One does not treat the hyperthyroid but the cat's general health. Yes I have helped owners treat their cats diagnosed as hyperthyroid.
The cases can be quite frustrating, the condition has nasty effects and the methimazole drug in common use has even worse ones. The case then is frequently complicated by drug damage, and tricky tosupport at the start.
It seems to take a considerale time to come right, going through the FIbonacci series using the ICT remedy (genetically matched Innate Constitutional Type remedy) and also handling any specific aspects that arise in the individual case (eg heart problems in a 17 year old overweight male and inteerstitial lung infections in a thin female) then quite suddenly the cat gets well and refuses all remedy, looking at owner as if they are nuts to offer it.
Another joy of working with cats....
Now I do not define well as "a normal T4" but as a cat who is healthy and eating and behaving normally, with no apparent health issues.
I do not know. (Owners did not get blood tests once the cat was healthy.)
I do not consider T4 very important. It is an inactive hormone.
The active thyroid hormone is T3, not T4, and it needs to be genuine active T3, not reverse T3, as when stress hormone causes conversion of T4 to inactive T3.
So far owners only got blood tests during remedy use to monitor progress, which was not consistently in line with T4, but was consistenty moving in the overall right direction based on health and behavior. (i.e. If you looked at the total blood test results you could see improvements, but not necessarily in the T4.)
Fist other things would come right (different things in different cats). One has to look at it as a whole. Homeopathy does nothig with the T4. It heals the cat's body - which means ALL the issues it has, and which may need to heal in the reverse order in which they went wrong, or at least in the order according to most critical internal organs first, followed by less critical....and thyroid IS less critical.
The heart for example, is much more critical, and the cat I mentioned with a bad heart issue healed that first, at which point T4 was NOT normal, it was actually higher at that point, but the cat was doing far better, not lying about any more, but active and socailly involved again - telling other cats the boss was back etc ....
So since then the thyroid issues have come right, he no longer has polydipsia, poyuria, and hunger issues, does not need to eat all day etc - HIS hyperthyroid symptoms went away and metabolism (behavior, eating, urinating, etc) clearly looks to be in a normal mode.
It seems to take time, and has felt frustrating at times in some cats with serious symptoms other than hyperthyroid ones - as those need to be part of the big picture. The client tends to focus on T4 when really it is a small part of the issue....as if the body just had the last straw that finally broke the cat's thyroid and that got attention when more serious other issues were left for longer, possibly undetected.
Cats with recent hyperthyroid that has no clear chronic underlying issues, tend to heal faster, but I mostly see cases where underlying chronic severe issues are there too....makes me think hyperthyroid is often an emergency mechanism after the system can not heal some other deeper issue.
Invisible deep issues in cats are many: Heart (congestive or dilated cardiomopathy or thickened walls) , Lungs (longterm bordetella bronchhiseptica - a silent pneumonia in cats and sheep) , liver damage (toxic foods cause it), kidneys (from plant proteins, fruit/veg/herbs), compromised blood (from eating fruit/veg/herbs with saponins) for starters. Hyperthyroid will not come right while these more major systems malfunction and need repair first.
Hope this discussion helps?
Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
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