Welcome to the Patient Area!
Medicine is an inexact
science but Wilson's Temperature Syndrome is remarkably "cut and
dry." WTS is very recognizable and it responds predictably
and reproducibly well to proper treatment.
If you've read through
The Syndrome, Its Treatment, and The Results sections of our site
you may be wondering whether you or someone you know has Wilson's
Temperature Syndrome, or how you can get good medical treatment for
it.
Are your symptoms Wilson's Temperature Syndrome?
Since WTS is undiagnosable
with blood tests how can you know if you have it? You can't, but
the best way to see if you may have WTS is to see if it sounds like
you. Low body temperatures produce very recognizable symptoms and
circumstances. You may thoroughly recognize yourself in the patient
book, Wilson's Temperature Syndrome - - A Reversible Thyroid Problem
which describes the syndrome in much more detail than this web
site or the patient success stories (this book is described in more
detail in the store, you can also read it free online here).
Like
depression, migraines, panic attacks, anxiety, irregular periods,
PMS, impotence, menopause, and many (if not most) other conditions,
WTS is a clinical diagnosis. A clinical diagnosis is one
that is based on signs a doctor can see in an examination
and symptoms that the patients report, not on tests.
If it sounds like WTS
may be your problem and there is no other great explanation for
your classic low thyroid symptoms, you might consider trying proper
T3 therapy. The most convincing evidence you will have
that you were suffering from WTS will be when your temperature improves
and your symptoms disappear with proper treatment.
Good medicine taken properly
Good
Medicine
The preferred medicine for treating WTS is made by pharmacists,
not a drug company. When companies make medicines it's called manufacturing.
When pharmacists make them it's called compounding. Drug companies
make most of their money on patented medicines. The most easily
defended patents are structural patents, which actually have to
do with the molecular structure of the medicine. T3
is a naturally occurring substance and has been on the market for
over 50 years. No company can get a structural patent on it. Even
if a company made a sustained release T3, another company
could make a different kind of sustained release T3.
Compounding is a lot
more fun for a lot of pharmacists than simply counting manuafactured
pills from the drug company (which is how pharmacy has turned out
for most pharmacists). Compounding can be more profitable, too,
since drug companies are continually squeezing down the profit margins
for pharmacists. More and more pharmacists are taking an interest
in compounding. Compounding is not new but it is making a comeback.
However, pharmacists don't often get a lot of training in compounding
in pharmacy school, and very few pharmacists have acquired much
experience in it. And, it's probably fair to say that there are
a lot more pharmacists starting to compound than there are that
are very good at it. As you can imagine, good compounding requires
specialized techniques, equipment, and experience.
We've heard for years
that some patients don't do very well on medicine made by some pharmacists and then do much better when they take medicine made
by the pharmacists at Medaus Pharmacy in AL (800-526-9183) (Medaus has been a nationally
prominent compounding pharmacy for many years and the pharmacists there have been compounding
T3 for over a decade).
Taken Properly
You will need a doctor to prescribe the T3 mixed with
a sustained release agent. You might try a doctor on our list of
physicians who say they're willing to treat Wilson's Temperature Syndrome,
or you can work with your own doctor.
There are some wonderfully
knowledgeable, capable, and caring physicians out there. But these
days, we recommend that patients be informed and in charge of their
own health care. You may have more time to read. You have more of
a vested interest. There probably is no doctor or pharmacist that
cares about you and your loved ones as much as you do.
Obviously
many patients are getting excellent results. It seems that the best
results are coming from the doctors who are following the principles
in the Doctor's Manual most closely. However, some doctors tell
patients that they are treating WTS according to the protocol in
the Doctor's Manual, when they're not. Sometimes their treatment
of patients is actually contrary to the principles presented in
the Manual. The doctors may not have actually read the Manual, they
may have forgotten, they may be guessing, they may be disagreeing,
or even perhaps deceiving. It's great that doctors have their own
ideas about the way patients should be treated, but it's discouraging
when they say Dr. Wilson said so. Dr. Wilson wrote the Doctor's
Manual as much for patients as he did for doctors so that patients
would be able to see what they were getting.
Based
on what some doctors have said, even doctors who treat WTS are more
likely to treat you for it if you have already read the Doctor's
Manual and are wanting to try the treatment. Some doctors have said
that if a patient comes in who has read the Manual thoroughly and
really wants to try the T3 according to the protocol,
they are more inclined to treat them. However, when patients come
in without knowing much about it, the doctor might not be as inclined.
When doctors consider
treatment approaches, they consider the pro's and con's for the
patient and themselves. If the patients aren't knowledgeable, the
treatment may not work as well, and the patients may have more problems.
Also, there are other approaches that may not be as powerful or
promising but may not be as time-consuming to explain to the patient.
So a doctor may be inclined to try a few simpler things first, before
resorting to spending time educating the patient. Of course, these
"few other things" can cost time and money and may not
work very well. Reading the Manual will increase your chances of
being treated for WTS first, rather than last.
There is too much to
the treatment of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome for it to be conveyed
adequately in a doctor's visit. Even if the doctor could cover it
all, studies show that patients remember very little of what doctors
tell them. Inevitably, bits and pieces will be left out. The treatment
of WTS is like a jigsaw puzzle, it's simple but you don't want to
leave pieces out. Just one piece of information that's left out
could end up costing you a month of medicine, time, travel, money,
and disappointment. Knowing what you're doing from the start can
increase your chances for the quickest possible response at the
lowest possible price, while providing you more peace of mind. You
may have a simple question, but if you don't know, you don't know.
And how easy will it be to get the doctor on the phone? At night?
On the weekend? On a holiday? There's a lot of comfort in knowing
more about what you're doing.
The Doctor's
Manual thoroughly explains the treatment of Wilson's Temperature
Syndrome (the manual is described in more detail in the store).
Most doctors who are treating WTS heard about it from their patients,
and then the doctors read the Doctor's Manual. If your doctor reads
the Doctor's Manual s/he will probably know more about the successful
treatment of WTS overnight, than s/he would by treating it for two
years without reading the Manual (here's a handy Patient Orientation Sheet as well).
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