FAQ/Medications
The nurse said something about the body being allergic to the thyroid hormone.
Sat, 30 Oct 2004
Question: Dear Dr. Roby, I saw you last week and you ordered a vial of thyroid drops administered before and after meals. What exactly are the drops supposed to achieve? The nurse said something about the body being allergic to the thyroid hormone. If my thyroid was removed what are we trying to achieve?
Dr Roby Responds:
We think some people have an allergic reaction to thyroid. In a new study I am conducting, I have the first few reports on patients who have not lost weight while taking what should be adequate amounts of thyroid. Over half have shown high levels of IgE to thyroid. This indicates an allergic reaction to the medication. If that takes place this renders the medicine less effective.So, I tried to "block" this reaction a a few paitents using thyroid dilutions just as we do for mold or progesterone. We are trying to make your thyroid medication more effective, less reactive. The patients began to see steady weight loss with no other change in their progrram.
Extreme anxiety, major depression, and fibromyalgia. Try Prometrium?
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Question:
Help! I am 37 and have been suffering for just over a year now from a multitude of physical, nuerological, psychological and emotional disorders. Once a busy, high energy career professional working toward a doctorate degree, I am now disabled. I have been to see numerous physicians in the last year as well as visiting health food stores for nutritional advise and vitamin and herbal recommendations. What started out as inner-ear vertigo following airtravel with a sinus infection and a bruise on the right eardrum, lead to being diagnosed with extreme anxiety, major depression, and fibromyalgia.
In addition, I feel that perimenapause is a problem. My menstral cycle is all out of wack and I have a cyst on an ovary. I have constant headaches, vertigo, insomnia and memory loss, hair thinning, withering skin, aches in my neck/back/shoulders and constant fatigue and no energy. I feel brain dead and unable to make simple decisions for myself. I have been tried on numerous anti-depressants and tranquiliers which have made matters worse. My ob/gyn wants me to try prometrium. I have seen my G.P., nuerologists (to rule out M.S. - MRI and ENG), psychiatrists, rhematologists, and an ob/gyn, I am now seeing specialists at Stanford in various departments. Right now I am only taking antivan 1 to .5 mil. to try to help sleep at night. Nuerotin (sp.) has been mentioned as a drug that may help with sleep at night as well as daytime anxiety.
Are there any safe vitamin/herbal remedies that you would recommend to try to help get my health back on the road to recovery? It seems that each drug tried has brought on a new set of problems - vertigo, nausea, etc. Thank you for your help to try to get my brain and body back to the land of the living!
Dr. Roby Answers:
Prometrium would be almost the worst drug you could take. The only one worse, in my experience, would be DepoProvera. They are both progesterones and I think you are reacting to that hormone.
Many of your questions relating to fatigue, perimenopause and other symptoms are addressed in my section on "Hormone Imbalance" on my website. Please read that section. Let me know how much of that material applies to you. I can then address your specific questions much more efficiently.
But I urge you, do NOT take any kind of progesterone until you have read this.
Fibromyalgia, weight gain, and Depo-provera.
Monday, October 21, 2002
Question:
Fibromyalgia-65lb.weight gain in 3 mos. from one depo-provera shot 7 yrs. ago, fatigue, pain cramping from tongue to toes,periods every 12-18 days,asthma,chest pains,blurred vision,dizziness,numbness in extremities,yeast and cystitus,no sex drive,weakness,confusion,memory problems.
As you see by my many symptoms(too many to list)and my diagnosis of Fibromyalgia by my rheumatologist I too fit the poster child for your studies.My doctor put me on Elavil,which worked great for the pain,but if I didn't fall asleep before it kicked in at night I would be up all night.If I did fall asleep in time,when I wake in the morning I am drugged up and that continues all day.I am afraid to drive my son to school.I have been put on Paxil,wellbutrin,flexeril,by other doctors in the past for all different reasons and I crawled out of my skin.I don't feel depressed,just over-whelmed.This all started when I recieved the birth control shot Depo-provera, immediately I gained 65lbs.,all body fluids dried up,and I began to experience pain all over.(I assumed from the weight gain). Now 7 yrs.later over 20 new symptoms have arrived, and my quality of life is 0. Please tell me step by step what I should do to regain the life that I am missing!!!!
Dr. Roby Answers:
This is the nastiest drug I've ever dealt with. My whole premise is that ladies react allergically to their own progesterone (PMS, weight gain, fibromyalgia, etc.,). Then along comes Dr. John and injects MORE progesterone (and a long-acting, long-lasting one at that). No wonder these patients have such horrendous problems.
My tests and treatments are outlined in the section on "Hormone Imbalance". There is a section at the beginning of the website for physicians who wish to download the Protocol I use to treat this.
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