RE: [_Chat] Fw: Does this sound familiar - NOW IT IS IN FILM

July 21, 2011

There were two rebuttals , one for Armour versus T4 only

and one for T4/T3 combination and you are correct for some of us, we need T3

only and titrating several times a day in very small doses.

I have passed this message on to the main thyroid forum.

Luv - Sheila

This is a very well written and informative article.

It is also extremely timely for me as I found out yesterday that my body

is no longer converting the T4 Synthroid properly as it has done very

efficiently and happily for the past 3 years. From the results it appears

the T4 is being converted but at a much lower percentage.

My Dr immediately put me on a combination of Synthroid and

Cytomel - it is too early to tell the affect yet but certainly hope that the

situation will improve. I know if it does not then I go straight back to

her to get straightened out. Thank God she is open to me talking to her

about different resolutions. Yesterday when she told me my results I

mentioned T3 and she immediately said Yes. (she's a gem)

I fully respect what you say about Armour but do believe

that for people like myself who are on extremely small doses per day (in

comparison with many) that Armour is over-kill. It may of course happen

one day that I indeed need it. But as we all know this bugger of a

disease can and often does affect people in different ways/degrees.

Anyways I just wanted to say thank you for all you do - you

too are a gem.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Sheila <sheila@...> wrote:

Hi Bill, I wrote

about this in my rebuttal to the British Thyroid Association's Statements on

T4/T3 combination therapy v L-thyroxine-only therapy and Armour Thyroid - v -

L-thyroxine-only therapy, where they got so many of their statements wrong, or

Luv - Sheila

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