Many patients come to our clinic having been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS). This can be a painful and debilitating health problem closely associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Epstein-Barr Virus. The problem with FMS is that, until recently, medical science did not really have any idea what caused it, nor how to treat it.

Recent meta-analyses of many research studies have narrowed the playing field considerably. Study after study shows that there is a major link between the ability of your thyroid gland to produce a hormone called triiodothyronine (T3) and the incidence of FMS. At the Center for Hormone Therapy we always check the T3 level. Time after time we find low T3 levels in the FMS patients. T3 has the ability to send sufficient amounts of oxygen to all the muscles of the body. In FMS patients, it is as if the muscles are so starved of oxygen, the patient aches all over almost all the time. By restoring the T3 levels to an optimal range, we see dramatic improvements in the symptomatology of the FMS patient.

One other common complaint of the FMS patient is profound fatigue. Since the thyroid gland runs the metabolism of the entire body, we see that a low T3 level corresponds directly with the FMS patient who is complaining of constant fatigue. As the T3 level is optimized, the fibromyalgia lessens dramatically, and the energy levels improve.