Q Since surgery my body feels weaker, I catch colds easily and get tired often. Can Korean medicine help boost this reduced stamina too?
A It's common to have reduced energy and lowered resistance after major surgery, leading to more frequent minor illness, and this improves as recovery progresses. Care that maintains hormone medication while restoring depleted energy, digestion, and sleep can help boost overall reduced stamina.
Detailed Answer
After thyroid surgery, hormonal changes and surgical depletion overlap, creating a period where you tire easily and resistance drops. It's important to first check with your treating doctor whether the hormone dose is appropriate, and on top of that, eating well, sleeping well, and not overexerting yourself while building your body back up usually leads to gradual recovery. Adequate nutrition, sleep, and moderate activity form the foundation for recovering stamina and resistance.
Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective
In Korean medicine, lowered resistance is seen as the body's defensive energy running low. At Dongjedang, while maintaining hormone medication, we focus on replenishing the qi and blood depleted by surgery and stabilizing digestion and sleep to rebuild the body's protective strength, helping a body that gets sick often and tires easily get on track toward recovery.
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