Re: I got the Armour, but the Endo was pretty nasty to deal with . . .

[Guest guest]

On 1/4 grain of Armour 2 times a day in 2 months you will likely feel worse

than you do now, and my suspicion is that is exactly what this Endo wants.

Then she can say " I told you so " or " I warned you " and put you back on

Levoxyl. I have never heard of anyone starting on that low a dose and even

if they did, within 2-4 weeks it should be raised, the sooner the better.

*Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV

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[Guest guest]

>The Endo told me how dangerous Armour is, how unreliable the Free

>T3 tests are; and how TSH is how they manage throid issues now --

>and how wonderful and reliable that test is.

GAG. URP. UPCHUCK. VOMIT. The above line has earned a place in our

GIVE ME A BREAK folder in the FILES section.

You may be a candidate to self-treat. As mentioned by , you

WILL start to feel worse in about 2-3 weeks on such a paltry dose.

If your situation was mine, I'd order from myrxforless.com

immediately---a LOT of one grain tabs. Or...I'd run to the nearest

pharmacist, ask who prescribes Armour, and CALL immediately for an

appointment. Or go the LINKS section where you will find the ARMOUR

LOCATE-A-DOC.

Your Endo is an idiot. Don't waste your time.

And.....you get a HUGE GOLD STAR for being SUCH A GOOD PRO-ACTIVE

PATIENT!!! WE are our own best advocates!! And if you were my

neighbor, I'd be over there in an hour with a fresh batch of fudge,

if you wanted it. )

Janie

[Guest guest]

The below ridiculous, nauseating comment is now #17 in our GIVE ME A

BREAK folder in the FILES section. Janie

> >The Endo told me how dangerous Armour is, how unreliable the Free

> >T3 tests are; and how TSH is how they manage throid issues now --

> >and how wonderful and reliable that test is.

>

> GAG. URP. UPCHUCK. VOMIT. The above line has earned a place in our

> GIVE ME A BREAK folder in the FILES section.

[Guest guest]

Joan, the more I read in here the more I'm sure that is the exact scenario for

most dr's who don't know. They will give it if we beg them to, maybe, or if we

swear we won't take a T4 supplement, forcing them to, but in the end, it's just

not going to work, because there will always be a dr at the other end of the

scope who's looking at TSH being suppressed, FT3 being too high, for their

comfort, not ours, and T4 that is too high in their books. Now, I've been

hyperThyroid, and I definately have Graves disease, I know what hyper is, and

what I'm feeling ain't hyper. It's normal, the way I used to feel many years

ago when I didn't have a 100 aches and pains, and carpal tunnel that the dr's

told me wasn't thyroid related. I have enuff proof by being made to live hypoT

for a year or better without anything but suppression drugs, they just can't

pull that on me anymore. I am really glad that the idiot did that to me,

because he made my decisions for me. I get crazy everytime I read a post that

asks: " does my TSH mean I'm hyper? " Trust me, when you are hyper, there is no

mistaking it.

I guess that's why I finally decided to just go it on my own. I felt great my

last appt with an Endo at the end of May, and the entire month of June, I

managed to help paint and pack up my son's house in Humble, after they'd moved

to Dallas. And that was after working full time every day, then I did it the

weekends too. That week on Levoxyl that I let her talk me into had me getting

back to square one in less than a week? Now, I'd love to amuse her, but I'm not

going to do that at my expense of feeling healthy and being able to live again.

Trust me, this wouldn't have ever happened without Armour. That is the one

thing I am sure of. I could hardly move without pain before I started taking

it, much less lose a lb, but boy, I could sure gain it, with no effort, or be

able to be on my feet for any length of time. Dr's just aren't all the are

cracked up to be, but that is just how I feel about them. You let them have all

these gnarly symptoms with no hope for anything better, and trust me, they will

be dosing with symptoms included, not just looking at TSH and saying oh Gee, I'm

hyper, gotta cut that dose. lol. They are clowns to me.

SandyE~Houston

Re: I got the Armour, but the Endo was

pretty nasty to deal with . . .

Sandy - this is so true. I talked my doctor into giving me Armour

because she had sent me to oodles of specialists who could not solve any of

my problems and she did not know what to do next. However........ she

started me on the dosage listed on the Armour website to convert from

$ynthroid. After the next blood test, and my TSH was lower, she declared

me 'hyper' and to DECREASE the Armour! I refused, and she said she was

'not going to be talked out of it.' So while I finished the Armour

prescription, I ordered from myrxforless and took matters into my own hands.