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In a message dated 3/13/03 6:25:25 PM US Eastern Standard Time,

AtinaLee@... writes:

> One minute I am freezing

> and the next so hot.

>

Now I am always so cold! I would be lost without my electric blanket. I

sleep much more poorly if I don't have it!

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Topper soap and hot water irritte the skin and dermatologists will tell

you not to use these very often. It will make the itching worse.

I have found this to be true.

It sounds like you are doing the right thing with the temperture etc to

help your itching.

I can't do that because then my poor husband will freeze. So we try to

find a compromise. I wear think nightgowns and throw blankets off. I go

through so many body changes in temperatures. One minute I am freezing

and the next so hot.

I meant to ask you what exactly are you taking in natural remedies for

thyroid?

Also why not take the meds? I am wondering if these natural things are

making you itch more.

I had many natural rememdies that did this to me. I can't take most

natural herbs etc.

Anita

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I know soaking for long periods, over 20 minutes, in water and using

harsh soaps are very bad.. but the fluff taking off the dead skin and the

moisturizer has been helping me a lot...

I take a non prescription form of porcine thyroid.. I don't have

insurance and can't find a doc in this area that will see me without

several hundred dollars up front... so I can't get a prescription... last

July when I finally found the stuff that I'm taking now I'd not found a

source for prescription grade that would sell without a prescription...

They exist now.. in fact, there are several.. but the price for the

cheapest one is four times what I'm paying now.. simply not affordable

for me...

I agree that what I'm taking may not be the best.. but it is far better

than what I was on... 25mcg of synthroid taken one day a week... My

last prescription was for 200 mcg a day.. and I'm currently on 2 1/2

grains of the porcine.. so you can see that the 25 I was taking the one

day a week wasn't doing me a heck of a lot of good.. but that was all I

had and I was nearly out of that... I'm doing much better now.. been on

this stuff since July, last summer...

I've been dealing with the itching in increasing intensity/discomfort

since running out of meds 3 1/2 years ago.. since then I'd been getting

left over synthroid from friends and relatives and for a while from folks

that I was meeting on the internet.. but as their own dosages were

finally 'stabilized' they no longer had extra pills and even that feeble

source ended. So I know the itching isn't from what I'm taking now...

Good that you brought it up, though, just in case.... *smile*

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:24:48 -0500 (EST) AtinaLee@... writes:

> Topper soap and hot water irritte the skin and dermatologists will

> tell

> you not to use these very often. It will make the itching worse.

> I have found this to be true.

>

> It sounds like you are doing the right thing with the temperture etc

> to help your itching. I can't do that because then my

> poor husband will freeze. So we try to

> find a compromise. I wear think nightgowns and throw blankets off. I

> go through so many body changes in temperatures. One minute I am

> freezing and the next so hot.

>

> I meant to ask you what exactly are you taking in natural remedies

> for thyroid?

> Also why not take the meds? I am wondering if these natural things

> are making you itch more.

>

> I had many natural rememdies that did this to me. I can't take most

> natural herbs etc.

>

> Anita