Re: Naturopathy/Thyroidium?

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> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 13:56:03 -0000

>

> Subject: Re: Naturopathy/Thyroidium? ...and I guess

> this is sort of my introduction

>

> This forcing patients off tyroid to test if they

> really need it is

> so common among thyroid patients and so many of them

> seem to end up

> here with years of suffering from being taken off

> thyroid and many

> regrets. It's a God syndrome thing. Your new doctor

> thinks anybody

> before him was stupid and gave you something you

> wanted but didn't

> need.

Actually, he's the one that suggested I take Synthroid

because my levels were just barely normal (a few years

ago). Now I guess he figures my levels are " good

enough " or something. o_O

> I have heard of the hot and cold thing on the

> thyroid and there is

> some evidence it can help the thyroid put out more

> hormone. But, it

> is all a waste of time if you have auto-immune

> thyroid disease,

> which the vast majority of women do. In this case,

> it is only going

> to worsen as you age no matter what you do, because

> the thing that

> put it in motion cannot be easily reversed. It has

> to do with how

> the immune system works. Once it gets the idea that

> your thyroid

> tissue is foreign, it is very difficult for it to

> forget. Chronic

> Auto-immune thyroid disease can be cured in about

> 11% of patients by

> adequate thyroid therapy for 6 to 8 years. This is

> because it lowers

> auto-antibodies over time by taking the subject of

> their attack

> (thyroid hormone producing cells) out of the

> picture. Eventually,

> the auto-antibodies that were programmed to attack,

> die off and

> there is little thyroid activity to keep the newly

> produced cells

> holding on to and needing the information to attack.

Thank you for the info on auto-immune disease. I asked

for my thyroid antibodies to be tested along with free

T3, T4 and TSH to cross-reference. He put that down

(and several other unrelated things I couldn't read

for good measure, I guess). Yesterday, the lab told me

I have to get my doctor to tell them to give me a copy

of my test results or they won't give them to me

directly. (So I get no chance to review them and know

what I want to say before seeing my doctor again in

person?) I called my doc's office today and was told

to call back again once they have the results (Friday)

and ask again that day. If I'm lucky I can get the

labs on Saturday...

> Anyway, you can treat yourself. It is not rocket

> science. You can

> purchase Natural Armour thryoid from MyRxForLess

>http://www.myrxforless.com/pharmacy/product-results.asp

> or IAS

> online

> http://www.antiaging-systems.com/a2z/home1.htm and

> others.

I'm in Canada and a little spoiled by free doctors and

my group benefits plan at work covers 80% of drugs so

thyroxine tends to be about $3-ish to $12-ish,

depending on how many pills I get at once. CDN$50 for

100 (did the math on costs from myrxforless), while

over twice the cost, isn't so bad, though, since it

seems I may actually get the relief I need. I'm gonna

see what my lab results (and doc) say and take it from

there.

> untill you go past that. If you have low adrenal

> problems, you will

> get hyper symptoms on lower doses. This just means

> you have to go

> more slowly with increases and that you may need an

> adrenal

> glandular like IsoCort to help support your adrneals

> for a while.

> Thyroid hormone puts and extra burden on them and

> they need time to

> build their strength or support before making more

> thyroid increases.

I'm getting the impression low-adrenal fatigue must

come up a lot for people switching/adjusting

medications. I remember someone's post on this group

or possibly the " hypothyroidism " yahoo! group about

feeling weak and as though s/he had the flu. I feel

like that now! I was off synthroid all last week and

started again on Friday. Since yesterday, I've felt

beat to a pulp and dead tired. I'm hoping I get over

the stiff, weak muscles soon enough to move next week!

=

Thanks for your help, Tish!

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> I'm in Canada and a little spoiled by free doctors and

> my group benefits plan at work covers 80% of drugs so

> thyroxine tends to be about $3-ish to $12-ish,

> depending on how many pills I get at once.

Understandable!! But the wellness and energy you will get on Armour

is far more important than the savings you get on Thyroxine!! )

Be sure and get your Ferritin tested. It's low in many hypo folks

and can cause not only hypo-like symptoms (fatigue, depression,

weakness, achiness, etc) but can also make it seem like you have

adrenal issues when you try to raise your Armour, when in fact, you

have low Ferritin issues.

Janie