroid blood test results to assess whether you are getting too much medicine. In some people, TSH levels at the lower end of normal, or below the low-end of normal (i.e., below 0.3 to 0.5) may trigger symptoms of overmedication. Some doctors also monitor T4 and T3 -- the high end of normal, above the normal range, may point to overmedication. Some practitioners also use elevated pulse rate -- pulse can be very sensitive to thyroid medication dose in some people -- as a way to tell if a patient is overmedicated. You might assume that if you are overmedicated, you would feel the opposite of hypothyroid; you think taking too much medication will make you feel energetic, or that youll lose weight, and feel great. (Mangili, 2006, 836).

In fact, you might go to the doctor to get tested, sure that ...