Hashimoto\'s Thyroiditis Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause

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Table   3:  Thyroid Medication  Dose    Conversions1,2,4

Medication

Name

Armour®

Compounded

T4/T3

Nature-Throid®/

WP Thyroid

Cytomel®

Synthroid®

(levothyrox-

ine)

Equivalent

Dose

¼ grain

(15 mg)

¼ grain (16.25

mg) 25 mcg

Equivalent

Dose

½ grain

(30 mg)

½ grain (32.5

mg)

12.5

mcg

50 mcg

(0.05 mg)

Equivalent

Dose

1 grain

(60 mg) 1 grain (65 mg) 25 mcg

100 mcg

(0.1 mg)

Equivalent

Dose

1½ grains

(90 mg)

1½ grains (97.5

mg)

37.5

mcg

150 mcg

(0.15 mg)

Equivalent

Dose

2 grains

(120 mg)

2 grains (130

mg) 50 mcg

200 mcg

(0.2 mg)

Equivalent

Dose

3 grains

(180 mg)

3 grains (195

mg) 75 mcg

300 mcg

(0.3 mg)

Other Conventional Treatments

Steroids have been used to suppress the immune process, but antibodies
and thyroid dysfunction returned after discontinuation. Chloroquine, an
antimalarial drug also used for rheumatoid arthritis and cancer, has been
shown to reduce anti-thyroid antibodies. Its use is not recommended
because of toxic effects.

For cases in which the thyroid gland is extremely painful, surgery may be
considered. This surgery removes the entire thyroid gland, and the person
is put on lifelong thyroid replacement hormone.3,4