Sometimes T4 doesn’t turn hypothyroid symptoms around

Hi Dr. Wilson,

My story with WTS

[Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome] begins about 14 years ago when I became very ill; the usual complaints however that a doctor will ascribe to about any cause: horrible fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, depression, lethargy, the list goes on… i really though I was dying!

Unfortunately I was diagnosed by a family doctor with what she said was borderline hypothyroidism and started on T4. I did feel somewhat better at first, but then shortly after got worse upon which she upped my dose. This went on for about one year with the doctor increasing my dose yet my symptoms returning.

I really feel at this point if I had been treated for WTS and not hypothyroidism I could have been cured, and I feel that the T4 therapy suppressed my system and made me hypothyroid although I have since been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease so I could be wrong.

I decided to stop taking T4 medicine, but this did not help either and my symptoms returned even worse than before. At this point a TSH test showed me being off the charts hypothyroid. I agreed to go back on T4 but really didn’t get any benefit.

I discovered by accident that I had a persistently low body temperature.Then I discovered your web site and everything you spoke about fit my condition exactly, especially the low body temperature. My temperature was consistently in the high 96 low 97 range. I found a doctor who treated me with the WTS and stopped taking T4 medicine. It took about a year for me to capture my temperature…it was apparent to me that T3 made me feel better.

After capturing my temperature the doctor put me on Armour thyroid and I remained on Armour thyroid for several years with no return of my symptoms.
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An interesting note to make is that I have seen the inverse relationship between low thyroid/body temperature and high cholesterol and also the relationship between low thyroid/body temperature and testosterone.

**If possible I don’t ever want to take any T4 in any form ever again

I am a major WTS advocate and have directed a lot of people to your web site. The theory of WTS is actually very simple to understand and the treatment is very simple too. I get frustrated by people and especially doctors who would consider every other treatment and even ones that are very bad for a person without even trying a trial of T3 therapy when someone has a low body temperature.

Thank you for what you have done and please let me know if there is any way I can support your work.

Sincerely, P.R.

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