If these issues are not present, most
patients start feeling better, 3 - 4 weeks after starting therapy.
Not exact matches
I went in circles for years trying to fix thyroid problems and it wasn't until I was properly diagnosed with autoimmune thyroid disease and got on an immune balancing protocol (including gluten free, since 95 % of Hashimoto's
patients are gluten intolerant) that I finally
felt normal again - it only took a couple of weeks to
start feeling a lot
better!
Roughly half of the
patients who experience muscle pain after
starting a statin eventually begin to
feel better as their bodies become accustomed to the drug, says Dr. Phillips, and that could have occurred in the study participants.
That makes a really
good starting point in like, you know, I was maybe down for the count for day and a half to two days but I was still able to work 10 hour a day, see
patients, do my thing at home, cook, do all my stuff and I was still able to function even though I was
starting to
feel it because I hit it hard.
Additionally, most
patients feel so much
better when they
start on thyroid hormones when they have subclinical hypothyroidism.
And if we
start treating that first, then we may get the
patient feeling better, which then creates more compliance.
In addition to losing weight, many
patients that
start taking a combination T4 / T3 product often report that they
feel better as
well!
The most challenging thing for Type A
patients with adrenal fatigue is that the moment they
start feeling a little
better, they crank up the pace, which puts them right back where they
started.
Probiotics (when carefully chosen) appear to work quite
well when combined with enzymes however, and I first
started noticing that when I gave a
patient prebiotic supplements and digestive enzymes they would in most all cases comment how great they
feeled within a week, and that's when I also realised that it was time I made a supplement myself that combined both the
best probiotics, digestive (and systemic) enzymes yet without those pesky prebiotics — that people can access through foods them selves.
You can see results in as little as four weeks, but typically I expect
patients with chronic problems to begin to
feel good after several months, and after 6 months many should
start to
feel significantly
better than they have in a long time.
That's why I
started Parsley Health — a new hybrid model of health care that combines the functional medicine approach that makes more sense for
patients of all walks of life, with new care delivery models that both increase access to
better medicine for more people, and that let doctors practice the kind of medicine that makes them
feel good too.
I think all GP»S and Endocrinologists should read this book to help us
patients get our bodies back in to remission and
start to
feel well again.
Occasionally, we may recommend
starting even earlier than 7 if we
feel it
best for your
patient.