Guest guest Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 I am wondering if the reason doctors don't want to prescribe more than 2 grains of armour to suppress the thyroid is because if they give too much then your thyroid will quit working all together (you know the use it or lose it theory). & amp;nbsp; So they give enough to stimulate your own thryoid into production....Dr Atkins said that after treatment some people can make their thyroid well again....(I'm sure that is a small number) and can go off of the thyroid meds. Boy that would be nice! & amp;nbsp; But my little experiment with the OTC glandulars showed me that I'm not one of the lucky ones!~ Blessings, Loriann > This is what baffles me the most. & amp;nbsp; WHY did they decide to ignore > symptoms and focus only on TSH, if the old system was working just > fine? & amp;nbsp; It doesn't make sense to me. & amp;nbsp; Did they have a bunch of > people > with increased morbidity/mortality on Armour the old way, or > something? & amp;nbsp; Usually there is a reason things happen, and I'm trying > to figure out why there was such a radical change when the TSH came > into being. > > The one thing I keep coming back to is marketing. & amp;nbsp; Armour doesn't > market, doesn't have the budget to, but Synthroid has tons of > money. & amp;nbsp; And doctors just like any other human being are susceptible > to marketing, am I right? & amp;nbsp; And Synthroid has the market on both TSH > tests and synthetic T-4 production. & amp;nbsp; > > Gentle > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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