Re: 3 months and little relief, advise please...

[Guest guest]

Hi Cindi!

What type of mag/zinc supplement? I'm scared to death about self

medicating with drugs from mexico. How do you have proof of what

drugs they are giving you are safe? I have health insurance and I

feel I should be getting the treatment I need. I'm going to persue

that first. But I will consider that even though it frightens me.

Thanks,

> In a message dated 10/20/2004 2:14:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> FlyingDreams@y... writes:

>

> > It's really

> > driving me nuts. I'm 37 and this is too young to feel this way!

> >

>

> at any age, it's not right to feel that way when help is

available. have you

> considered self-medicating. My first ENT was like your

doc...wouldn't give

> me more medication even though the Free T4 was still .77. I don't

know what

> kind of power trip they're on...but i don't have time for it. I

learned there

> was Armour available without a prescription from these forum

groups...and they

> taught me how to self-medicate...and it's probably the best

medical decision I

> ever made.

> Cindi

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi . I can only state that if your situation was mine, with

lousy docs whichever way I turned, I'd order more from rxforless.com--

-probably the one grain tabs. And when I got them, I'd get off the

Synthroid totally, and move up to 1 1/2 grains of Armour daily, split

into two doses....hold for a few weeks, then go up to 2 grains...and

hold for a few weeks, etc. until I started getting symptoms relief.

You cannot go by charts and weight, by the way. Bodies are simply too

different. But for comparison sakes, I used to be on .125 Levoxyl and

am now on an optimal dose of Armour at 3 1/4 grains.

Janie

>

> Hi Janie!

>

> How much more armour, what do you recommend? How can I convince

> another dr to give me more armour? I read for my weight 140 I

> should be on about 100 synthroid, so equal to that is what I'm on

> and I'm not getting relief. I have some cytomel (in 25 strength)

> that I could add to the armour, how much of that would you suggest?

>

> Thanks,

>

[Guest guest]

>I'm scared to death about self

> medicating with drugs from mexico. How do you have proof of what

> drugs they are giving you are safe? I have health insurance and I

> feel I should be getting the treatment I need. I'm going to persue

> that first. But I will consider that even though it frightens me.

, go to a large pharmacy near you. Ask to speak to the

pharmacist, then ask him/her what doc prescribes Armour in your area.

Or...go to a pharmacy farther from you, and do the same. Or...go to

the LINKS section of this site, click on the ARMOUR LOCATE-A-DOC

site, and see what's available in your zip code, or another zip code

near your own. I drive one hour and 20 minutes, mostly going 70 mph,

to mine, and it's worth it.

Janie

[Guest guest]

You will get over that quick enuff . lol. We all do. After you

spend years, looking for a dr who will attend to your health issues

with Thyroid, and getting tired of being medicated, but only enuff

medication to satisfy a dr, and not your symptoms.....yep, you'll

change the attitude. I don't read that many posts from people who

really find the good things in a Dr who isn't afraid of Armour. They

are fewer than one might think.

My armour is the same as if I bought it in the states from my local

walgreens. I just can't get a prescription for it here, so I buy name

brand Armour without a prescription via online. My other alternatives

are to become a vegetable type person and wait for a dr to 'decide'

that my issues need to be considered, along with symptoms and labs.

I've only had to deal with thyroid issues, officially, for 3 yrs, but

I've dealt with it much longer than that, without knowing for sure

that's what it was. I know now that I've lived it and started

learning. You will either find a dr, or you'll get fed up as some of

us have, and then you will do what you need to do for you. I had

insurance all this time, since my diagnosis, and it's never helped me

once.

SandyE~Houston

n Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:03:17 -0000

FlyingDreams@... wrote:

>

> Hi Cindi!

>

> What type of mag/zinc supplement? I'm scared to death about self

> medicating with drugs from mexico. How do you have proof of what

> drugs they are giving you are safe? I have health insurance and I

> feel I should be getting the treatment I need. I'm going to persue

> that first. But I will consider that even though it frightens me.

>

> Thanks,

>

>

>

> > In a message dated 10/20/2004 2:14:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> > FlyingDreams@y... writes:

> >

> > > It's really

> > > driving me nuts. I'm 37 and this is too young to feel this way!

> > >

> >

> > at any age, it's not right to feel that way when help is

> available. have you

> > considered self-medicating. My first ENT was like your

> doc...wouldn't give

> > me more medication even though the Free T4 was still .77. I don't

> know what

> > kind of power trip they're on...but i don't have time for it. I

> learned there

> > was Armour available without a prescription from these forum

> groups...and they

> > taught me how to self-medicate...and it's probably the best

> medical decision I

> > ever made.

> > Cindi

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Hi Janie!

I'm waiting on a top dr appointment in 8 wks. I should have my lab

work done in 2 wks, not 8. I'm going to a different dr in the same

practice since I could see him faster. But what I hear is they are

both slow to answer ?'s via the phone/nurse - 1 wk. I'm not happy

with that and the fact that they are leaving me with no help till 8

wks from now. I asked the pharmacy, she said she couldn't do a

search for a dr that prescribes armour, the computer isn't set up

for that.

Thanks,

>

> >I'm scared to death about self

> > medicating with drugs from mexico. How do you have proof of what

> > drugs they are giving you are safe? I have health insurance and

I

> > feel I should be getting the treatment I need. I'm going to

persue

> > that first. But I will consider that even though it frightens

me.

>

> , go to a large pharmacy near you. Ask to speak to the

> pharmacist, then ask him/her what doc prescribes Armour in your

area.

> Or...go to a pharmacy farther from you, and do the same. Or...go

to

> the LINKS section of this site, click on the ARMOUR LOCATE-A-DOC

> site, and see what's available in your zip code, or another zip

code

> near your own. I drive one hour and 20 minutes, mostly going 70

mph,

> to mine, and it's worth it.

>

> Janie