Clinical Practice Tips
Patient Education and Support
It’s helpful for the patient to understand the commitment of time, money, and adherence to the protocol that is required. It is also very helpful to collect a list of names and phone numbers of patients that you have successfully treated with the WT3 therapy who would be willing to discuss their treatment with new patients. Successfully treated patients are often happy to provide this assistance. This is perhaps the best tip in this entire guide. These patients can often provide invaluable support to other patients. They have the desire, time, and personal experience to help other patients feel more comfortable with the protocol.
It would also be helpful for you to have a list of patients who were “fast compensators.” Fast compensators are often the most difficult patients to treat, and they can benefit from moral support. You can also keep track of those patients who were cured of various symptoms. For example, you could have a new patient that has migraines call a patient who was cured of migraines. You can match up the circumstances of new patients with those patients who have done well with the treatment. This is an excellent way to encourage hope, determination, and compliance. What patient support is available?
There are many patients who have completed the treatment who are willing to share their experiences with others, as recorded on the Wilsons Temperature Syndrome website (www.wtsmed.com).
Doctor Confidence
Doctor confidence is extremely important with WT3 therapy since success depends on patient compliance. Patient compliance largely depends on doctor confidence.
Some doctors say all their patients get better and some doctors say none of their patients get better. Many doctors get frustrated because they say they have tried the treatment for 6 months or a year and their patients don’t get their temperatures up. But many doctors aren’t adequately familiar with the protocol, and consequently, neither are their patients. For example, doctors often don’t cycle up (increase the dosage) every day. And many doctors don’t know that patients can wean off T3. Some doctors think T3 has to be taken indefinitely. They don’t understand why they might want to use T3 as opposed to Armour. They’ll put their patients on T3 along with Armour thyroid. A lot of these patients won’t get better as quickly, completely, or permanently as they would with WT3 alone. WT3 therapy and WTS Medicines are designed to make patients feel completely well when off the treatment.
It’s true that some doctors use the protocol correctly and still have a challenging time with it. It’s possible that the first ten patients a doctor sees will be fast compensators. If doctors are following the protocol correctly and the temperatures are not going up, then they might try going up by 3.75 mcg or by 7.5 mcg every 12 hours and/or adding ThyroCare. After 3 months, if the temperature still hasn’t come up, one might consider other issues (such as the patients’ progesterone or adrenal levels, diet, etc). Some patients may just need several cycles of the therapy. Out of 100 people, there will be a handful that might respond after six or nine cycles, or even a year of cycles, or more.
Exploring Options
When patients are willing to do the work and their doctor is willing to give them different options (such as the ones below), almost everybody is very happy with the results. Occasionally you might have to try something different. Some patients just don’t respond in the typical fashion.
For example, one of my patients was on Synthroid for ten years and never felt well. Then she went to Armour thyroid and never felt well. Then she cycled up and down on T3 for 6 months and her temperature never went up. She complained that “T3 doesn’t help me. T4 doesn’t help me and my temperature never goes up.” So he asked her, “When you’re cycling up and down, is there a time when you feel good?” And she said, “I feel pretty good at 22.5.” She stayed at 22.5 for ten days. She came back and she said that she had lost ten pounds and that it was the first time in ten years that she felt well. She was able to stay up the whole day without complaints. She is now taking 22.5 mcg BID of T3 indefinitely.
Another technique to try on patients whose temperatures are not coming up on WT3 is to leave them on a plateau at the top of a cycle for weeks. Dr Stephen Leighton MD feels that this can more fully deplete RT3 and reset the system more effectively than waiting only 3 days between cycles. He feels this often helps patients capture their temperatures on subsequent cycles.
Sometimes patients respond well to the supplements before or after discontinuing the T3
It looked like WT3 therapy was not working for one patient, so she was weaned off and started on ThyroCare and Adaptogen. The supplements were enough to help her feel well. Another patient never tried the T3, but she did have a low temperature and mercury toxicity, and body temperature went up after DMSA treatment to remove the heavy metals..
One patient’s temperature went up on WT3 therapy but she still didn’t feel better. It turned out that she literally ate nothing but nutritional bars every day, and only ate about ten cooked meals a year (on holidays). For her the solution was as basic as diet.
