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What is the best treatment for thyroid?

Low thyroid treatment?

  • 9 yr old Golden Retriever on Soloxine for 1 month and while his energy level has improved his skin issues have gotten worse. He is practically bald on his sides and legs with dry patches and now his skin is peeling off in spots like when people get sunburn.. He eats home cooked beef,rice and veggies plus a fatty acid supplement. Just wondering if I'm being impatient waiting for the treatment to work or if it's not working the way it should. We go to the vet on Friday but looking for some insight. Thanks!

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    Whenever a dog starts a thyroid hormone supplement you need to do at least one, more often two or three followup checks for T4 or TGAA levels in the blood. This is because the free thyroid hormone fluctuates widely in healthy dogs throughout the day. If your dog is on any other meds sometimes these can influence the tsh levels, so doing a meds review with your vet is important before going forward with the thyroid diagnosis. Hair loss is common with low thyroid in the dogs (50% of the time) and takes 4-6 months to fill back in after treatment is started. I Hope your dog does well.

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Whenever a dog starts a thyroid hormone supplement you need to do at least one, more often two or three followup checks for T4 or TGAA levels in the blood. This is because the free thyroid hormone fluctuates widely in healthy dogs throughout the day. If your dog is on any other meds sometimes these can influence the tsh levels, so doing a meds review with your vet is important before going forward with the thyroid diagnosis. Hair loss is common with low thyroid in the dogs (50% of the time) and takes 4-6 months to fill back in after treatment is started. I Hope your dog does well.

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