Fibromyalgia, Hypothyroidism and the Theories of Dr. John Lowe

Dr. John C. Lowe is Board Certified: American Academy of Pain Management, and Director of Research: Fibromyalgia Research Foundation. He has some interesting thoughts about thyroid disease and fibromyalgia...

• Fibromyalgia is a condition typically characterized by musculoskeletal pain and fatigue. The pain can be severe and affecting a number of muscles, tendons, ligaments and soft tissues
• Innovative practitioners are beginning to theorize that fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue are in many cases just a package of symptoms of an underlying underactive thyroid problem
• According to Dr. Lowe: “In some patients, the inadequate tissue regulation by thyroid hormone results from cellular resistance to thyroid hormone. In others, the inadequate regulation results from a thyroid hormone deficiency.”
• If you’re in the TSH “normal range,” Dr. Lowe still believes that you could be suffering from hypothyroidism-and all it’s related symptoms, including fibromyalgic aches and pains
• Dr. Lowe believes that many patients who develop fibromyalgia symptoms after a trauma were already hypometabolic before the trauma occurred
• Dr. Lowe believes that the physicians best qualified by philosophy and education to work with fibromyalgia patients are naturopaths
• Hypothyroid patients following Dr. Lowe’s treatment protocol have reported a high degree of success

More detailed information about Dr. Lowe and his beliefs can be found at a [link url=http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles/drlowefms.htm]detailed online interview with Dr. Lowe.[/link]