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Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Hypothyroid Treatment - a clinical review (part 2)

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Medgeeks

Education, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8997 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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This is part 2 of the hypothyroid lecture. We'll be diving into the details of levothyroxine therapy :)

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0:00.0

All right, so today we're going to be leaving off,

0:02.4

or we're going to be starting off with part two.

0:04.9

Now, we did part one of hypothyroidism on Monday,

0:08.6

and I'm going to put a link on this video,

0:10.6

either on the YouTube video itself,

0:12.3

which you can click or in the

0:14.1

description below and the previous lecture kind of discussed everything up until

0:20.0

treatment options and I even added the show notes I added the lecture notes on the

0:27.6

website so if you're interested in even going a little bit more in depth

0:31.5

because I did add some notes that I didn't necessarily present

0:34.8

on the video lecture on the podcast lecture.

0:37.8

Then again I'll put the link to the show notes in the description below as well.

0:42.0

So today we're going to be starting off

0:43.4

with the treatment of hypothyroidism,

0:46.0

the different options, and to how to manage.

0:48.0

So getting into the treatment options

0:50.0

for hypothyroidism.

0:51.1

Now, treatment is fairly simple, right? We're giving

0:55.8

leable thyroxin until we can reach what's called a U-thyroid state. Now, what guides the

1:01.6

U-thyroid state, what guides our therapy is going to be the T.S.H.

1:05.0

So we're giving leymothyroxin until we can get a U thyroid state with a normal T.S.H.

1:10.0

Now most laboratories are going to have an upper limit of normal of five. However, most

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