Dr Amir Khan
speaker
9,955 appearances
22 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Dr Amir Khan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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High thyroid hormones, low thyroid stimulating hormone.
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We'll figure out the cause of it if we can, whether it's autoimmune or not.
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Um, but then I have to give them a couple of things.
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First of all, we generally start them on a group of drugs called beta blockers, which people with heart conditions might know it slows the heart down.
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Because they're having these fast palpitations, we need to slow their heart down because their heart could get knackered, they could go into heart failure.
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Uh that's a real um risk.
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Um so we need to
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take the pressure off the heart.
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And then we give them a drug usually called carbimazole, which is a drug that blocks some of the thyroid production.
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Um it's not brilliant, but it's a stopgap until they see an endocrine or hormone specialist.
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So I will refer them all to see an endocrine specialist.
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The people with an underactive thyroid don't need to.
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It's only those with an overactive thyroid because generally
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The options then for long-term management because the carbonazole, some people are on it long-term, but generally it's a it's it's kind of a keeping the peace until they see someone about a more long-term solution.
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Then it's radioactive iodine, so that blocks the production of thyroid hormone, or surgery to remove all or part of the thyroid, and then they go on to thyroxy.
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Wow.
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hormone to replace the hormone that's lost.
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I I don't know whether comfortably or happily is the right approach because it is major surgery.
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