The answer is dependent on your interpretation of the differences between treatment and cured. While the cure is in the treatment, there isn’t really a cure per Se, but treatment normalizes the condition and if medication is maintained and the conditions monitored you might considered the problem and symptoms as being cured. Curing an underactive thyroid is to stimulate it to produce the proper amounts of hormones needed to obliterate the symptoms means to constantly medicate the thyroid.
A thyroid disease such as a cancerous thyroid can be cured by anti-thyroid medication, radioactive iodine, and surgery but once cured, typical underactive thyroid treatments must continue, usually indefinitely, to continue to keep hormone production up. In the case of a cancerous thyroid being removed, an external hormone treatment my begin and be maintained.
Hypothyroidism causes many symptoms that effect your quality of life. Depression, aches and pains, vision problems and a myriad of other symptoms of this disorder can be cured once there source is proven to be caused by a treatable underactive thyroid condition. Treatment is usually in the form of medications. Levothyroxine is the most commonly used medication.
Monitoring of levels becomes extremely important especially after drug therapies have been started since some dietary changes can drastically effect the way your body absorbs the thyroid medication. Advise your doctor if you are eating a lot of soy products or are on a high-fiber diet as these are trip points for absorption changes when treating an underactive thyroid.
