What Are Symptoms of Thyroid Problems?
10. What Is the Prognosis for Thyroid Conditions?
Although patients can reduce some of the symptoms of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism with diet and exercise, these conditions are often permanent and progressive. Treatment with medication and close monitoring helps manage these diseases with minimal symptoms. Medication to treat hypothyroidism comes in the form of synthetic hormones.
Subacute thyroiditis caught in earlier stages usually resolves over time. Some patients develop hypothyroidism if the thyroiditis advances into later stages and needs to be treated with medication permanently. Patients who develop thyroid tumors and have the thyroid surgically removed also need medication to substitute for the lack of hormones.
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