Q If I take recovery herbal medicine, can I stop taking thyroid medication? Can I fully return to how I was before?
A Herbal medicine cannot make you stop thyroid medication. Since the hormone from the removed thyroid must be replaced with medication, the realistic goal is to keep taking the medication while recovery herbal medicine helps raise your overall condition, addressing residual fatigue and reduced digestion.
Detailed Answer
To be honest, herbal medicine cannot replace thyroid hormone medication or allow you to stop taking it. If a significant portion or all of the thyroid has been removed, replacing the deficient hormone with medication for life is the standard approach, and stopping this medication on your own is dangerous. The goal of recovery-focused Korean medicine treatment is to maintain the hormone medication while restoring the energy, digestion, and sleep depleted by surgery to raise your day-to-day condition.
Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective
Instead of making exaggerated promises, Dongjedang aims for genuine recovery — taking the essential hormone medication as a given, using pulse diagnosis to find where you've been depleted and replenishing your qi and blood. The core is reviving a body worn down by surgery into one that can generate its own energy again, and once this direction takes hold, the condition that medication alone doesn't fully address improves considerably.
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