RE: Talked to my doctor today.....

[Guest guest]

Hooray, Caroline! So glad to hear you are doing some better. And so glad you

told your doctor just how it is!

in Va.

My doctor (nurse practioner really) called me this morning as she got the

recent blood test results I just had done. She only ordered T4 & TSH tho so

I figured those alone wouldn't do but went along with it anyway to see what

they'd show since I'm on way more generic Armour (l l/4 grains) now than

what she prescribed for me (30 mg).

She said the test results (specially TSH) showed I'm on way too much Armour

& wants to reduce my dosage. I told her I disagreed with her that it's

helping me & I'm just starting to feel better after going downhill major

bigtime after stopping the Synthroid in late October. Then I got worse on

only 15mg Armour that she prescribed Nov. 3rd & still feeling crappy.

She said she couldn't get just 15 mg so had to order the 30 mg but intended

to keep me on only l/2 pill or 15 mg. How ridiculous!! That's nothing!! If

I'd stayed on that low dose, I'd not even be able to get out of bed or be

coherent enough to talk on the phone as I was getting that much worse since

stopping the Synthroid three weeks ago.

I told her I gradually raised the generic Armour myself, & she wanted to

know where I bought it. So I told her...myrxforless online from

Mexico...Time Caps. She said I'd likely stay on this high dose & then crash

later because it's too much for my system. I disagreed with her again. So

we're not agreeing on much here.

Is this a government/doctor conspiracy or something? Are the doctors wanting

to know where patients are getting their own Armour so they can report it to

the authorities or what? I get very suspicious of these types of things ya

know?

I told her I had ordered the Time Caps generic Armour before I even went to

see her for the first time. She didn't like that. But I don't care. Then I

told her I'm feeling a bit better now & will continue on it & keep raising

my dose so we can discuss that later. And that I thought the TSH & T4

weren't enough to show the true improvement & that we should go by symptoms

instead.

Also told her I wanted more tests done before I see her again. For Free

T3/T4. Also for cortisol levels, ferritin, mercury toxicity & antibodies.

She agreed to those so will get them soon & she'll have the results when I

go to see her next so will get copies of those for myself too.

She asked me if I was having any hyperT symptoms & named them. I'm not

having a single one of them. But still am having hypoT symptoms. And

geez....l l/4 grains of Armour isn't very much either. It's not even

equivalent (l l/2 grains) to the 125mcg Synthroid I was on.

So why is she so adamant I should reduce my dose & insisting I'm going to

crash later? I don't get it. Why try to scare me like that? Heck I was

crashing badly on the paltry 15 mg Armour she prescribed. Why didn't she

take that into consideration?

But am I getting brave here or what? Must be getting better on the Armour I

think or I'd never have done this or talked to my doctor that way before. So

maybe I'm helping to educate her too? What a hoot!!

Caroline