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Can altitude increase the effect of thyroid medications? I recently hiked four days in the Grand Canyon and had an experience which felt like an overdose of my thyroid meds. I skipped a dose and all the symptoms went away, even after climbing another 3,000 feet. What's up?
Submitted by: Pat - Ortonville, MI
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Studies of the thyroid at higher elevations indicate you can expect a rise in the tyroid hormone thyroxine (T4). Whether or not the rise will effect you...
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