“He immediately took me off the thyroid medication and within ten days my depression and anxiety resolved.”
That is most interesting.
Just a heads up on the thyroid. I was hypothyroid for years and treated with
synthroid. Dosage had been changed occasionally but seemed stable. Then
In my forties I started having periodic episodes of intense anxiety followed by depression/exhaustion. The endocrinologist found my thyroid was fluctuating. I would go from hyperthyroid to hypothyroid. When my phase was hyper and taking the synthyroid, it was like an overdose of thyroid hormone. Then it would transition to no production and I would swing back to hypo along with adrenal exhaustion from the hyper phase. The endocrinologist called the thyroid the bodies second brain