Re: Why doctors won't precribe Armour!!

[Guest guest]

That's absolutely the main reason my NP put me on such a low dose of

Armour...l/4 grain. She did an EKG on me that very first day I asked her for the

Armour in fact. After I was on 125mcg Synthroid for 5 years & likely my heart

was getting worse all that time, had chest pains in the past & been prescribed

nitroglycerine & told to take a baby aspirin every day. But no doctor ever cared

to put me on natural thyroid with T3 in it. Go figure!

Caroline

From: Betty Flager

This is just a thought that went threw my head. I think the reason

(maybe) they don't like to prescribe Armour is they are afraid the

patient might have a heartattack with too much t3. Then, the doctor

would not want to be liable for that patient.

This would not pertain to patients that cannot convert t4 to t3.

I'm probably wrong. Just my two cents worth.

[Guest guest]

The original GP I had said that Armour dosage was too unpredictable and could

vary. He said that improper amounts could damage muscles, and that included the

heart. He said the medication could be dangerous. Huh? I think that's

Synthroid that had recalls for improper dosage variances. :-) I think the

synthroid propaganda spreaders got to him. I found a new GP who thinks for

himself and is fine with Armour. In fact, one of the physicians in the office

prefers it. His wife is on it.

The way I found them is I went to my local pharmacy and asked the pharmacist if

they had anyone on Armour. He said yes. I then asked him for the names of the

doctors that prescribed it. He gave me the name of one of the doctors in this

office. I called, talked to the receptionist, and changed them to my primary

care physicians, and have been doing fine since. I had to see an

Endocrinologist for a Pituitary Tumor and he had that jaw set that said no

Armour, but he didn't even try to talk me out of it. He could see it was

futile. They did bloodwork and when I called for the results, the nurse said

she couldn't believe I was on Armour. My blood work was the best they'd ever

seen. :-) Oh, and the prolactin level was down and my pituitary tumor was

gone. Hmmmm, maybe the Armour helped? After all, the pituitary is what secrets

TSH and regulates the prolactin levels. :-) Maybe Armour does even more than

they know!

Joy

[Guest guest]

>>>I tried to get the endo to give Mom Armour, but at her age of 83 he is

>>>afraid of a 'rush' of T3 and says the hormone amount can't be controlled

>>>like it can with Synthroid and Cytomel. I finally convinced him to

>>>prescribe Cytomel, and he did - a paltry 5mcg. Well, we'll see what

>>>happens. Because of Mom's age, i'm afraid to push the issue. When I

>>>had my first appointment with him a few weeks ago, he freaked that I'm

>>>on 4gr Armour, but he is willing to listen to me and wait until the next

>>>round of blood tests to argue with me!

.....joan

wrote:

>>they don't like to prescribe Armour is they are afraid the

patient might have a heartattack with too much t3. <<

That might be true if they prescribed TOO much Armour, but not a correct

amount. Armour was prescribed for years without people having heart attacks.

I take SIX GRAINS a day and am in no danger of a heart attack. I also take

extra Cytomel with that six grains.. guess I should be dead instead of

feeling 20 years younger? Nope the reason they don;t prescribe it is

$$$$$$$ Forest doesn't pay them nearly what Synthroid does, and if we all

got well, where would their meal tickets be then?

[Guest guest]

Ask Dr. Dommisse why, although he STILL marches to the beat of a different

drummer. He was drug up in front of his medical board and cited, but most

of us know what it REALLY was about.

Why doctors won't precribe Armour!!

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>

> This is just a thought that went threw my head. I think the reason

> (maybe) they don't like to prescribe Armour is they are afraid the

> patient might have a heartattack with too much t3. Then, the doctor

> would not want to be liable for that patient.

>

> This would not pertain to patients that cannot convert t4 to t3.

>

> I'm probably wrong. Just my two cents worth.